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Subscribe to RSSCLINTON, Conn. -- Police say a 33-year-old man sent along a little something extra in his 18-month-old son's lunch box this week: a marijuana cigarette.
Clinton police arrested John Sulzbach of Killingworth after workers at the Clinton Child Care Center reported finding the pot in the child's food container on Thursday, NBCConnecticut.com reported. The child is 18 months old, police said.
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The cigarette was accidentally dropped in the food container while Sulzbach made the child's lunch the night before, police said.
Police found less than one ounce of marijuana in Sulzbach’s basement after searching his home. He faces charges of risk to injury to a minor and drug possession.
Sulzman was charged with possession of a controlled substance and risk of injury/impairing the morals of a child. He was released on a written promise to appear in court on Dec. 22.
Msnbc.com staff contributed to this report from NBCConnecticut.com.
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If it's good enough for me, it's good enough for him.
there's an oh @!$%# moment.
yeah...i remember my own...about 10-11 years ago when i realized my two year old was on the loose and there was a trail of bud leading out of my bedroom...yep...
As if the toddler would ever know what to do with it, anyway...
dudogger: He'd do the same thing little kids do with everything-stick it in his mouth.
nothing wrong with sticking it in his mouth. doesn't do a damn thing. wouldn't encourage imitating smoking marijuana to a kid, but it wouldn't do a damn thing...
No wonder the kid was so mellow. ;)
Sorry your honor... I was a bit high when I was making my son's lunch. I'm surprised I didn't eat his lunch while I was making it... but at least I made his lunch, right?
lol, are stoners the only ones with sense of humor these days,.. its no different than a cigerette, now if he woulda lit the damn thing then yea its bad, only cuz he might be a slower learner as he gets older, hope the father doesnt do much time, and damn, i hate it when the call them marijuana cigerettes, its a damn joint... a cigerette has nicotine, i remember when i was little and was at my dads friends house and saw a bunch of seeds on the bed, did tht make me wanna grow weed, no.. had no clue what it was till i got older, also used to walk in on my dad rolling a "cigerette" as he would say then as i got older i wandered why what he was rolling was green, i later figured it out, ;)
didnt read the whole thing when i commented last, at least he was released, tweakers are the ones that need to be behind bars, and its funny in the town i live in, the tweakers are always out of jail early and stoners get stuck in there, maybe it's because tweakers always snitch and stoners dont, idk
A kid needs something to puff after a big lunch, helps with digestion.
He will probably forget the court date
well..could be worse..could have put malt liquor in his sippy cup instead of apple juice..
atleast that could be fatal..
Safer than 90% of household items under the sink.
No, 100%: kids could hang themselves with a towel.
Legalize it, Regulate it, Tax it.
Did no one learn a single thing from the prohibition of the 1920's?
Legalize it, Grow it, Cultivate it, Regulate it, Tax it.
yeah...crime's cool...
Legalize it, whatever just keep it away from your toddlers!
Toddlers? Because the water has evaporated from your branches and they are growing dry and brittle in the sun? You fear your future soul because you cannot even believe those who claim to share your faith anymore. The story does not make sense, and life beyond does not make much sense to those who are not already aware of their own eternal life.
Man is falling in and out of animal; the left is the eternal, it is rooted in eternity. The right is the body; it is rooted in the here and now. The left says move on, the right says stay and fight. The left always prevails, because the left is the eternal - if not silent minority - in more than half of all of us.
In reality, it does not reside exclusively on either the right or the left, but in both hemispheres in harmony. We simply label characteristics as being either right or left politically, which helps us to identify our differences.
Huh?
I read the teaser and thought Huh? What's a "pot cigarette?"
In a flash I realized two things: they meant doobie, and this is what is wrong with both the younger generation and those old white guys in congress. They are all in dire need of a toke or two.
Bring back the good old days.
Liquid Left---
Is your post satirical? Is that supposed to be an example of the commercial with the egg frying in the skillet when the commentator says: "This is your brain ... " If you've seen the add you know the rest.
lol @ liquid left...wow, that came right outta nowhere, alright.
liquid left... what the hell are you smokin today???????
Do you put those chemicals under your sink in your child's lunch? THINK people.
ummm....chemicals under the sink? hell, marijuana's safer than aspirin...! what kind of argument is that?
risk of injury/impairing the morals of a child.
Really ?? What a joke ! These stupid pot laws have to go away.
If the father would have dropped a Tobacco Cigarette (which kills 440,000 people every year) would the father face the same stupid charges ? Like Cannabis or not these pot laws are stupid and a waste of time and money.
I'm curious - if a father accidentally dropped a Marlboro cigarette into that lunch, would he have been arrested? A regular tobacco cigarette contains toxic chemicals the likes of which will not be found in pot. Chemicals that could cause serious illness in a child, if they were to ingest it. Not so with pot.
You know what would happen to a child that ate a pot cigarette? Nothing. Because the thing that gives you the "high" in pot isn't activated until it's heated, and the THC is released. Even an 18 month old wouldn't get a buzz. Probably not even a stomach ache.
Tell me what hypocrisy looks like.
Don't misunderstand - I do not support kids eating, smoking or doing pot. They're too young and their brains aren't fully developed. They can choose that as an adult, but not during the developing years.
I'm just saying for the sake of comparison, I've never heard of a parent being arrested for accidentally putting a regular cigarette into a child's lunchbox, and the only thing that pot has that's worse than cigarettes is stigma. Look it up if you don't know what the word means.
actually kids with adhd and autism have been shown to benefit from medical marijuana significantly...(not by smoking it up, medibles, man.)
Now, that is what I call a happy meal.
Nice :)
i can see it now...changing the color of those golden arches to green...
I've been having a rough past few weeks, Little Sure Shot.
I really needed a good belly-laugh. Thanks. :)
My pleasure seriouslynow.
Dear NBC/MSNBC staff and writers...it's the 21st century, so just a tad of enlightenment. A cigarette is commonly made of tobacco, but a similar looking object, rolled by hand and filled with marijuana, is called a JOINT,(among other things) but NOT a cigarette. If the writer(s) of this story is/are that far behind the times, then it's time for retirement. Maybe WalMart needs a new door greeter
Maybe they used the term for the benefit of the geezers on this side of the monitor, who only know "joint" as something that hurts when the weather turns cold?
Muggles! The reefer! Faster... faster!
@Chuck: They know it's a joint - they just have to use stupidity like "marijuana cigarette" on purpose to display to anyone who may judge that they are not that "familiar" with this evil, godless thing :)
technically it is called a "Marijuana Cigarette" in court. Since the reporter copied the police report where the evidence was listed as a marijuana cigarette, they were reporting the facts. The term 'joint' is slang.
The old geezers who don't know about pot or drugs joke don't work in 2011 because Tommy Chong is 73 years old now. Its the old people who smoke the pot now. That's the reality of the 21st century!
The geezers?
Honey, we geezers grew up stoned. That's what's wrong with this country. a. We don't get high anymore, and b. We didn't hand down our values to our children.
We sold out. *sob*
Marijuana as you all know have been around forever. We have a product or weed what ever you want to call it. It is a god send. We have something that can be used for good and its been demonized. The medical benefits rival aspirin. We push the limits of are prisons by imprisoning people for simple possession. The only reason it stays illegal, is because there is to much money to be made by keeping it illegal. Tommy Chong and his buddy Cheech haven't helped the cause. They made marijuana users look like fools when thats not true. Thank you for reading my post. Now its time for this "old geezer" to go dose, get a grin, get stoned, or whatever you want to call it.
Peace & Love!
Party at Smitty"s!
Amazing! I feel almost normal with this Prilosec. But if I ever forget to take it boy do I get reminded if you are like me and need a solution i would recommend the place "Get Official Samples" to get free sample of prilosec.
But... why?!
Alcohol is way more destructive. People will be normal on minute then drunk and try to kill everyone around them. Pot doesn't do that...Alcohol also makes you sick, delusional, and a FOOL. Pot...just makes you laugh, ok maybe a tad delusional but, eh...
The one thing that no one has asked yet, so I will, what 18 MONTH OLD goes to school? That's a year and a half and I don't even know of a pre-school that would accept that child.
article stated it was a child care center-so it was actually day care not school.
The have college-prep day care for kids that age.
risk of injury/impairing the morals of a child. ???? are you kidding?
i need to see where there is possible risk of injury or moral impairing.
I bet he could trade up for THREE Twinkies at lunch in the school cafeteria...........
Stupid druggies.
Old fart
Even if the kid ate the joint it wouldn't hurt him. In fact if would be good for him. Legalize the dam stuff and stop the bs.
That had to be written by a person who either has not reproduced or should not have reproduced.
I've never known a toddler with morals. LOL They are like little puppy dogs, dear. They'll even gnaw on the leg of your coffee table, given half a chance.
How in the hell does accidentally putting a doobie into a kid's lunch put him at risk of injury? Even if he ate it, it probably wouldn't do very much at all, as Rick's Real pointed out.
Secondly, how is it impairing the morals of the child, when the kid probably wouldn't even know what it is. I didn't even know such a charge existed; aren't morals subjective? Who's to decide by which moral standard to judge someone who's been charged with that?
The US constitution guarantees freedom of belief, but apparently it doesn't guarantee that people of all beliefs should be free to raise a child.
What incredible hype. Injure the morals of an 18 month old who doesn't even know what it is? Did the police think the 18-mo old was gonna whip out it lighter and fire it up? Does the kid even open his own lunch and feed himself, or does and adult do it for him?
Even if worse case, the kid got ahold of the joint and ate it, THC isn't release without heat. The kid was never in any danger, morally or physically.
Did the adult INTENTIONALLY put the joint in there? So now we arrest every parent who accidentally endangers (stretching it) their child? If so, every parent would be in jail. Accidents happen, get over it.
think of this...
Everybody know kids have to have seat-belts on if not be in a 'kiddy chair' while in a car/truck...which is due tot eh extreme dangers of being in one and moving on a street with others vehicles. i.e...you are intentionally putting your kids in danger by having them in a vehicle... will they be arresting people for that??? The potential for harming and causing the death of a child is far greater from being in a car than a joint in his lunch box...
What stupid charges? Only in America, the land of the free.
it is stupid...marijuana is one of the safest, non-toxic substance known to mankind...kid was in no danger at all...
what a bunch of bullsheeet..the kid is an obvious crackhead heroin addict that stole the joint to sell to his teacher so he could buy some smack during recess...that monkey on his back just wouldn't have it any other way...
I think I would of pocketed the marijuana ciggarete instead of snitching on the guy, after that I would of spoke to the dad in private and maybe extort a couple marijuana ciggaretes for the road.
So what's the problem?
what do you think, einstein? they're releasing a murderer or rapist or thief to make room for this non-violent father...
At least he remembered to make his son's lunch...lol.