(Updated) School officials reported two incidents Wednesday involving psychoactive “edibles.”
In the first incident, three Bishop Woods School eighth-graders were taken to the hospital after sharing a likely cannabis-infused treat that made them sick.
So reported schools spokesperson Justin Harmon.
He said a student brought in candy and shared it with two others. The students “experienced slurred speech and vomited,” Harmon reported.
The student described the candy as an “edible.” The school system is waiting for a police toxicologist to determine in fact whether it was a cannabis edible.
It was decided to take all three students to hospital for review as a precaution, according to Harmon, who said two of the students were no longer displaying symptoms at the time.
Schools staffers did a sweep to determine that no one else at Bishop Woods ate the edible.
“The parents of the children who were transported to the hospital have been informed. All other students at the school are well, and school is proceeding. Staff are going to classes to talk to the students about what happened,” Harmon wrote in a release.
Harmon issued a second release Wednesday about a separate incident at Hillhouse High School. During a lockdown due to “police activity” in the neighborhood, “a student was behaving erratically. She acknowledged having consumed an “edible” substance,” Harmon wrote. “She was transported to the hospital as a precaution.”
When I was growing up in the 1960’s and 70’s and ‘80’s, our schools educated us to avoid LSD laced items that were being passed around in schools. My parents and my friends parents warned us not to take anything that might be hallucinogenic, like psychedelic mushrooms, LSD or marijuana laced cookies, brownies or candies. With recreational and medicinal marijuana becoming legalized and more readily available and fentanyl overdoses common amongst children and teens taking drugs for the first time that their friends have given to them, it will be important for schools and parents to talk to children so they understand the dangers of taking something or eating it when you don’t know where it was originally gotten from, what is in it, how it was made and what it might do to you.
“Just say no” won’t cut it, you have to tell children in clear and accurate language the risks involved and the danger involved to the developing brain.