Students at Henderson Inclusion School in Dorchester taken to hospital after eating marijuana edible
DORCHESTER - For the second time in two months, students at the Henderson Inclusion School in Dorchester were taken to the hospital after eating marijuana edibles.
Three middle school students were hospitalized late Tuesday morning after they ate "what appeared to be a cannabis-infused chocolate edible," interim head of school Stephanie Sibley said in a letter to parents. "An investigation into this incident is ongoing."
There's no word yet on the students' conditions.
A fourth student taken to the hospital Tuesday was in high school. Marlena Woodliff says her 15-year-old became sick after he took some puffs from a marijuana vape pen. "Vomiting, high blood pressure, elevated heartrate, and he was very pale. He was out of it," she said.
Woodliff said two incidents like this at her son's school is too many. "It's parents and staff working together, that they need to do a little bit better," she said.
Sibley's letter also encouraged parents to talk to their children about the impacts of substance abuse.
Back in March, three students at the school were taken to the hospital after eating marijuana edibles there.
"The effects can be very significant, and the toxicity can be significant," said Dr. Charles Murphy, who works in the Tufts Medical Center Emergency Department. "I've gotten a number of school-aged children as well as younger children come in with very significant effects. It can be anything from being sleepy or drowsy, a profound altered mental status, almost like a coma-like state," he said.
The Henderson School has children from kindergarten through high school.
