Pot Brownies Bring Junior Prom to Abrupt End

[Jazzy]

A Massachusetts prom came to an abrupt end after students became violently ill from eating pot-laced brownies, according to school officials and police.



Three students at the North Andover High School junior prom were sent to the hospital as a precaution Friday after alarmed chaperones, including the school's principal, saw that the teenagers were sick and called 911, North Andover Superintendent Chris Hottel said in a statement.



Students were sent home early and were leaving the building, even as latecomers were still arriving.



The culprit? Marijuana brownies, according to police. After investigating, police and school officials said they think almost a dozen students may have knowingly eaten the illicit brownies before heading to the prom at the Atkinson Country Club in Atkinson, N.H.



Eleven students were eventually interviewed at the prom as possibly having received a brownie, Hottel said.



Atkinson Police Chief Philip Consentino said the students probably knew the brownies were laced with pot. I'm leaning toward the assumption that they knew what they were doing, he told The Boston Globe. Where the brownies came from, who had them, we're not sure.



In a phone interview today with AOL News, Consentino said police in North Andover had taken over the investigation, since the students ate the brownies in Massachusetts and no crime was committed in Atkinson.



North Andover Police Lt. Paul Gallagher did not immediately respond to a request for comment from AOL News but told North Andover Patch that the investigation into the baked goods was ongoing. No charges have been filed against the students so far.



Article link including video: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/05/pot-laced-brownies-sicken-massachusetts-students-shut-down-juni/

 

[The Dragon Master]

Well... That bit of stupidity ended what could have been one of the best night's of their life. You only get to go to a Junior Prom once. They wasted their's and everyone else's.

 

[Jazzy]

+1 for Dragon! Couldn't have said it any better than she did.

 

[Cranos]

They were just having some fun. Calling 911 was totally idiotic and overreacted.

 

[Jazzy]

They were just having some fun. Calling 911 was totally idiotic and overreacted.

You consider ruining a Junior Prom for everyone funny? Calling 911 is exactly what they should have done as no one knew why these kids were getting sick. It's better to err on the side of caution than to do nothing.

 

[Ashley]

You consider ruining a Junior Prom for everyone funny? Calling 911 is exactly what they should have done as no one knew why these kids were getting sick. It's better to err on the side of caution than to do nothing.

I don't find this funny myself. This type of drug is illegal around here, and those eleven kids could very easily have died from it as well, and I don't think it matters how much was put in there.

 

[Cranos]

You consider ruining a Junior Prom for everyone funny? Calling 911 is exactly what they should have done as no one knew why these kids were getting sick. It's better to err on the side of caution than to do nothing.

Having some fun and funny don't mean the same thing last time I checked. No I don't find it funny, it's not something to laugh with. You can tell that someone used drugs almost immediately by just talking to them for a sec, also pot has very minor symptoms. They could've at least figured out why they were sick before calling 911, it's an overreaction.



Besides, there are always some idiots who want to try out pot or alcohol at these types of events so the adults could've expected it.

 

[Jazzy]

You can tell that someone used drugs almost immediately by just talking to them for a sec, also pot has very minor symptoms. They could've at least figured out why they were sick before calling 911, it's an overreaction.

I'm a Paramedic and let me enlighten you. I cannot tell almost immediately just by talking to someone that they have used drugs. There are a lot of injuries and/or existing medical conditions that can appear as though someone used drugs prior to my arrival. Did you also know that mild carbon monoxide poisoning causes headache, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, and poor coordination making a person appear they were using drugs?



They could have found out why they were sick before calling 911 (sorry) makes me laugh. Do you think someone was going to acutally say: I laced brownies with pot and that's why? I applaud the person who had the smarts enough to pick up a phone and dial 911. Putting peoples lives at risk, IMO, is not Having some fun (to quote you).

 

[Cranos]

Oh please, 3 friends happen to become ill at the exact same time at a prom having all the usual symptoms of using pot? It doesn't take a genius to figure out what happened.



Misplaced quote btw, I doubt the person calling 911 was having fun. Unless you're saying the boys put lives at risk by taking pot?

 

[Jazzy]

Oh please, 3 friends happen to become ill at the exact same time at a prom having all the usual symptoms of using pot? It doesn't take a genius to figure out what happened.

Can you please tell us ignorant ones the usual symptoms of using pot?

 

[Nebulous]

students became violently ill from eating pot-laced brownies

Ive ate pot brownies in the past and never got sick. I wonder if anything else was put in them?

 

[Jazzy]

Ive ate pot brownies in the past and never got sick. I wonder if anything else was put in them?

Unless they can find one of those brownies and analyze the ingredients, we will never know the answer.

 

[jpetrie]

Pretty much just destroyed everyone else's evening.