Ooops! 5th Grader Brings Pot-Laced Candy To School, Gets Classmates Sick

Sharing is caring! Unless it sends everyone to the nurse’s office. 

A budding gangapreneur, just 9-years-old, brought pot-edibles to school to split with her classmates.

School officials noticed something was wrong after the unnamed New Mexico student shared a box of gummy candy with her fellow fifth-graders.

According to the report, “One student at the Albuquerque School of Excellence started feeling dizzy. Another couldn’t see. Some claimed they were giggly.”

The THC-laced noms were actually prescribed to the student’s grandfather, school officials say, and the little girl had no idea the bag of goodies was anything other than gummies. Whoops!

THC gummies can be two to 100 times more potent than traditional marijuana.

“She thought she was sharing candy, and if you saw the picture on the box, it did look like candy,” Kristi Del Curto, dean of elementary students, told the local press.

“She told the nurse that she was feeling sick and was very dizzy and that she thought she had food poisoning from something she ate in the cafeteria. The nurse asked her what else she had eaten and she said gummies. We asked to see the box, which had been tossed in the trash after it was empty.”

Teachers did call the students’ parents, paramedics and authorities, but nobody suffered any lasting effects.

Albuquerque School of Excellence turned the incident “into a teaching moment for all of us — staff and students.”

This sparked quite a debate online. Most people weighing in said that it’s really up to the parents to teach their kids about edibles.

Twenty-nine states allow the medical use of the herb. “As marijuana becomes legal in each state it’s going to become more and more of an issue, I believe,” Del Curto told KRQE-TV.

So far, no one has been reprimanded or charged in connection with the incident.

It may seem like a funny story to some, but The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it’s no laughing matter. “Eating foods or drinking beverages that contain marijuana have some different risks than smoking marijuana, including a greater risk of poisoning. It is also important to remember that marijuana affects children differently than adults.”

What do you think, fam? Honest mistake and let it go, or should someone be held accountable for this pot-luck gone wrong?