Posted on 06/22/2006 9:39:26 AM PDT by WestTexasWend
Three is a little young to begin frying. Especially with 9 adult doses.
Whoever sees acid these days but boy did it make high school and college (and movies) interesting!
Seems like the mom did the right thing once he started behaving weirdly. Unless I missed it, she didn't know he'd taken some doses.
Somethings smells about this story. "LSD laced candies", in particular SweetTarts? I've never heard of such a thing. I've only ever seen acid on blotter or in microdots (very tiny pills), and in the days of old in gelatin ("windowpane") or powdered form. Can't really imagine someone going to the trouble of making candies out of it. I suspect something else going on and this is the best explanation they could come up with.
Based on the info given here, I don't think the child should have been taken from her. It's plenty traumatic to a child to be taken away from its mother and familiar home, and in all likelihood a lot more damage is being done to the child by taking him, than would occur if he was left with his mother. She needs to learn to exercise better judgement in choosing her friends (and most likely will, if she's the sort of person who has no record of arrests, much less convictions), but the criminal here is the guy who left LSD laced candies lying around in an apartment with a child roaming around. If this had been a huge house, he might not have known that a child had been brought in, but it's just not plausible that he didn't know in an apartment.
The state taking a child from its parent(s) is a VERY serious matter, and should only be done in the most extreme situations. And for borderline cases, where the facts are really fuzzy and the parent(s) might be really dangerous but also might be perfectly innocent, the relevant agencies should be equipped to bring the parent(s) and child(ren) TOGETHER to a supervised living facility, to avoid separation trauma to the child(ren).
all you would do is put a drop on the candie it was done with sugar cubes also.
"Ma'am, why didn't you call for help after your little boy started hallucinating?"
"Serves the little bastard right. He ate my stash."
Sorry, can't agree.
It was her responsiblity to go into the apartment and check for hazards before letting "another adult" take her toddler inside. And the minute "Steven" told her of his suspicions about the missing candy, she should have taken the child to an ER or called 911...not gone home and pieced together a story. Thank God a friend called 911.
Since she failed to do these things...and until/unless she learns to do better...someone else needs to watch over the boy.
Let me guess, you work for Texas CPS.
If it only requires a droplet, it could be applied to SweeTarts.
If there was no reason for the mother to believe that the candy had been "electrified" then she should be let off.
"all you would do is put a drop on the candie it was done with sugar cubes also"
OK, but that would require that you start off with LSD in an aqueous solution, something only a manufacturer of LSD is likely to have, and they are very few and far between, the making of LSD requiring fairly sophisticated chem lab knowledge. Given how harsh the penalties are in the US for making or trafficking LSD, why would you then put it on something as big as a SweeTart when 20 or 30 microdots would fit in the same space, or even more blotter? Did the cops get any of these SweeTart candies with LSD on them? Personally I suspect someone gave the kid LSD on purpose, you know, just for fun to see what would happen.
I guess - and this is just a theory - that one could take liquid LSD and drop it onto Sweet Tarts, which might be porous enough to absorb it.
Someone needs to tell Ashli that a) her parents are morons and b) it's spelled Ashley.
So can Black Sabbath
Game Show Host: Here's a question I ask of all our contestants: what made you drop out?
Bob Bitchin': A lot of people think it was the 400 Acid trips I took, you know?
Game Show Host: Uh-huh...but what was it really, Bob?
Bob Bitchin': One day I played Black Sabbath at 78 speed, man.
Game Show Host: Black Sabbath - And then what happened?
Bob Bitchin': I saw God, man.
Intensive care sounds awful curious too. An antipsychotic medication and physical restraints should be all that would be needed until the drug had worn off. Also -- a mental hospital rather than a medical hospital would have staff more knowledgeable about this sort of thing.
See my previous post - I've never seen or even heard of anyone having liquid LSD. It is possible, of course, and even if the candy didn't absorb it very far (SweetTarts are pretty solid, not like a sugar cube), the standard 100 microgram dose of LSD doesn't take up very much space - that's a tenth of a milligram, a very tiny amount (LSD is a very potent substance). But to repeat myself, the only form I ever saw or heard of anyone having LSD in was blotter or microdot. It's been many years since I had any contact with the stuff though, so things may have changed (what I mostly hear is that LSD has pretty much disappeared altogether - the penalties for producing or trafficking it are very harsh, and the precursor chemicals are not common and are closely watched by law enforcement).
SweeTarts might be easier to handle by a tripper, is the only thing I can think of.
Uh...Ashli looks Caucasian to me, so NO.
My views aren't based on her race, they're based on her actions.
Stick the dots to the candies using something like corn syrup?
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