A warning? The fact is, she gave a minor drugs. She should have charges brought against her. The same would happen for other prescription drugs. Lock up your drugs if you have children it will help you out in the long run.

4 hours tops as youll go to sleep after but it sure does seem like an eternity. i feel for the todler but i bet he'll be ok, after 2 or 3 days.

Now, I would never admit to using illicit substances myself but I have a "friend" who has made batches that lasted 8+ hours. It all depends on the potency.

Much ado about nothing. Kids get concussions and parents don't even take them to the e.r. That hospital trip was a waste of money, and now granny can be charged with endangerment.

The ironic part is there are probably a hundred way more dangerous things for a 3 year old unattended in a garage than pot cookies...

Robis.... I think you've been eating the cookies, she didn't "give " him the cookies, he got into them.

I can only assume that if the child had actually suffered any harm it would have been reported, but since the child was not injured, it seems pretty ridiculous to charge anyone with harming the child.

Nobody "gave" the child cookies Rob - a cancer patient had them hidden in the house and the child found them, and ingested them while unsupervised. Would the family face the same charge if the child had gotten into the medicine cabinet and ingested the cancer patient's oxycodone or other narcotic pain medication or sleep aid?

Wrong - eating pot gets absorbed in the system and is less intense than smoking. Otherwise people would eat it and other drugs rather than smoking them.

robiscoole,

apparently your not, cool, i mean...she didn't feed the cookie to the boy, he found them. Sheez, nothing like reading the whole article.

I read its medical pot for grandma's cancer..that good to have to help her pain..but pot cookies in open no good.

Some three year olds have a grandma at age 35 some even younger ( not a senior yet even) and they are a grandma..notice no age given for her in article.

Mad Ski Guy-

That is incorrect. The effects of ingested THC is far more overwhelming than smoking it. It effects the entire body more than just the mind and carries far longer. Smoking hits you quicker, but eating it takes longer to feel the effects but the effects last seveal times longer. This is why the people who do eat it do so. While others may not like the idea of still being too high to deal with daily activities hours later, so the smoking thing works better anyway. Smoked marijuana is easier to bring to market than having to go thru the exrtra processing to make edibles that at least taste decent and have s short shelf life since processed THC breaks down faster when the resin, normally protected in the resin gland's membrane enclosure, is exposed to light, heat and air.

@ doyourhomework,America!

How dare you sir...
You have stolen my profile avatar!
This shall not stand!

"The fact is, she gave a minor drugs."

That is not a fact. The fact is the toddler got a hold of her drugs and in no way does the story say she gave them to him/her.

"Wrong - eating pot gets absorbed in the system and is less intense than smoking."

You obviously don't know what you are talking about. Its absorbed more slowly but is in fact more intense and longer lasting.

I hope the kid was at the least disciplined for doing something he should not have done. This is no worse than a kid getting into the chewable vitamins because they taste good or eating any other medication.

This is so much different than the idiot parents who give their kids drugs just for play to see what it will do to them. The fact he got into those cookies was an accident plain and simple. She stored them out of his reach - but apparently not far enough.

What would happen if the kid decided to "play" with her cancer medication? Which is very costly.

Sorry this scary situation happened, but the family reacted appropriately and charging them when there are so many other bad people who practically kill their kids out there is a waste of taxpayer money.

"Would the family face the same charge if the child had gotten into the medicine cabinet and ingested the cancer patient's oxycodone or other narcotic pain medication or sleep aid?"

No because those kids would have died. This one was just sleeping in and was probably wondering what all the fuss was about, probably wanted ice cream for breakfast also.

He was just taking a weed nap, no harm done.. right? right?

Why did dad call the cops before he took his kid to the hospital ?

Why is grandma so dumb as to leave drugs where a kid can get them ? I mean seriously, who isn't going to look in the fridge in the garage ? The first time I got drunk with my cousins was from beer in grandma's garage fridge.

And the cops need to get a life, the kid was not harmed, so charging someone with harming a child seems rather dumb. They gonna try and lock grandma up even though she has cancer, not likely. It won't happen again, move along to bothering jwalkers.

Child Endangerment, Really..? There was never any danger at all... This is ridiculous!!

I read the article, it is a @!$%#ing cookie. Lets see, how many kids would eat a cookie if they found it. You are correct all of them. This is endagerment. I am very pro for the cause, but this is what makes people hate the industry. Stupid potheads that don't have a clue. You cannot have drugs around children. No matter what they are.

Madone you are damned right you would go to jail if your kid got into your oxys, probably for manslaughter.

Sounds like everyone knew where Grandma's cookie stash was. Dad noticed the crumbs on the garage floor, he must be a littel upset that the kid ate them before he could.

Hey Grandma, send a few of those cookies my way!!!

It is the same with firearms, if a child finds one in the house and hurts self or others the parents are responsible. The grandmother is responsible for child endangerment.

jingle all the way: "PUT THAT COOKIE DOWN, NOW!!!!!!!"

Accidental poisonings of children happen every day. This is no different than if the child found any prescription drug and consumed it. The last case I heard of before this was a Triaminic incident, when the child imbibed too much when the medicine was left out where the child could reach it, while being treated with it during his illness. The mother only left the boy to go to the bathroom and vomit, as she was ill herself. It took seconds.

This is why we have poison control centers, and warning labels, and hospitals with ER rooms for when all else fails.

There should be no charges. This was not an illicit drug.

The child should have been better attended, but if society is going to start locking people up for that, then we better be prepared to triple our prison sizes.

Even the best of parents and caretakers can not watch a child every moment of the day, and may not have viable alternative.

I agree, Hatchet. The child was observed and released, the ingestion was accidental, the marijuana was prescribed for cancer pain and sleeping issues, and the grandmother took the precaution of trying to secure the cookies from her grandchild. Accidents happen, and every accident reveals that there is something more which could have been done, despite the number of precautions which were taken. Toddlers are TIRELESSLY curious.

I think the bigger issue here may be a refrigerator out of view and supervision in the garage which could be opened by a toddler. Thankfully the toddler did not climb inside. A possible tragedy was avoided, and I hope that refrigerator in the garage will from this point forward be properly retrofitted for child-safety.

It is appalling how much the effect of what this child experienced is being downplayed by people hellbent on validating a presently illegal lifestyle not meant for the young! The child falls asleep at 5 p.m. and at 10:30 a.m. the next morning they are in the E.C.C. because the kid cannot be roused; he can't wake up. I wonder what is happening inside this child's brain that he is unable to be awakened from his...coma? I've smoked pot very heavily at times and nothing like this ever occurred. Perhaps it was because he was so small, too underdeveloped to start using weed, or maybe even a hardwire problem...whatever. The kid got wiped out!!! The reason for the E.C.C. trip was compelling!!! This was no light-hearted issue for the family.

cue a bunch of ignorant ranters, who themselves have batches of prescription drugs in their medicine cabinet unlocked.

if YOU have prescription drugs in YOUR medicine cabinet unlocked, SHUT t f UP!!!!

and as you noticed, the child was observed and sent home. why? because MARIUANA CANNOT KILL YOU! no mater how much the kid ate he'd stil be fine, if not delirious a day later. it CAN'T poison yoiu because its NOT POISON.

yes, the grandma is as dumb as anybody else who leaves ANYTHING dangerous out a kid can grab for even a second. but so are YOU AND I. everybody makes mistakes. ever leave a sharp kitchen knife out and realize it?

then YOU are NO better.

so stop the sanctimony. and be very glad it wasnt grammas blood pressure medicine or oxycontin which so many of you take you would never say a word.

be glad it wasnt the legal BOOZE. cause then harm could have been done.

This is the same thing as if the child had gotten into the medicine cabinet and taken pills. It's a shame that the boy got into them, but the grandmother has a prescription for medical pot, and they were not with regular food. The aunt should have kept a closer watch on the boy. It is not like they GAVE him the cookies. Granny is already upset that the boy was messed up, what more do you want? You want an old lady with cancer to go to prison? Then YOU can pay for her medical care with your tax dollars. The aunt? I'm sure she feels bad too. They did not intentionally give him the pot laced cookies.

robiscoole..... take a chill pill (eat some pot cookies!). The grandmother probably won't go to jail as it was not intentional. Kids getting into medicine cabinets happen more than you realize. You act like she "gave" the child the cookies which is not the case.

ScottW714: Dad probably called the cops because he didn't know what to do - Notice is said "called the police" and then admitted to the hospital. Granny didn't give the kid anything. As a matter of fact, it didn't even mention granny in the article other than it was her medical pot - she may not even have been there. Who isn't going to look in the fridge in the garage??? Seriously? We're talking about a 3 year old child here - he doesn't (or didn't) know what getting high or drunk was. He just figured he'd hit the cookie jackpot!

I agree with Robert in Oregon. My next question is if the child fell asleep at 5pm and they were not concerned until the next day, what was with that? If my grandchild fell asleep at 5 and still asleep at 10pm I would be waking him up by then to see what was wrong with him. Kids normally don't sleep like that. If mine had a 5 hour nap they would wake up with a fully charged battery. Why did they wait so long to try to get him up? My quess is they knew long before then, but too scared at that moment to do anything until the next day when he didn't come out of his pot nap. A toddler is small and that cookie (s) took a toll on his body, thank God he didn't OD.

Doing "Toxicology" tests on a non-toxic substance? The kid would not, could not, cannot die from eating these, unless he happens to wander into the street and get run over by a car. I'm not saying that a traffic accident would not be a genuine concern; but let's put it into the proper perspective: Toxicity is not at issue, and until we get that line of bull@!$%# off the table, the pot issue in the U.S. cannot move forward.

Pull your heads out, chicken little's of the world! Even a CHILD cannot die of an overdose of marijuana; there is no overdose potential there. Never has been, never will be. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying; and if they say they're not, then show me a documented, verifiable instance where MARIJUANA OVERDOSE is listed as a cause of death.

Rushed to an emergency room? Puhleeez.

Robiscoole: She didn't "GIVE" him the cookies....he got them out of the fridge in the garage on his own. The best answer to this problem is to put a lock on the fridge. We have a fridge in our garage, and although we don't keep anything but food in there, we still have a lock on it.

I could understand them charging the parents if they gave the child the cookies, but they didn't. Their only mistake was not realizing he could reach them. I don't think this should be enough to charge them with child endangerment. As long as the grandmother had a prescription for the marijuana....the only endangerment was the parents not being a little more aware of their child's abilities. I think this incident will be a valuable lesson to them in the future. I certainly don't think they meant him to get the cookies, but kids LOVE cookies.

Regarding the debate over ingesting pot vs. smoking it, cannabis needs to be heated up to have any effect. That's why eating a bag of weed won't do much of anything but baking that same weed into cookies will get you high as f*&k.

So what. Can imagine the wild dreams the boy had. He and the Cookie Monster beating up Spider Man, Batman and Darryl Issa all over California. Then comes the Hulk and Romney, kicked them into the big ocean. Next thing he wakes up in the hospital and laughs at the doctor's funny face but is bewildered as to why he is so interested in the nurse's boobs that way.

Rick, many things which are non-toxic at a certain level become toxic at a very high level.

Even drinking too much water can be fatal.

@Pedro Sanchez-2919871

It is the same with firearms, if a child finds one in the house and hurts self or others the parents are responsible. The grandmother is responsible for child endangerment.

Guns can kill people, pot can't. No one in the house was hurt or endangered, even the child. No one has ever died or received permanent injury from over dosing on pot. Comparing pot cookies to a firearm is a massive over reach

This story is one more proof that pot does indeed help you sleep.

Legalize it, tax it, quit being self-righteous.

@Mike-3556589

Rick, many things which are non-toxic at a certain level become toxic at a very high level.

And many, many more things are not.

Even drinking too much water can be fatal.

And drinking too much Gatorade will make you pee a lot. Just because one thing is dangrous in excess doesn't mean everything is.

3 year old...if he wasn't a fan of cookie monster's...he is now...

Robiscoole you have some major issues. I'm just very thankful that you're not in an authority position because you're one of those holier than thou freaks who is the first one to cast the stone at other people. I don't even have to ask if you've ever made a mistake because that is quite obvious. Take a chill pill. NO one GAVE the kid a cookie. Geeeeez dude

dear editor, please include how many deaths have occured this year from minors taking parents perscription opium products.....there is no story if you cannot have an opposing view of all drugs.

V...lol and you stole my pic...only the little boy in mine is wearing a diffrent team jersy...love that pic thou

to be honest, i have never seen any scientific documentation stating ingestion is more potent than smoke, so i going to have to say its probably fairly equal...until i find a experiment that was conducted with honesty (not the one where they suffecated monkeys for 5 minutes a day for three months and claim pot did it)..but an actual one where there is a control group and all...if u know of one ill look at it

Wow, she didn't give the toddler drugs! It's a simple accident, no need to go judging the family and blaming them.

robiscoole agree

....very pro...but good gosh, spare the little ones please. Or else, this will always be thrown in you face....

this kid will know about this when he/she is older....he will be mad at his parents and use it against them, they will lose control and have a wild teen...its what happens when kids find out that they can use stuff against thier own families....and rightfully so....i know a teen whos father let him smoke ...now hes a run away and wont come home and if dad tries...he will call the police and tell on dad....so you see, kids do not have the ability to know what is best...it is us who needs to be responsible. I hope grandma has to share her story around the country and be sorry, but i dont think she needs to be in prison or locked up for she is not a danger to society, she just made bad judgement, like if you mom made a left at a red light and got hit...an accident...but she needs to be put in check

Very well said, Hatchett! I absolutely agree with you. It was an accident, yes it could have been prevented had the child been properly supervised, but like Hatchett said, that is so not about to happen. My kids are 8 & 6, my son when he was 1 1/2 got into my Tums that I had placed on top of the entertainment center. I was pregnant with my daughter at the time and had just turned my back for 5 seconds to get him a sippy cup and there he was in all his toddler glory munching on Tums. I called poison control, no harm no foul. Robis, excuse me for saying this, but you sir, are a freaking idiot. @!$%# happens, as much as we all try, we cant be up our childrens butts 24/7 and things are bound to happen. Kids, unfortunately, have a natural curosity and tend to get into things they are not supposed to. Grandma was not a junkie, she was a cancer patient and unless you have suffered the pain of an illness that severe, who are you to judge her? I am assuming that you are some hopeless basement dweller trolling on a news site wishing you could get laid.

The fact is, she gave a minor drugs

Really because from everything the cops have for evidence you seem to be lying. The kid got into them. She didn't give him nothing but a crappy sweater

Weed cookies cant kill you!!

There has never been a documented case of marijuana overdose. FYI

In order for a human to consume enough marijuana to be fatal, they would have to consume nearly 40,000 times the amount of THC required to intoxicate them. In contrast, it only requires about 5 to 10 times the amount of alcohol required to intoxicate, to be fatal. For example, if it requires 3 beers to intoxicate you, it only requires 15 to 30 beers to kill you. However, if it takes you 3 'hits' of marijuana to intoxicate you, it would require 120,000 hits to kill you. Thus, it is virtually impossible to die of a marijuana overdose.

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They do lock people up for child neglect. Hell, they'll take your kid away if, in their opinion, the kid has eaten too many regular cookies.

It's no different from a 3 year old finding some chocolate liqueur and drinking some. It was in an appropriate place, but sometimes kids get into stuff. Sometimes kids eat poison. Now she'll just have to figure out a better place to put her medicine. It would be a horrible tragedy if this ended up in the courts. It is over, and it should be over.

I think the FDA should be charged with negligence! It seems that this plant has medicinal values, however they wont push for it because lobbyists from Pharma dont want free medicine to be available. Alcohol companies also dont want people to have free recreational items available.

Here we have a grandmother who did keep it away, however a child got to it....imagine you had tyleonol in you medicine cabinet, and a child got to it and thought it was candy! Same difference! Except tylonol is synthetic and bad for you!

That kid will be smiling for a month. If anything toxic had happened to the little tyke, it would be the first time I've ever heard of anyone being harmed by marijuana without law enforcement help. I suppose Gramma should have kept the cookies in the medicine cabinet with all of the real poisons from Pharma that certainly would have harmed the child as they have so many adults.

And for you backward types only: Marijuana is NOT A DRUG. In fact, Cannabis was foundational to the growth of America. George Washington (you remember who that is, I hope) said, "Plant hemp everywhere!" (really). Take his word for it, he never lied. How do you think a podunk bunch of colonialists beat the world's most powerful army of the time?? Pot (and, of course, the French, to whom in our American way we give absolutely no credit for handing us freedom, liberty, and our United States (which WE (well, you) are helping to turn into a corporate fascist state). I understand that you personally don't like it because it makes you think and that hurts your head, the unaccustomed brain exercise, but, again, Marijuana is NOT A DRUG. OxyContin is a DRUG, a poisonous drug. Oxycodone is a drug, a poisonous drug. Ethanol (alcohol to you) is NOT a drug, it's an industrial solvent and fuel whose effects could better be had by sniffing gasoline (it takes much less to attain the desired level of stupidity so less effect on the liver). No cure for stu....

Good thing cannabis is no more toxic than h20. Infact if you drink too much h20 you can die, not so with cannabis.

So child endangerment?

It would only be child endangerment to give your kid too much candy or junk food because that would kill/hurt them before cannabis does.

Dr. Derek: I assume you have done extensive studies into the effects of marijuana on toddlers and have received your Phd and or multiple grants for the studies as part of your licensed medical practice....

NO... then STFU, since you have no clue what you are talking about.

The parents in this case did the right thing. They reported the incident to the local authorities. Quite often when paramedics/ambulance are dispatched, so are police. The police end up writing up the incident, which they turn over to prosecutors who make a determination if a criminal charge is warranted in the "iffy" cases. The parents could not know if the child ate the pot cookies, they just suspected because he would not wake up. They also don't know what dangerous affect, if any, eating the pot cookies would have on a toddler.

BTW, in case you hadn't heard, marijuana is still a drug and it is still illegal in the United States. If you don't believe that, try taking some onto an airplane or into a federal court house.

Some idiot in the conversation suggested "discipling the kid for getting into things he wasnt supposed to" seriously?? THAT is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. He ate a COOKIE ! Just like any 3 y/o would ! And that is where the problem lies with granny and child endangerment. IF the boy had come across grandmas pot he most likely wouldnt have eaten it. And even if he did, he would have spit it back out. Not very good tasting. BUT she put it in something that is very appealing to a young child and then the family left him unsupervised. Cant ya'll see the difference? or just too stoned??

she kept them in a small fridge in the garage hidden. i would say better than the kitchen fridge? they might have been kept there to keep soft. are they to keep a fridge in their bedroom when the kids come to visit?

1, it was pot, good pot, but the outcome was... yup the kid is stoned still, let him sleep it off, and to have a bag of chips or cakes ready for when he wakes up.

2, how do some people survive without turning every little thing, into some kind of drama?

Thankfully weed isn't known to cause death directly. This could have been a lot worse.

Mike-3556589

Rick, many things which are non-toxic at a certain level become toxic at a very high level.

Even drinking too much water can be fatal.

Really Mike? Show me the stats.... show me the level at which ingesting a certain amount of cannabis becomes toxic. You CAN'T. All you can do is speculate that that is true - but it's not. Yes, water can be fatal, causing what is known as hyponatremia. Show me the name they call it when you die from cannabis overdose... and once again, the answer is... you can't.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
                      Drug Enforcement Administration 

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                                       )
  In The Matter Of                     )
                                       )              Docket No. 86-22
     MARIJUANA RESCHEDULING PETITION   )
_______________________________________) 


                OPINION AND RECOMMENDED RULING, FINDINGS OF
                  FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND DECISION OF
                       Administrative LAW JUDGE. 

FRANCIS L. YOUNG, Administrative Law Judge 

DATED: SEP 6  1988 

FRANCIS L. YOUNG, Administrative Law Judge

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Part VIII.

ACCEPTED SAFETY FOR USE UNDER MEDICAL SUPERVISION

     With respect to whether or not there is "a lack of accepted safety
for use of [marijuana] under medical supervision", the record shows the
following facts to be uncontroverted.

Findings of Fact
  
Point 3. The most obvious concern when dealing with drug safety is the possibility of lethal effects. Can the drug cause death?
4. Nearly all medicines have toxic, potentially lethal effects. But   marijuana is not such a substance. There is no record in the extensive   medical literature describing a proven, documented cannabis-induced   fatality.
5. This is a remarkable statement. First, the record on marijuana   encompasses 5,000 years of human experience. Second, marijuana is now   used daily by enormous numbers of people throughout the world. Estimates   suggest that from twenty million to fifty million Americans routinely,   albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct  medical  supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the   extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no   credible medical reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a   single death.
6. By contrast aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year.
7. Drugs used in medicine are routinely given what is called an   LD-50. The LD-50 rating indicates at what dosage fifty percent of test   animals receiving a drug will die as a result of drug induced toxicity. A   number of researchers have attempted to determine marijuana's LD-50   rating in test animals, without success. Simply stated, researchers have   been unable to give animals enough marijuana to induce death.
8. At present it is estimated that marijuana's LD-50 is around
1:20,000 or 1:40,000. In layman terms this means that in order to   induce death a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000   times as much marijuana as is contained in onemarijuana cigarette.   NIDA-supplied marijuana cigarettes weigh approximately .9 grams. A   smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of   marijuana within about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response.
9. In practical terms, marijuana cannot induce a lethal response as a result of drug-related toxicity.
10. Another common medical way to determine drug safety is called the   therapeutic ratio. This ratio defines the difference between a   therapeutically effective dose and a dose which is capable of inducing   adverse effects.
11. A commonly used over-the-counter product like aspirin has a   therapeutic ratio of around 1:20. Two aspirins are the recommended dose   for adult patients. Twenty times this dose, forty aspirins, may cause a   lethal reaction in some patients, and will almost certainly cause  gross  injury to the digestive system, including extensive internal  bleeding.
12. The therapeutic ratio for prescribed drugs is commonly around   1:10 or lower. Valium, a commonly used prescriptive drug, may cause very   serious biological damage if patients use ten times the recommended   (therapeutic) dose.
13. There are, of course, prescriptive drugs which have much lower   therapeutic ratios. Many of the drugs used to treat patients with   cancer, glaucoma and multiple sclerosis are highly toxic. The   therapeutic ratio of some of the drugs used in antineoplastic therapies,   for example, are regarded as extremely toxic poisons with therapeutic   ratios that may fall below 1:1.5. These drugs also have very low LD-50   ratios and can result in toxic, even lethal reactions, while being   properly employed.
14. By contrast, marijuana's therapeutic ratio, like its LD-50, is impossible to quantify because it is so high.
15. In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we   commonly consume. For example, eating ten raw potatoes can result in a   toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat  enough  marijuana to induce death.
16. Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest   therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of   rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within a supervised   routine of medical care."

Damn that's long.

I'm glad my Mom wasn't arrested for my ingestion of baby aspirin as a child. I thought it was "candy" as it was orange flavored. Only when I waved the bottle in her face asking for more did she realize what I had done. She was busy yapping on the phone.

Mouzie, it looks as though you are still buzzing a bit. ;)

Am I the only bastard in the world that thinks this is funny? Get the kid something crunchy and some cartoons, he will be set for a day or two!

truth is it will be in his system for up to 22 days...maybe less because of his size and metabolism

......honestly if a kid got into a bag of splenda they would probably have been rushed to the hospital immediately

"family members could potentially face a child endangerment charge. "

Wow.

The "authorities" would be blowing this situation wayy out of proportion to the occurrence. Just drop any further action on this situation; that would be the best thing to do about the granny and the baby. The baby did not even get The Munchies.

You can't 'OD' on pot. It's next to impossible because the LD50 value of it is so ridiculously high for oral consumption it would be impossible to obtain that much THC in marijuana and eat it.

And being 3 isn't hard. You have carte blanche to go to the bathroom wherever. You're fed, clothed, bathed at regular intervals. You have no real responsibilities. Being 3 is awesome.

ODing on pot - LOL. Whatever. Now go have a drink.

yeah, I'll bet he was terrified, not lucid, calm, and sleeping...

lol some of these comments

She needs to lock up her medicine .....Thank god he didn't eat pharma meds he would be dead.

thanks for participating

Reminds me of that cop and his wife who after ingesting mj called 911 and stated, "I think we are dead".

Sane Central...Re: cop.. No..just your career!

Since he is too young to be indoctrinated with the evils of drugs, he probably got a little hungry, laughed some, and hit the hay. The only part that probably freaked him out was everyone else freaking out.

I smell a skunk and it's not the cookie. Have you ever known a three year old to only eat one cookie?? If you had a three year old that went to sleep at 5 pm, whould you not be a little concerned?

cue a bunch of ignorant ranters, who themselves have batches of prescription drugs in their medicine cabinet unlocked.

if YOU have prescription drugs in YOUR medicine cabinet unlocked, SHUT t f UP!!!!

and as you noticed, the child was observed and sent home. why? because MARIUANA CANNOT KILL YOU! no mater how much the kid ate he'd stil be fine, if not delirious a day later. it CAN'T poison yoiu because its NOT POISON.

yes, the grandma is as dumb as anybody else who leaves ANYTHING dangerous out a kid can grab for even a second. but so are YOU AND I. everybody makes mistakes. ever leave a sharp kitchen knife out and realize it?

then YOU are NO better.

so stop the sanctimony. and be very glad it wasnt grammas blood pressure medicine or oxycontin which so many of you take you would never say a word.

be glad it wasnt the legal BOOZE. cause then harm could have been done.

no Lost Poet, I would be extatic. I would be able to get some crap done around the house for a change. I have three kids. Sometimes they do go to sleep really early.

LOL! I laughed when you said you'd be extatic Fortunate Musician, but that is my point. I would be too... if that ever happend. Mine's just shifting gears at 5.

You can't die from pot, but you can sure as hell feel like you're going to.

Believer,

You have a certain point, but don't you think that a cookie on a refrigerator shelf that a 3 year old can reach, might be more of a temptation than a pill high up in a medicine cabinet in a child-proof bottle.

Ummm, Believer, I don't think there are too many people ranting and bitching about the dangers of weed and not locking the medicine cabinet (refrigerator in this case). From what I see, most people are on the family's side and feel sorry for them in this situation.

Believer - You are the reason people think Marijuana shouldn't be legal. You are more annoying than people that rant about the dangers.

might be more of a temptation than a pill high up in a medicine cabinet in a child-proof bottle.

but only if you can prove thast how the meds are kept....either way...if someone practices saftey with children then it usually applies to all things...ima say there were probably pill bottles left out too....most ppl who smoke ...want to do it again...so they keep it hidden so nobody takes their stash....kids should be banned from this home..just to set an example without imprisonment.

Thank you. That idiot in the first thread saying grandma should be locked up, I bet his beer is in the kitchen fridge, bottom shelf.

This headline seems misleading. It doesn't seem that the hospital did anything, the kid just got over it.

If the kid had gotten into prescription pain killers the results would have been much more severe -- and the family probably wouldn't have to suffer child endangerment charges -- it would have been seen as a tragic accident.

If you know anything about the chemistry, you know that THC doesn't affect the autonomous brain receptors like narcotics do, and therefore it is impossible to overdose.

Yep! The whole thing is a reaction based on Drug War hype in the public eye and nothing else of actual toxic relevance.

Those "legal" things are legal for her, but not for a 3 year old. She needs to be more careful as to not let him get into ANYTHING that can potentially harm him.

Especially, she should not let a 3 year old wander around in a garage unsupervised. There are lots of things in a garage that can kill a kid. The marijuana mentioned in the story is the media going crazy and playing up a "magical buzz word". (PUN INTENDED).

"Magical buzz word" ROFL!!! Too bad I can only like it once... :)

help is coming i agree and like someone posted above...she is lucky he didnt climb in the fridge....omg how horrible that would have been ...or the laundry machine .....its about child safty when visiting relatives, not about pot

No damage. A good lesson for all that have read this article. Childproof anything and everything you do not want children to get into and I mean anything. Unless those articles are locked up, they will find them. I do not consider this as criminal activity.

My God. More Goverment Control. Will it ever stop?

I spilled water on the floor. My 3 year old slipped and sprained her wrist. I guess there should be a law that you must clean up spilled water within 3 seconds or face arrest.

ever notice how righties always throw their supposed love of freedom and aversion to government control any time they are afraid of something? cause i do.

always lookin for a scapegoat or father figure..

Believer

What are you trying to say. Scratching my head here.

how its hypocritical of righties to say they love freedom and hate government intrusion, but they are always the ones on these threads and in the general public looking to pass a law or voice against drugs or have someone arrested or ban something or make laws regulating womens bodies, the most government intrusive thing POSSIBLE.

abject, repeated hypocrisy. and it needs to be called out more and more.

believer, most of the scared commenters are in the squishy middle of the political spectrum. The only way they are "righties" is that they are to the right of Marx or Obama. Save your supposedly righteous indignation, hypocrite. You want the government to control our lives... except for drugs? You are almost living in your liberal paradise, just a little more government control.

@believerof

ever notice how righties always throw their supposed love of freedom and aversion to government control any time they are afraid of something? cause i do.

Yeah, I'm sure you "notice" that every evil in the world can be traced back to "righties".

btw, Do you want a cracker Polly?

yeah, what is worse government in our lives when it comes law, or government in our lives when it comes to how we should live our lives. Conservatives always want to control our so called morals to be like theirs and that's wrong. we should be able to do with our bodies as we like, love who we want etc.....

believerof think ur the first political nut here....grats...was waiting for it

lu-2005066 what is your non-converative leader telling you about pot?

@believerof, @lu

Your comments describe fundamental Christian conservatives. There are MANY conservatives that believe the government should get their hands our of our pockets and their restrictions out of our lives. More libertarian / Constitutional focused views. The only laws should be to arbitrate where one's freedom infringes on another's rights.

yeah, cause everyone knows that fridges that can lock are safe around kids...

I had a fridge in the garage full of liquor. I had a padlock on it. My teenage daughter and her friend simply pulled the hinge pins and opened it right up. I had suspected something was going on and caught them on video.

yeah, my friend's dad in a similar situation just left a note asking his son to please quit watering down his booze to hide the fact it was disappearing...

My brother did the same thing - watered down the vodka bottle which was senseless as my parents were given the bottle and it sat there for years. That and the Mogan David wine (shuddering.) If he had taken it they would never had noticed. Ah yes, childhood memories.

Baja5B - I had one of those "creative" teenage daughters, too. Wasn't that fun? Not.

Not sure about y'all but I think there's a difference in the sneak level of a three year old versus a teen.

u didnt know my sisters 3yr old....what a mess...could climb anything no matter how high...insited on wanting to jump into the livinig room from the loft upstairs....you could not keep him in a car seat ever...my sister could not leave her house until he was 7! so i dont know about the teen vs. 3...its just diffrent...teens know about poison i guess

I was one of those "creative" teenagers.

Twinkies!

Ice cream!

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Oh, I didn't know it helped you through your period...

Mark_DW - of course it does. Try it next time you are cramping.

Yeah, it turns your period into an exclamation mark!!!!

Best thing ever for your period, better than any over the counter or regular meds., plus you mellow out and don't feel like killing everyone who touches your chocolate stash!

My mother, who has passed now, often used cannabis. For herself during her monthly cycle, and for us kids on nights she needed some sleep. She would add about an eight of an ounce of powdered pot to spaghetti sauce, and call it her 'special spaghetti'. My sisters and I loved it. She had another variant where she put it in chili.

Frankly, anyone against pot is ignorant and/or paranoid. If you have experience with pot, or being around potheads, then you know they are in control much better than ANY other kind of intoxicant and safer too.

Pot was not made illegal because it was dangerous, but because it was favored by Latinos and Blacks. Anti-pot laws were really all about supressing minorities. There never was any other reason to outlaw cannabis back then - it was all about keeping the "darkies down".

Now, you have the liquor industry and big pharma against it, because they fear lost revenues.

Frankly, I would rather see my kids stoned on pot than drunk or strung-out on medicinals or smoking cigarettes.

Who created cannabis? Oh yeah, God did. See Genesis about the Herb and who it was given to.

Not to mention mice or spiders. My garage always has black widows. A widow bite can kill a 3yr old.

Maybe Grandma should go with smoking big Bob Marley spliffs out behind the garage and leave the cookies undosed and in the cookie jar...

or maybe we should let people be? kids do stupid things, stupid kids do even dumber things- its how we thin the herd. what i want to know is how the heck we survived this long with children this retarded

A 3-year-old who finds cookies and eats some is retarded? What did you expect him to do, build a tower out of them?

aggrevatedofficeworker i dont agree, but it was funny

It's an already debunked Drug War myth that what's around today is many times more potent than what was around in the '60's. The schwag may have been more commonly available, but the top grades of the hippy days, Kona, Oaxacan, Thai or Buddha Stick, Columbian Gold and Panama Red was every bit as good as what's around today.

"while it's true that adults can't OD on pot, I'm not sure how accurate that is for little kids"

I think it's proportional to body mass, so a child could potentially ingest enough pot to OD. Luckily that we're not finding out whether or not that's true and this kid is just fine.

No a child could not ingest enough to die. The stomach simply isn't big enough. An adult would have to consume some 600 POUNDS in a relatively short period of time to die.

Can you say "not likely"? I'm sure you can. It's easier to say than IMPOSSIBLE.

I guarantee there wasn't enough cookies in the fridge to kill anyone.

It is scientifically and physically impossible to OD on POT.

And the stuff today, while good, isn't any stronger than the stuff 40 years ago, or 2500 years ago, or 5000 years ago.

nope, still not possible. do some research. the only way he could have died is if he choked and asphyxiated on them.

as much as brainwashed people want to make some way, any way, that he could have overdosed, it is simply not possible. you are JUST PLAIN WRONG.

In case y'all stopped reading half-way throught the story, the kid is fine. He did not OD. Must've been quite a trip though.

"Trip?" No.

NAP! Yes.

Chris-Cannabis is cannabis there is no "new" pot thats drug war propaganda. Whether its Acapulco gold or Kush or Thai stick levels have always existed. Police go much harder after MJ.

Hakon,

Don't fool yourself. Given his body mass, that kid was tripping balls. Edibles can approach higher level hallucinogens even for adults.

A study was done to find the LD50 of pot.(LD50 equates to 50% of the tested, or more, died) The research was quite flawed, but what was found was: It took 2.2 pounds of pure THC injected directly into the heart to kill. THAT is the flaw of this study. 2.2 pounds of ANYTHING injected into your heart....WILL KILL YOU.

( Mice were used in this study....the 2.2lbs were arrived at by taking the dose given to the mouse, and evaluating that dose compared to a 160lb human.)

JM - don't fool yourself into thinking you know more about it than people who actually use it. The kid wasn't hallucinating...he was sleeping. Try reading the story and not ad-libbing.

Further POT is not a hallucinogen contrary to what the "media and government" tells you.

Oh hey...let's talk about all those drug crazed Mexicans and blacks who only want to rape white women ...and dare to look a white man in the eyes. (Read the Congressional Transcripts 1937)

That "is the story" that was fabricated to start the insanity of the WAR ON DRUGS.

Hakon,

See, I am actually in the "the war on drugs is stupid" camp.

But you do no one any favors by minimizing the effect of edible pot on the body. Even seasoned mj users will tell you that taking too large a dose of edibles will make you trip balls FOR A LONG TIME. This is a fact. Will it kill you? No. Will it make you flat out trip like shrooms or LSD? No. Can you get high as @!$%# out of your head? Hell yes. and that is what I meant by this kid must have been tripping balls.

And yes, I know cause I've made that mistake before (eating too many cookies because the it was taking tool long to kick in). I think a lot of MJ users have.

Yeah, they will be roaring after spending mega bucks on lawyers and fighting child protective services.

HELLO! Dark Side of the Moon, maybe.

He's a "Viola Lee Blues" kid...

Hands down it was Comfortably Numb

I'm going to bet they stuck him in front of a TV. I'm guessing he wanted to watch Barney the Dinosaur only to realize in his stoned 3 year old mind what a dumba$$ show it is and changed the channel to some Warner Brothers cartoons like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Smart television.

No no no - Dazed and Confused or Fastimes at Ridgemont High.

This should be the real question. Why was a 3 year old left unsupervised in a garage?

Grandma is sick with cancer and has a medical prescription ya twit.

Yeah, you are right. She should have 10 prescription bottles instead of MMJ.

Sucks that she has cancer but if she isn't able to ensure that kids won't get in any medication then they shouldn't be over there without a parent.

Possibly, she might have 10 prescription bottles. One could be Marinol-that way she wouldn't even have to worry about keeping cookies away from her grandkids and there is the added benefit of not inhaling the carcinogens in pot.

Yes. And tobacco takes away your health with alcohol taking lives and tearing family apart.. but the green monster is worst!

Only dumb people think Marijuana is a drug.

Look up "drug" in the dictionary. Alcohol is a drug too, and a very dangerous one. Tobacco causes lung cancer. That doesn't change the fact that pot is a drug

nhomers reveals his or her inability to look at the picture for what it is. Thinking if grandma had just been smart enough to have a Marinol prescription this sort of thing wouldn't happen. Just think what would have happened if the kid had gotten a hold of that Marinol.-? And don't even try and schmooze it over by saying it was more likely for the kid to grab a cookie and eat it than take a little pill from grandma's bottles of pills. If bud were lying around I suppose the 3 yr old likely would have smoked it?

"Sucks that she has cancer but if she isn't able to ensure that kids won't get in any medication then they shouldn't be over there without a parent."

Pssst hey Mr. Iknowitall Grandma is/was a parent. She had them "tucked away in the garage" sh%% happens.

"Possibly, she might have 10 prescription bottles. One could be Marinol-that way she wouldn't even have to worry about keeping cookies away from her grandkids"

You mean this cool stuff???

What side effects can this medication cause?

Dronabinol may cause side effects. Tell your doctor if any of these symptoms are severe or do not go away:

• weakness

• sudden warm feeling

• stomach pain

• nausea

• vomiting

• memory loss

• anxiety

• confusion

• dizziness

• unsteady walking

• feeling like you are outside of your body

• ''high'' or elevated mood

• hallucinations (seeing things or hearing voices that do not exist)

• sleepiness

• strange or unusual thoughts

Some side effects can be serious. If you experience any of these symptoms, call your doctor immediately:

• seizures

• fast or pounding heartbeat

Dronabinol may cause other side effects. Call your doctor if you have any unusual problems while taking this medication.

WOW a drug to fight nausea that may actually cause nausea or worse! Brilliant!

"and there is the added benefit of not inhaling the carcinogens in pot."

She was eating it! geeeeezzzzz!

"It takes away your motivation and you become careless. Kids shouldn't be at grandma's if she can't keep her drugs away from them."

Try reading comprehension. Grandma wasn't babysitting or watching the kids. The AUNT was the one babysitting. And you are so ignorant about MJ it's obvious you know nothing and have never done any research on the matter.

My main question would be, why was the kid alone unsupervised in a garage when he is only 3 years old?

Pothead? Drug war propaganda still works by the looks of nhomers comment.

big freaking deal!Grandma did her best to keep the cookies (good enough for me) ...nothing more expected from ingesting the THC than sleep. Sure better than bleach! Face it America many folks use pot responsibly. What if your child falls and hits his or her head do the need to be involved? the only med that helped me through chemo was marinol RX...It's over and done unless those who come from the dark ages have nothing better to do than to hide there heads in the sand.

Funyuns, no. Cheetos - YES!!!! And a Snickers bar.

I wonder who made the taco bell run for him?

Oh no - now you had to bring up Taco Bell. Burrito Supreme, please. Make that 3. No wait - make that 2 and add a Chicken Taco. No wait, add a tostada. What sauces? Oh Mother of Mary what do I do now?????

Looks like you better make a run! I'll take an Enchirito with sour cream....

They should serve him a nice big bowl of Cereal with extra cold milk. Yummy peanut butter Cheerios or Sugar Frosted Flakes would be great.

Serve him something with just a little nutritional value guys.

What you talking about? Its a Ben & Jerry's breakfast all the way! OK if you want to make it good for them also throw some Captain Crunch on top.

LOL!!! Ok, guys, getting hungry here, and haven't indulged. I'll take some haagen daas, Honey Bee Vanilla, please.

Ummmmm - Frosted Flakes. Breakfast (or lunch/dinner/late night) of champions. Or....a donut(s).

Because alcohol tastes like crap when you're a kid.

Pretty much tastes like crap when you are an adult too! LOL. I don't know many people that drink whiskey for the flavor - even veteran bums make a face after the first swigg.

Ironic, ain't it?

I would suspect a sip of bourbon would be pretty shocking to a 3 year old. Now, those pot cookies were probably mighty tasty.

In order for a human to consume enough marijuana to be fatal, they would have to consume nearly 40,000 times the amount of THC required to intoxicate them. In contrast, it only requires about 5 to 10 times the amount of alcohol required to intoxicate, to be fatal. For example, if it requires 3 beers to intoxicate you, it only requires 15 to 30 beers to kill you. However, if it takes you 3 'hits' of marijuana to intoxicate you, it would require 120,000 hits to kill you. Thus, it is virtually impossible to die of a marijuana overdose.

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"Drug: a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being."

Drug is a word alone. From there we have to get into what sort of drug it is and what's it's well known to do and why. This is where to start as to the seriousness of this matter. The parents were paranoid and buy into the hype, otherwise no such hospital visit needed to occur. I refuse to believe the child would not wake up at all as is implied by the article to make it all seem so concerning. Sure, a parent wants to make sure they didn't get a hold of something that really is toxic, but I really doubt the child displayed such conditions as to create so much alarm on the part of his parents.

But is a drug-no matter how harmless it is.

nhomers, like others, clings to the word, "drug" alone in the hopes it alone has any real impact.

Better put down that caffene, it's very, very dangerous.

Steve Rhan clings to his ignorance in the hopes that he can find a way to prove that Marijuana has never negatively affected anyone who has ever smoked it.

Better put down that weed, it's never going to be legal.

nhomers, the key word there being "chemical". Pot is not a chemical it is a naturally grown plant. Therefore not a "drug" in the traditional sense of the word that you are trying to put across. Marlboro's, Camels, Cools, Winston's, Pall Mall's - now THOSE are more dangerous, addictive and harmful than pot and has a more negative impact that pot. No one has died of lung cancer from pot.

Right. A "drug" is a "chemical substance", implying a refined or purified, rather than natural, item. Cannabis is a plant. That plant contains substances that could be made into a drug (Marinol).

Poppies, coca, coffee beans, and tomatoes are plants.

Morphine, cocaine, caffeine, and Ateronon are drugs manufactured from those plants.

It is technically a drug, now is it a dangerous one? No.

nhomers - you do know that it is legal places, right? Crawl out from under the rock and do some research first before trying your false scare tactics.

I think the word "Drug" is being confused with the word "Narcotic" here. Pot is definitely a drug but not a narcotic. There are no known cases of Marijuana overdoses resulting in death...ever!

Of course that's not the case with Alcohol, Cocaine, Meth, most prescription medications and Tylenol for that matter.

nhomers, the key word there being "chemical". Pot is not a chemical it is a naturally grown plant. Therefore not a "drug" in the traditional sense of the word that you are trying to put across. Marlboro's, Camels, Cools, Winston's, Pall Mall's - now THOSE are more dangerous, addictive and harmful than pot and has a more negative impact that pot. No one has died of lung cancer from pot.

It is a naturally grown plant, until it is smoked then there are chemicals that do affect your body. Tetrahydrocannabinol is a psychoactive chemical in cannabis along with the other 400 chemicals that have been found in cannabis extracts. Many of these chemicals are considered carcinogens and are also found in tobacco.

How can you possible know that no one has ever died of lung cancer from pot?

nhomers,

California has had legal medicinal pot since 1995. It didn't explode, implode, go up in flames, had zombies roaming the streets, etc. Now, it is still a @!$%#hole of a state, but that wasn't caused by the pot smokers (I can say that 'cause I lived there for many years).

Don't you think it's about time we try a new approach to the whole "war on drugs" thing? Pot is many times more available now than it has ever been. It is obvious that prohibition does not work. All it's doing is bankrupting us and putting money in the pockets of criminals. Stop the criminal-system/industrial complex crap and legalize it already.

You sound like a conservative fellow. At the very least the fiscal realities of pot prohibition should open your eyes.

Oh and although there may be carcinogens in pot, the fact that you can get high on two hits of 15% THC pot means that you are unlikely to smoke 20 joints a day. Also, pot can be eaten, drank, or vaporized so there are ways to consume it while minimizing the dangers of lung cancer.

Because they have not died from lung cancer. THC inhibits cancer cells. If one just ONE case existed the prohibitionist idiots n^^^^ would use that as another scare tactic.

nhomers,

You are absolutely correct about there being carcinogens and 400 chemicals in pot. What you don't point out is how common carcinogens are and how relatively harmless it is in small doses. Everyday foods such as meats with preservatives and aspartame contain known carcinogens. The carcinogens found in marijuana can actually inhibit cancer cells unlike the carcinogens in tobacco. Also big whoop if there are 400 chemicals in marijuana, a cup of joe can contain a 1000 chemicals..... Seriously I'm a conservative but this whole thing is ridiculous. People like you (typical Republicans) is why so many of us are changing our affiliation to Libertarianism.

The kid is going to be fine. You can't die from a marijuana overdose, it simply isn't possible. If the kid had gotten into his Grandmother's Oxycodone stash he's be dead, granted that Oxy tastes like @!$%# and a kid is likely to spit out the first pill he puts in his mouth. The grandmother should keep he edibles out of reach.

the kid is 3 years old. The doses were meant for an adult woman. This is deff no joke. Pot can make an adult very ill if they are sensitive to it.

and making it sound poison is exactly the purpose.

Well that certainly is a leading (or misleading) statement isn't it?

"Pot can make an adult very ill if they are sensitive to it".

Ill as in "upset" that they are around someone who is using it?

Ill as in "alergic to it"? (Don't know of any reported alergic cases)

Ill how?

Pot doesn't make you sick. It keeps you from throwing your guts up when you are feeling sick.

Duh...

And people want to legalize marijuana? Do you want someone who has been smoking pot driving a car headed toward you?

I work in a hospital and have seen the effects of what the illegal form of pot and the legalized prescribed pill form does to people. It is not a safe drug. IT IS A DRUG with mind altering effects.

Give that granny the charge of providing a minor or endangerment/neglect and throw her *!@ in jail!