2 sentenced for sharing marijuana with toddler

The Columbus Distpatch ^ | Friday, November 15, 2002 | The Associated Press

[Printers Angel]

ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) -- A woman has been sentenced to three years of probation for smoking marijuana with her 2-year-old nephew.

Her friend was sentenced to four months in jail, three years of probation and 30 days in a work-release program. He is accused of rolling the pot and getting high with the toddler.

Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Mark Betleski said he gave Terrence Craig, 22, of Elyria, a harsher sentence than Danielle Wells, 22, because of previous run-ins with the law.

In September, Wells -- who now lives in Columbus -- was convicted of corrupting and assaulting the toddler, Khairee Davis. Craig was found guilty of the same offenses and additional count of corrupting another person -- a 14-year-old neighbor -- with drugs.

Police said that in August 1999, Wells and Craig were in Wells' apartment with the boy and his baby sitter, Steven Rand, now 17, and that all three took turns smoking a cigar filled with marijuana.

When Khairee's mother, Tanika Davis, returned to the apartment, she found him slumped on the floor and took him to the hospital. His urine tested positive for the drug.

Wells and Craig both maintain they are not guilty. Khairee now lives with his father.

Betleski said he considered testimony during the trial that the child was familiar with marijuana. The fact that Khairee "just took it and toked it'' showed he was familiar with the process, the judge said.

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At the same time the number of people machine gunned to death over alcohol went to near zero.

[Skooz]

It's clearly an act of poor parenting, as giving a toddler alcoholic beverages would be

I agree. It's a criminal act of child abuse.

Really didn't need pinged for the usual character attack-straw man routine.

I don't have a clue what that means. :)

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

On the Rob Nelson Show this morning is parents who do drugs with their kids.

On right now is a mom who was smoking pot and her teenage son decided that he wanted to do with her. So they do it just about every single day together. Thank goodness the host said " Well that makes you a pothead, doesn't it".

Dr Drew is on explaining how pot effects memory, the growth of the right lobe of the brain which does not help a person mature ( that makes sense, think of all the potheads you know) and it makes it very difficult to learn in school.

Now the mother is saying that she doesn't advocate alcohol abuse or drug abuse, but sees nothing wrong with pot. I want to smack her upside the head.

One out of 5 admissions for drug dependency rehab is for pot.

[wardaddy]

We had a cat Lucifer ...black of course....who had the habit of finding dropped Stanley panes in the shag carpet.....that damned cat lived to be 20 or so.

All early 70s memory lane sh!te aside....it is very very wrong for parents to introduce drugs to any children much less toddlers. Somebody comes to a dinner party at my house and they must light a fatty ...they go outside. No heavy drinking either.

Never thought I'd be so "unenlightened" in middle age about getting high when I mused about it 30 years ago but I always knew better than to give kids dope. I remember even at 17 or so seeing some 6th graders smoking herb and thinking even then that something was quite amiss with that.

The only exception I would make about drugs for little children is paregoric. By G-d, the parents of today like me could sure use that little colic/ear ache miracle reliever. You have to literally get on your knees today and beg a pediatrician to dose pain meds to your children. It's like they are either damned scared or just think tylenol will cure any ache. Shame.

[Skooz]

Well then that's all the proof you need to know that Dr. Drew is on the DEA payroll.

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.. Watch and see, that WILL be the accusation very soon.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Well then that's all the proof you need to know that Dr. Drew is on the DEA payroll.

If he stated the opposite, would that be all the proof that we need that he is on the pro drug legalization payroll?

[Skooz]

It was sarcasm. Calm down. We're all friends here.

[Lassiter]

If he stated the opposite, would that be all the proof that we need that he is on the pro drug legalization payroll?

Nope, because all those folks are altruistic, upstanding people who have absolutely no selfish reason to legalize pot (especially reasons like being potheads themselves).

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[AxelPaulsenJr]

Calming down, sorry!

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It's like they are either damned scared or just think tylenol will cure any ache.

An FDA review found more than 56,000 emergency room visits a year due to acetaminophen overdoses, about a quarter of them unintentional -- and about 100 deaths.

Looks like Tylenol is far more dangerous than say, Marijuana.

[Texaggie79]

Oh yeah, because we all feed our toddlers alcohol don't we?

[tacticalogic]

Look for more of this when pot becomes legal.

And the spread of Christianity is going to result in many more deaths from snakebite, and ingesting rat poison.

[wardaddy]

Chronic pot use (stoned daily for hours for years) does indeed impair many people who delude themselves into thinking all is ok and gonna work out.

I have close friends and family now in their 2nd and 3rd and even 4th decade of serious dread-like daily consumption and their lives have gone virtually nowhere...and they still cling to delusions of grandeur and a lot of "I'm not responsible for my own fcuk-ups" mantra.....

I do indeed though know a very successful attorney and another gent who's quite a real estate developer who smoke daily in the evenings and do quite well. They are the exceptions.

I'm not here to bash occasional herb smokers...that's not my business but chronic dope smoking is sort of like chronic alcoholism but much much more subtle in it's debilitation. That's what makes heavy pot use so deceptively seductive. I know, I smoked it for about 12 years daily..it slowed me down a bit then. I'm glad I gave it up....I sort of just outgrew it....I always knew I would one day.

[Skooz]

In the late 1970s-early 1980s, my best friend Charles had this great Boxer named Boogy. Boogy could smell pot a mile away. If we walked in the house and one of us had it in a pocket (which was all the time), Boogy would let out one of those disgusted Boxer noises (Boxer owners know which one I am talking about), and would leave the room. He hated pot.

But, one day Charles gave Boogy a shotgun, and Boogy became an instant pot-junky. We had to start leaving our pot in the car before we came in the house because Boogy had a habit of running up to us and sniffing our pockets where he knew the pot should have been. If he could smell it, he would drive us crazy until we gave him a shotgun, if we didn't have any, he would walk away in a jones.

[Saundra Duffy]

I suppose they thought it was funny to subject a baby to that crap! This is infuriating. These are the same kind of people who torture kittens. May they be gored by a love-crazed YAK!

[Skooz]

I have to agree with you. I have no idea what the effects (if any) of occasional pot smoking are because I was a chronic user from the first time I smoked it until I stopped 11 years later. I had some very significant side effects that lasted for years after, and some of which have not gone away completely though I haven't smoked any since Feb 1988. But then, I was smoking a lot of pot every day.

[wardaddy]

Overdosage wise there is no doubt that acetominophen is more dangerous than pot. I once upon a time consumed enormous quantaties of pot and hash. The worst was eating pot or hash cooked in huge quantities like 1/4 -1/2 oz at a time. The high lasted for too damned long and the internal dialogue "runaway train" aspect was sort of like Sydney but from what I found you can only get so high on pot and the higher one's tolerance effects that.

I suppose if one could eat 1/2 pound of good sense bud cooked in a cake then one would approach levels of dire toxicity wherever they exist. With pot, the first few inhalations in your life may zonk you nicely but within days or weeks your tolerance will start rising. I know folks today who cannot even get a buzz on anything less than the most esoteric hydro-roid weed to be found.

My most profound experience from smoking cannabis was some old black nepalese hash balls back in 75 or so.....made me puke (the only time) and I felt like I had a lead weight in my head.....they may have been laced though. A petro-worker pal of mine brought them back in his sneakers....about 1/4 gram was all it took....it was Christmas i remember......barely...lol

[FreeTally]

Pot is great for toddlers and I see no reason why these people should go to jail. Parents should make it a point to introduce their children to drugs and alcohol at an early age, and get them drunk and high on a regular basis. Screw anyone who says otherwise.(obvious sarcasm)

Is that what you honestly expect me to say, or are you just continuing your typical, idiotic libertarian bashing show?

[wardaddy]

Dogs who like herb will dig it up out of the yard where it's buried (hidden) to eat it....I've seen many a red eyed black lab for that very reason.

Catnip is sort of like pot chemically isn't it? No suprise it makes kitties playful.

[andy_card]

ROTFLMAO! This reminds me of W. C. Fields and Baby LeRoy, whom he used to get drunk on camera. Ok, maybe it wasn't the most ethical thing in the world, but it wasn't torture and it was funny as hell.