Grandma's pot cookies land 3-year-old Southern California boy in hospital

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(AP) MURRIETA, Calif. - Police say a 3-year-old Southern California boy ended up in the hospital after eating his grandmother's marijuana-laced cookies.

Murietta police Sgt. Phil Gomez told the Riverside Press-Enterprise Monday that the grandmother, a cancer patient, had a doctor's recommendation to use marijuana to ease her pain.

Gomez says she had baked a batch of drug-laced cookies and stored them in a garage refrigerator.

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The toddler's father had seen cookie crumbs in the garage but the family grew concerned only when they couldn't wake the toddler after more than 16 hours of sleep and realized he had consumed the cookies.

The child was observed at a hospital and released.

Investigators are awaiting toxicology tests. If marijuana is found in the child's system, family members could face child endangerment charges.

[blotto42]

Why dont we see more headlines,

"Over 10,000 innocent mexicans killed every year in the drug war"

"100,000 people per year in the US are killed by precription drugs."

"Over half of all people in prison in the US are for marijuana crimes."

"Police departments get special bounties paid by the federal government to persue drug crimes over other types of crime, affecting the amount of time spent by police on these other crimes."

"The number of drug-related deaths connected to marijuana can be counted on one person's hands and toes while alcohol is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths each year."

Just put a Mr. Yuk symbol on the cookies and all is well, meanwhile all of these other situations continue full force.

Wake up and smell the oppression folks. Stop drinking the mad hatter's tea, get a backbone, and start taking back this country that the feds have stolen from us.

Or, you can continue to believe the hype, stick to yer armchair opinions and wait until the swat teams bust in your door for no good reason whatsoever.

[WillowSunstar]

People with small children, even if the small children are only visiting, absolutely have to place things that could harm kids out of their reach. You have to child-proof your home as much as you can, and for children of a certain age, you cannot leave them unattended. This should be common sense by now.

[Jaylah54200]

"It's for my glaucoma." -- Puss In Boots

[micmac666]

Wait for blood tests. THC wouldn't cause that unless as the result of a very unusual allergy. 'Still negligent, though.

[bobnjersey]

[Gomez says she had baked a batch of drug-laced cookies and stored them in a garage refrigerator.]
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they must not have been very good cookies ... cause if they were ... they never would have made into 'storage'.

[CurmudgeonHouse]

This Grandma was behaving like the typical spaced out forgetful and irresposible pothead despite her using it to treat her pain because of cancer. Who lets a kid sleep for 16 hours without trying to wake them a lot sooner than that?
People who use pot just to get high are the worst because who wants to be all spaced out, lowering your IQ then and over time and an accident waiting to happen.
Just can't see it.

[deplaneboss]

if smoking weed lowers your IQ, then you should stay as far away from it as physically possible! im sure everyone would hate to see you lose the mental prowess required to conceptualize these informative posts!

[IPonUall]

For every reason their is an exception.

[erasmus111]

I see numerous problems here.

The child was left unattended.

The child was left with a HIGH granny.

Drugs were left within reach of a child.

A child is left to sleep for 16 FREAKING HOURS before someone has the brains to get help. They did not know for a FACT what the problems was, or what the consequences would be for a child eating all those cookies.

More LOUSY parents/grandparents. I guess STUPID is hereditary.

[erasmus111]

88Ronin

Ahhh, let me guess, you live in a smoke hazed world and you feel threatened? My words are making you feel guilty because you are one of those incompetent parents? On the defensive, are we?

Are you really telling me that this is acceptable behaviour? Leaving a 3 year old child unattended long enough for them to go out into the GARAGE, where who knows what other things he could have gotten into? SERIOUSLY?

And you would think nothing of your child sleeping 16 HOURS??? SERIOUSLY?

Damn, I hope you don't have kids.

[bilrobi1]

SO how man children have been hospitalized for accidental ingestion of cannabis vs children injured by access and accidental discharge of a gun? I don't know, I'm just asking.

[Bojax39]

Don't know either, but the root cause of most things of this nature has less to do with the cause of injury than the inattentive stupidly of parents.

Securing or eliminating dangerous things when there are kids in the home and teaching children early how to leave things alone is just common sense. Something which many parents and caregivers sadly lack.

[wlhoppers]

I would think the parents would have been alarmed after the kid slept more than 7 or 8 hours. Usually, kids that age are up and bouncing around after that.

Sad story.

[erasmus111]

"I would think the parents would have been alarmed after the kid slept more than 7 or 8 hours."

Yeah, no kidding! The fact that they waited 16 hours deeply concerns me. I'd be looking into it further.

[jgnv]

No kidding. That's what makes ridiculous stories like this one so unbelievable. If Grandma had her pot laced cookies stored in a frig in the garage, how is it a 3 yr old wandered out there alone in the first place? Secondly, who waits 16 hours for a toddler to wake up? This story raises more questions than it answers.

[bramletabercrombie]

You could give a fetus a pound of weed and it will be fine. Child endangerment? I don't think so.

[you_MAY_be_right]

That's what happened to him/her ... and he/she was dropped on his/her head at least one too many times.