Girls Hospitalized After Eating Pot Cookie, Mom Arrested, Say Police

COVINA, California (CBS/AP) Kids see cookie... kids eat cookie... kids get sick, according to Covina police, who say two children were hospitalized after eating a marijuana-laced cookie they found on a kitchen counter.

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Their mother, 33-year old Veronica Sylvester, was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment.

Covina police Lt. Tim Doonan says the girls, ages 10 and 11, found the chocolate chip cookie in a baggie when they came home from school on Monday.

Doonan tells the San Gabriel Valley Tribune that the girls felt ill, complaining of numbness and pale, clammy skin, and were taken to a hospital, where tests showed traces of marijuana.

Sylvester remained in jail Wednesday on $100,000 bail, according to the newspaper.

Doonan says the mother she told detectives she got the cookie from a friend for medical purposes. But Doonan says Sylvester had no prescription for marijuana.