CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine — Nine Cape Elizabeth High School students have been suspended and a police investigation is under way after the students allegedly ate marijuana-laced cookies
High school Principal Jeffrey Shedd said none of the students was arrested, and no one has been charged with a crime, but the matter has been referred to the police department.
The students allegedly ate the cookies and then attended the daylong TEDxYouth event at the high school, a lecture series holding its first event hosted by high school students in Maine.
Some of the students reportedly became sick after eating the cookies and went to the nurse’s office, where it was discovered they had ingested drugs, Shedd said.
Shedd said he did not know if the cookies contained any other drugs besides marijuana or if all the students knew what was in the cookies.
One of the students, who allegedly supplied the cookies, has been suspended for 10 days and could face expulsion, Shedd said. The rest of the students have been suspended for two days each and are required to see the substance abuse counselor, per the school’s drug policy.
In 2010, the high school expelled a student for selling a pot brownie to another student who ended up in a hospital emergency room.
Shedd said police are taking the lead right now, and further action is possible as a result of their investigation.
A phone call to the Police Department on Monday was not immediately returned.
In the students defense, Principal Shedd DID send a memo to parents home with the students asking them to attend with, and I’m quoting here, “There is only one other thing you need to bring for tomorrow: Your open minds.” Guess he got a little more than he bargained for.
Marijuana is legal in Colorado.
And Wa State. But you have to be 21.
oh they must be talking about the Cape Elizabeth High School in Colorado.. otherwise, your comment would be irrelevant……..
Instead of suspending them they should be required to take Home-Ec classes so their cooking does not make people sick.
Ah, yes. Home Ec.. the ulitmate punishment!
I hated that nonsense.
It might help open up the creative right side of the brain, though not the left – in fact the opposite.
Why woukd Shedd suspend them for two days when he states he does not know if all of them knew what was in the cookies???
My guess would be school policy.
The policy banning cookies?
With drugs in them, yes.
If so, bad blanket policy.
Maybe because the libs. didn’t get their tax money for the weed.
exaclty, the libs and some ‘moderate conservatives’ (i.e., ashamed libs) are all about taxing everything they can get their hands on…
already have mail order set up with CO and WA….no taxes, no fees, and the immoral libs can’t plunder a bit of the profit
freedom and a real free market is beautiful thing!!
Omg we smoke pot in the school parking lot 40 years ago!! Called the cops??!! Seriously time to move on people
and I’ve stolen in the past, it should be legal. It is time to instill MORALS in our youth, this does start at home, not with laws, but our laws should reflect our countries morals, rather than our lack there of……
Please tell me how is this immoral ?? U must have some weird definition.
Some people tend to hang in closed social circles or just like being hypocritical in general (friends or family who use somewheres along the line but won’t admit). any way you put it, if your in school now-a-days and you DONT smoke weed in HS, you are most likely not at any parties or social gatherings that students attend, if thats a negative or positive thing you could debate yourselves, im just saying its the normal now, morals are no longer part of the question really. Legality sure, for now anyway.
Btw everytime I see someone anti-weed while smoking a cigarette or drinking beer every night after work, I chuckle a bit.
THE 8 PEOPLE IN THE NEWS STORIES BELOW WERE ALIVE 6 MONTHS AGO BUT ARE NOW BURIED IN A CEMETERY RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF SOMEONE SMOKING POT:
ASK THEIR NEXT OF KIN IF POT IS HARMLESS.
THREE BOYS KILLED…TESTED POSITIVE FOR POT IN SYSTEM,NO OTHER DRUGS
” ‘ Three of those killed in crash tested positive for marijuana .no other drugs’ ”
“Three of those killed in the Mainland,NJ, crash tested positive for marijuana”
Three of the four Mainland Regional High School football players killed in a crash last year tested positive after the accident for chemicals in marijuana,
Drug tests showed both tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and carboxy in the blood of driver Casey Brenner, 17, of Northfield, and passengers Edgar Bozzi, 17, of Somers Point, and Dean Khoury, 15, …….
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/communities/northfield_linwood_somers-point/three-of-those-killed-in-mainland-crash-tested-positive-for/article_9c5c12f0-f238-11e1-b2a3-001a4bcf887a.html
THREE DEAD IN BOAT CRASH….MARIJUANA FOUND NO OTHER DRUGS
“Authorities say traces of marijuana were found in the body of one of four sailors who died when their yacht crashed during a race from Southern California to Mexico.”An independent review panel concluded that the sailboat Aegean smashed into an island off the Mexican coast on April 28 during the Newport to Ensenada Race. Also killed were the captain, Theo Mavromatis of Redondo Beach, and crewmembers Kevin Rudolph of Manhattan
http://www.10news.com/news/pot-found-in-body-of-sailor-killed-in-yacht-crash
DRIVER SMOKED POT…KILLS SCHOOL TEACHER…NO OTHER DRUGS
“Driver Had Marijuana In System In Crash That Killed Retired Music Teacher”
Prosecutors say a man had marijuana in his system when he caused a crash that killed a long-time music teacher in the Elgin schools.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/25/prosecutors-driver-had-marijuana-in-crash-that-killed-retired-music-teacher/
DRIVER HAD POT IN SYSTEM…..LITTLE BOY KILLED IN HORRIBLE DEATH
“Driver had pot in system when Skokie boy hit, killed
Investigators say a woman with a drug possession conviction was smoking pot the day the vehicle she was driving struck an 8-year-old boy in Skokie, pushing the bike he was riding on a sidewalk across the street and into a parked car.
Carter Vo, a second-grader at Madison Elementary School in Skokie, died at the scene . Aggravated DUI among charges in death of 8-year-old”
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-05-24/news/ct-met-skokie-felony-dui-0524-20120524_1_skokie-boy-smoking-pot-wright-terrace
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 32,885 people died in traffic crashes in 2010 in the United States (latest figures available), including an estimated 10,228 people who died in drunk driving crashes, accounting for 31% of all traffic deaths last year.
http://www.centurycouncil.org/drunk-driving/drunk-driving-fatalities-national-statistics
alcohol is legal.
Over the past 10 years as POT has become more accepted in the United States, deaths on the roadways because of POT smoking is now rising.
So you think adding more deaths on the roads via pot smoking to the 10,228 deaths via alcohol drinking, is smart?
if we go by your logic, then we should ban alcohol – perhaps even cars – or guns –
In the case of the sailors, do you really think that one of four people on board smoking pot caused the navigational error?
I can cite way more than eight cases in which families have been breoken up and good citizens jailed simply because someone was growing a little weed on the property. College students are stripped of financial aid for smoking a joint at a party. Gangs get involved with marijuana distribution because it is illegal, and I would bet that more than 8 deaths a year result from the violence associated with the illegal marijuana market. Remove the illegality and you remove the threat of violence.
In short, marijuana is not harmless, but the laws against it are WAY more harmful than the drug.
Thanks granny, now back to bed for some rest, wouldn’t want to mess up your nap schedule
you need all the rest you can get to brush up on your critical reading and thinking skills, as this post is a big FAIL
I’d like to see a list of deaths caused by alcohol now, followed by a list of deaths caused by driver inattention…
It’s your right to believe what you want but the truth is pot relaxes people. It’s not like alcohol, it doesn’t give you false bravado. It doesn’t change you into a crazed maniac, you don’t see flying purple elephants. . If you ever took a night time cold medicine, it is about the same type of buzz, it relaxes you.
So if it “relaxes” you, doesn’t that mean you have lost some motor control? Do you “smoke” and drive?
Perhaps it can affect motor skills for a few people but not as much as talking on a phone distracts most of your senses, you tend to drive slower, because you focus harder on whatever it is your doing, unlike when you get a few alcohol drinks in you.
Yes I did smoke and drive 40 years ago and no I’ve never been in an accident that I caused and no I never got a ticket for anything.
I stopped smoking pot 39 years ago or there about because I’d rather spend my money on other things like a house.
You won’t be upset when it becomes legalized for recreational use right? Just make your children do it behind your back like they will anyway, its better that way because they won’t be in controlled environments eh? I didn’t really read or click anything there, that looks like copy-pasta spam you have saved in a notepad somewheres on your computer, grow up!
My guess is he raided his parents medical pot stash. Hope the cops are looking into this as a possibility. The sort of thing will be a problem in Washington and Colorado, in the future.
Careful what ya vote for.
I raided my parents liquor cabinet as a teen. What’s your point?
You need to smoke a bowl and chill out pal
Seems like it’s already a problem in Maine. What’s our excuse?
As opposed to him robbing his moms non medical stash, or some other persons stash? Silly points are silly, half the voters are high anyway and even then only 1/3rd of americans actually waste the time to see a new talking head in a suit n tie.
Who cares a few high school kids having some fun.
It looks like the school nurse may have ratted out the student who went to her because he was sick. If there’s no confidentiality between a school nurse and a student seeking medical help, students who use marijuana and have a medical problem at school should think twice about what they say to the nurse – or whether they should even go to the school nurse.
I don’t see how anybody got sick unless there was something else in there. Cannabis is the #1 cure for nausea.
I’m again puzzled why the kids that ate the cookies are suspended. If they didn’t know what was in them, they should be innocent and not suspended.