Capt. Mark Gagan from the Richmond police headquarters says that a senior student aged 17 years old sold the marijuana brownies for $3 a piece or $5 for two pieces. The incident occurred at De Anza High School in Richmond, around 17 miles northeast of San Francisco.
Five students, whose ages range between 14 to 16, fell ill after eating the brownies. One of the students collapsed while inside the classroom while another was able to make it to the school office. They were both rushed to hospital.
People at the hospital reported that the two students were unconscious, not responding and in critical condition. One was already released after getting treatment while the other student had to remain for more observation.
The other three students received treatment for nausea and vomiting at the school.
The 17 year old student, a female, was arrested on suspicion of multiple counts of distributing drugs inside the school premises and of child endangerment. The school authorities are seeking charges against the girl and are deciding to have her expelled. She was taken at a juvenile detention center.
There's no word yet on how and where she got the pot-laced brownies. The police are not ruling out the possibility that she could have made the brownies herself.
The incident is not really the first time that pot-filled brownies caused high school students to fall ill. In April, three students from Lincoln High School were sent to the hospital because of pot-laced desserts. One of the students was also reported to suffer from vomiting and from being unable to walk.
In March of last year, six boys and one girl at the Pomona Elementary School in Costa Mesa, California were hospitalized after a fellow student gave them a pot-laced brownie. The sixth-grade student who brought the brownie allegedly didn't tell the other students that the brownie has a special ingredient. The brownie was passed around while they were having the mid-morning recess. When one student commented that the brownie has a funny taste, the student who brought it revealed that it had been drugged.
In California, medical marijuana is legal and highly available. It was the first state to legalize medical marijuana back in 1996. The legalization is not actually federal in nature due to the enactment of Proposition 215 of the same year. Non-medical possession of less than an ounce of marijuana has been decriminalized to an infraction.
