We have to let them vote if we want 18 year olds in the military, we can't send people out to die and not let them get a say in what our government's doing. And, ugly as the reality is, we can't raise enlistment age to the more sensible 23-25 (when the brain completes development), because our enlistment would drop drastically.

Seems the more developed your brain is the less likely you want to join the military.

hwilson

We have to let them vote if we want 18 year olds in the military, we can't send people out to die and not let them get a say in what our government's doing.

Hence the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1971. In the 40 years before 18-year olds could vote, we elected FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnston and Nixon. In the 40 years since, we have elected Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Shrub and Obama. You be the judge of which were the better choices overall.

Idiots, it's dimwits like these who give the anti-marijuana nazis ammo to keep pot illegal.

NAZI'S MAN. They're everywhere. Although the correct liberal hippie pot head term used these days to complain about DA MAN is to call them 'Rumsfeld'. For instance, 'Yo can I get a dollar?' 'No, get a job.' 'Rumsfeld!'.

The more you know.

I've met some idiots that are 30 years old. Basic moral of the story, stupidity has no age restrictions.

Yeah, right. The class pot-party morons get sick and throw these two under the bus after they go to the hospital. No wonder too. The doctors are going to figure out what they all had. The whole lot of them should be jailed illegal drugs, reckless endangerment of the rest of the school and for using the school and the class for running their drug-den. It's at UC too. No wonder there. 99% of the UC student body are the entitled-from-birth spoiled-brat offspring of the 1% fat-cat money vampires that are destroying this country.

The headline is extremely misleading. They did not feed them pot brownies, they fed them brownies laced with THC. While THC is the active ingredient in marijuana, using it alone allowed them to put far more of the drug into the brownies than they would have been able to with simple marijuana brownies. This probably is what accounts for the extreme reactions the professor and some of the students had to the brownies. Not only did these two idiots illegally drug their classmates and professor, they used far too much THC and could have ended up killing someone through their stupidity. I am all for legalizing marijuana as I do not think it is any more dangerous than alcohol. However, I think that these two deserve long prison sentences for what they have done. No one has the right to trick someone else into taking any kind of drug. This could have had very severe consequences for one of the people they drugged. Had any of those people been on any one of a number of medications they could have had a severe reaction and died from this idiotic stunt.

JS, there is no way these two isolated just the THC and added it to brownies. It was more than likely laced butter that they substituted for the oil. Also, not one person has ever died from ingesting Cannabis alone and never will, these people just freaked out because they didn't know what was happening to them.

The guy involved here was 21 which was the old voting age. Further what does this article have to do with voting age at all?

"An investigation revealed that the three hospitalized victims - and five other classmates - were suffering from the effects of marijuana, police said. The three hospitalized victims have since been released."

The five "other classmates" were found placing orders at a nearby Taco Bell...

Heroin and meth can cause your death. On the other hand, you just can't ingest enough THC fast enough to cause death. If you could, it would have happened already.

I love edibles but sneaking them on unsuspecting people is wrong. Not funny, CU students.

of coarse you all know this was a stunt to stop the legalization of pot.

Can you provide a link? I just can't find that information anywhere.

IMHO-2730490 and IMHO you are both correct. Psychologically the flight or fight system has not fully developed in your teen through 23 years of age. Once a person, under normal circumstances, has reached the age of 24 they become more cognitive of the value of life and conservation. No one is saying they are chickens or without bravery but more cautious in putting their life in danger once they have had time to consider what it is they are fighting for. In most instances if there is no imminent threat a person with a cognitive and developed brain will avoid danger. Hence the desire of the DOD to acquire young people at the age of 18, break them down and then rebuild their minds to submission and to fight under orders. Simple psychology that has been know for quite some decades or closer to 100 years.

During the 60's and 70's young people including Bush Dubya, Limbaugh, Gingrich and others knew the fight or flight and were not willing to put theirselves in harms way for a war they did not believe in. Of course many young men took off to Canada because they had come to the realization of what the Vietnam war could do to them. If an imminent threat had confronted all of them I would postulate they would fight back provided they had a weapon to engage or if being mugged the same response. During that time there were many protests by the younger generation and a famous chant, "Hell no we won't go" and many questions were being asked why did they have to go to war or be part of a draft when they had no say in our government since they could not vote until.

During that era you could not vote or take a drink until you were 21 but you could be sent to combat to serve up your life. Many parents began questioning this too specifically after the Kent State melee. Those were the days that did change America and for the better. J.Edgar Hoover lost much of his sinister power to spy and keep records on common citizens because they did not agree with the Establishment. You might ask, "What happened to the First Amendment ?" So did many millions of others of that era. Alas the Federal Government via Congress and Senate had to address this shortcoming that almost destroyed America. Many young men and women were beaten, arrested, thrown in jail or killed over these inalienable rights.

Of course not many if any Senators' sons or the wealthy went to war in Vietnam either during those days only the economically less fortunate and the disenfranchised did by the thousands who won the lottery and received a draft notice. A lottery that was rigged since our SSN determines our birth origins and does to this day. The first three digits discloses which state you were born. Now you have it as experienced first hand.

Dennis Young - With rocket scientists like these two "students" on the loose do we really want to continue to let people 18 years old vote...I think maybe 30 would be a better minimum age option.

Same suggestion should apply to becoming parents.

Please do not judge the entirety of people from 18-30 because these two students are morons.

Thank you.

You're full of it, or just plain misinformed, if you think THC will kill you in the amounts any person can smoke or eat. Maybe if you injected a sh*tload directly into someone's veins it might, but so would almost any other edible chemical in large amounts(sugar/caffeine/salt).

I have personally experienced, and have seen others experiment with, how much THC a body can handle. After a certain point, you just pass out and sleep it off.

NO ONE HAS EVER DIED FROM OF TOO MUCH THC/MARIJUANA, unless they were allergic to it(like some are with peanuts/shelfish, or if the mixed marijuana with alcohol and/or other drugs, and then had an accident).

You can indeed isolate THC by cooking/simmering the marijuana in butter or other oils, and straining it. The resulting butter has high THC content, and none of the green/vegetable matter of the actual marijuana buds/leaves(if you strain it correctly).

Those kids were wrong for giving their classmates THC laced brownies, without their consent.

@Intellect...your agrument about the draft lottery being rigged might make sense, except for the fact that people weren't drafted by their ssn, they were drafted by their birthdate. Nice try...well, not really.

Bottom line is, those with money/power can always find ways to keep their kids out of a draft.

Or you can do what Ted Nugent did and sh*t your pants for a week, and then walk in the draft center and act crazy.

Mark, You forgot one minor point. Your right on the birthdate, however, for reasons unknown, they would stop with a lottery number and move on to the next. If they went by everyones birthdate, possibly people born after (pick a date) Sep 1 would never be drafted. A good read is the democratic and republican leaders during the vietnam war and whose sons did not serve, or served in non hazardous positions. You'll be surprised.

Thomas,

The birthdates were picked by lottery - not in chronological order.

Thomas, the reason many of the "privileged" who's number was drawn high did not go is that they were given the hard-to-get spots in the National Guard, which in those days meant you almost certainly were not going over. You didn't just sign up for the guard and get in like you can now. Connections got you in, and kept you stateside. Prime example (but certainly not the only one, for either party affiliation) is GW Bush.

mdwelch is right, it was a lottery, and every birthdate was drawn. Look up "draft lottery" on Google and you'll see the order which the dates were drawn for every year there was a lottery.

youre both wrong

they went by birthdate but drew dates like in bingo, my bd is 6/3 but my number was 46, luckily they abolished the draft before I got called up.

Intellect, the drinking age was 18 in the seventies( 1972 or so) as It changed right after my BD, then because of so many drunkiness issues it went back to 21 , right after I turned 21

you need to remember also, until the anti war movement took hold it was relativley easy to get a deferment, college, marriage and kids, religious reasons, working in a defense related industry bad back, flat feet etc. , once anti war became popular it became much harder to get a deferment, hense the exodus to Canada and europe

30 to vote still wouldn't win you nutters the White House.... And these two are trying to ruin a good thing for the rest of Colorado...

Subject them to the Spanish Inquisition and be done with it...

I don't know if this could have killed the students or not. However, those students must have been terrified since they weren't aware they were drugged. If my child came home from school and was dizzy and fainting I would panic and run to the emergency room thinking they were having some kind of brain seizure. Same thing if it happened to me and I started to faint around the house. If the pranksters were freshman in high school and did this at a party, I would say stupid kids but they still got alot of growing to do. But those students were in college. There is absolutely no excuse for doing something so stupid and dangerous (especially in a classroom) when you are over 18. Luckily no one was seriously injured.

Here is a quote for those smart people to afraid to serve and yet bash those same people that give them freedom:

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded
state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is
much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing
which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature
and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of
better men than himself."

You people to afraid to serve by reason of "being smarter"? No, you are simply afraid to die to keep your rights...you would rather buy them.

Observation: Commenter JS (above) has never baked pot brownies.

Uh "dunno"...the lottery was exactly like a bingo drawing. The dates were on balls that were drawn one-by-one. I guess you've never seen a lottery drawing eh? I'm not wrong...I lived it. Get a clue.

Expell them and make them pay for any medical bills that the other students had to pay.

Dan0, you could get a 3.2 beer but you could not get a drink of liquor. A real drink is a 6.0 beer or a drink of Kentucky Windage/bourbon or its equivalent. I know as I was there in 1970.

The lottery was rigged do a little more searching on Google or another search engine.

The fear mongers are at it again...was it "pot" or THC because they are not the same thing.

Completely off topic:

IMHO-2730490Seems the more developed your brain is the less likely you want to join the military.

Instead of joining the Military people like you play Call of Duty/Battlefield 3/Halo/or go out and play paintball games and pretend that you are commandos.

Mike Davis-433554 post 1.8:

Just like you find otherwise upstanding college students/cube farm rnk and file employees on any given weekend doingthe same thing.

It hasn't been said, but I'd guess these two have automatically flunked that class. I wonder how they'll explain to guidance counselor that they will need to retake that class again, and I would assume a different prof.

So much for pot being legal in Colorado! Keep this up and it will be illegal once again.

"The three hospitalized victims have since been released."

no, really??? i figured they all died from a weed induced coma!

this only made news cuz of the recent legalization. at my highschool the counselor got dosed with pure LSD, where was that on the news?

While certainly not life-threatening, I've seen a lot of people have bad reactions to edibles, especially panic attacks. I can only imagine its worse if you have no idea whats going on. On one hand, they definitely deserve to be punished. On the other, you have to hope they don't get screwed for life over what was basically a dumb prank that didn't have any actual lasting effects on the victims.

Why would anyone want to waste their weed on a hole class of students is beyond me. Especially since a coulple of them were complete noobs and had no idea how to behave while intoxicated by weed. Seriously lol. Your welcome for the freebie little babies! Hospitalized really? I have been quite intoxicated many many times by edibles and have never wanted to go to the hospital. Granted I knew what i was getting myself into but they really didn't taste the THC? Any edible i have ever had tasted extremely terrible. And to the veteran comments O please. Just because you decide to go into the military to support our corrupt leaders in their war to control the world and take over resources and kill people doesn't mean i have to bow to you and kiss your feet. Thank you for helping our govt officials with pursuing corporate interests. You are no better than the rest of us. America is waking up and seeing how corrupt the military has gotten. You might not be corrupt, but you are being a drone for them and signing your life away to do their bidding. I'm sorry i never ever will ever support anyone i know going into the military for them to give their life away so the corporations our govt works for can secure resources in an impoverished nation and exploit them. And lastly, you cannot i repeat canno overdose on THC what are some of you saying!

sorry *whole lol sticky keyboard gross

Denver Bill 2 at 1.5-

Ford was not elected.

asp - waste their weed on a hole class of students is beyond me. ... Especially since a coulple of them ... you cannot i repeat canno overdose on THC what are some of you saying!

Stay in school.

A prank? Pranks are only good if they don't harm others or cause someone to harm them selves as the nurse did in the UK! They all should be held accountable!

With rocket scientists like these two "students" on the loose do we really want to continue to let people 18 years old vote...I think maybe 30 would be a better minimum age option.

Older people do stupid things too. Reference, Mel Gibson, Nick Nolte, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, John McCain, Lyndon Johnson, etc etc etc

Spider, can we assume yuou're challenging someone to a CLEP test?

This cross between discussing dumbasses dosing unsuspecting people and military service reminds me of the time I and my buddies heard that someone had droopped a hundred hits of window pane in the grounds for the 250 cup coffee pot in the mess hall at Camp Sukiran. After the breakfast rush, but before the NCOs and officers showed up at 8 AM, to BS over coffee. It was our day off, so we ran down and had a few cups ourselves. We got there a little earlier than they did, so when they started looking at us funny, because we were all giggling when we got to the third cup, we figured we had better trake off, and head into town. We heard later that a couple of the officers ended up going to sick call, but everybody else just seemed to have a good time that day. Apparently military service prepared them to deal with the situation better than college prepared the class in the article.

Confussed: I agree they should absolutely be held accountable and punished to some degree, but because of our asinine drug laws that put weed on par with crack cocaine, this could easily stick these highschool kids with felonies and / or jail time that will destroy their entire lives over something that was (when it comes down to it) about as actually harmful as spiking the punch at prom.

I apologize if I gave the impression that I approve of using deceit to rob someone of their freedom of choice as these people did. I do not. I just suddenly remembered something that happened forty years ago, and thought I'd share.

Gee, in the old days we use to just spike the punch bowl with some everclear.

From the reaction you'd think they'd dosed the class with LSD.

Spider, defending your 'brain development' with a veiled threat of violence is really doing quite the opposite.

nawtark

Denver Bill 2 at 1.5- Ford was not elected.

Good catch.

The Vietnam draft lottery was indeed by birth date, and for 1970 was found to be biased. It turned out that later birthdays were far more likely to be drawn early in the lottery than early birthdays. Since the first drawn were the first to go, it was a bad deal if your birthday was late in the year. Many believe it was due to poor mixing. They dumped January dates in the barrel first, then Feb., etc. Although there was mixing and then dropping the whole lot into a jar to draw from, it seems the mixing was not thorough and the people drawing the numbers tended to draw from the top.

For the 1971 drawing, they added a step. They drew a date, then drew a number 1-365 from a second jar to determine the draft order for that date. And presumaeable mixed better first.

What they thought was a silly little prank turned into most likely felony convictions. Hard lesson to learn....now life is forever changed for them.

I'd bet that batch of brownies was publicized in advance & meant for students only....but what are ya gonna do when the prof helps himself? I don't think it was a *prank* at all.

Anyone who ended up in the hospital either A) made an absolute pig of themselves B) had some underlying psych condition or C) was stumbled across by someone who panicked & called 911. From the article, I'm gonna go w/ *C*.

*Slipping in & out of consciousness* or *fainting*....really? Um, yeah, that would be known as *I've been a little piggie, had quite enough high for one day, & need to sleep it off now*.

You do not faint, get dizzy, or become comatose from eating *pot-laced* brownies. It isn't possible to put that much into them. They'd be vile & inedible. If ppl who didn't know they were *special* ate them & didn't notice a taste difference, there couldn't have been a lot in them.

That said, *B* is the main reason they shouldn't have done it if not everyone was in on it, b/c you just don't know what's wrong w/ ppl &/or their 911 panic-dialing friends/rellies.

The girl who had an anxiety attack already had to have a psychological condition that made her prone to anxiety attacks. Pot does not make ppl paranoid & freaked, just hungry & sleepy.

Tho the lgst *adverse effect* I've ever seen would be scarfing down a whole bag of Fritos. There really isn't anything *bad* pot can do to you, & it's been tested exhaustively trying to find something to justify keeping it illegal.

Why are college-level teachers wasting class time holding holiday parties & telling students to bring in food anyway? Have they never seen the substandard of hygiene in a student dorm or apartment?

Even elementary schls tell parents not to bake nowadays, b/c there's no way of knowing how germ-infested....or cat-hair infested, yeah, just what we teachers want to see sticking in the frosting of a 2nd grader's BD cake, b/c now you have to explain why it can't be served to the hygiene-challenged parent & upset child....kitchens can be. They're told to bring in pre-wrapped, store-bought food if needed. So are teachers for their own holiday potlucks.

Piling on felony charges for this is over the top. Every student likely knew exactly what they were ingesting.

Pot does not make ppl paranoid & freaked, just hungry & sleepy.

Err, yes it does. Which is why I don't go anywhere near it!

This is just plain ignorant. Anyone who has ever ate bud-brownies knows that you can smell and taste the weed in them. Even upstanding folks that have never encountered it would know that smell and taste. I mean what the hell did these bright minds think when they ate funny-tasting brownies and shortly after felt a bit light-headed. Should have used the scientific method there, professor. The charges are clearly over-the-top. It's not like they poisoned the brownies, they used an herb. Assault with a lazy brownie? Open your eyes and open your minds.

Far Out!!!!

Were there any laughing attacks?

Yesterday there was a story on this site titled something like "Two die on first day of legalized pot", yet it was really about two people who who were killed when trying to rob another person. Today, we have this article. I think MSNBC is trying to influence people with fear. Shame on you MSNBC! More people support the legalization of marijuana than support gay marriage, yet MSNBC seems to think gay marriage is the only important issue to promote.

By the way, I really couldn't care less about gay marriage, except I think that if two people commit to each other than there is no reason why they shouldn't have the same rights as anyone else. Doesn't hurt me at all. I'm just saying there's a double standard going on here. Marijuana has many beneficial uses, and prohibition is a joke. Get with the entire program NBC! And you too, President Obama!

It does sound kind of odd. Just how much mj was in those brownies and would it have those effects?

if they weren't habitual users and unaware of it I could see they would feel surprised, anxious and passing out, mostly if there was a lot of thc in the brownies. It is wrong to intoxicate people like that.

An easy way to find out who the real wuzzies are in class. LMAO

One effect of psychedelic type drugs is that they loosen up the mind's grip on hidden fear-complexes and can turn them loose. Usually it is a good thing to identify the problem, face it, and go on. Obviously these "victims" were victimized by their own problems.

That's the interesting thing about pharmacology - different people can have very different effects/side effects. Ever wonder why some people don't like doing drugs? They really don't feel the same thing you do.

Plotinus

An easy way to find out who the real wuzzies are in class. LMAO

One effect of psychedelic type drugs is that they loosen up the mind's grip on hidden fear-complexes and can turn them loose. Usually it is a good thing to identify the problem, face it, and go on. Obviously these "victims" were victimized by their own problems.

What an idiotic statement. I am pro marijuana, but I am strictly against getting others intoxicated without their permission. Do what you want by yourself but don't be a sneaky jerk.

"One effect of psychedelic type drugs is that they loosen up the mind's grip on hidden fear-complexes and can turn them loose. Usually it is a good thing to identify the problem, face it, and go on. Obviously these "victims" were victimized by their own problems."

Most uninformed and ridiculous statement of the day. Congratulations.

Morons...half of the effect of THC is the knowledge that you're using THC...and I don't mean the good part of THC. If you didn't know you had ingested THC, you might think you were having a stroke or some other neurological event, which just might bring on an anxiety attack.

Of course, it being CU, how dumb do you have to be to eat anything made by a student at CU? Gee...what are the possibilities that a student (especially at CU) might put THC (inadverntly or not) in....wait for it...Brownies?

Okay, so a student...remember we're talking about students here (just possibly the cleanest, and best cooks in the entire world) brings anything they baked into class...you gonna take a bite?

These two idiots should be punished, maybe expelled from school and whatever criminal and civil punishments apply. But the rest of us should take away the message...DON'T EVER EAT ANYTHING MADE BY A STUDENT, EVER!!!!!!

Who the hell smokes weed then blacks out, has an anxiety attack, or goes in and out of consciousness?

There's a difference between smoking it and consuming it in food. The effects are not the same as when it is smoked, they are more intense and the high takes a good bit longer to taper off. Combine that with victims that did not know what they are consuming and may have never tried marijuana before and you are setting up a bad situation.

I've been a long time toker, but what these two did was flat out wrong. You give NOTHING to anyone who is unaware.

Redphish: Absolutely correct, along with it was not mentioned how strong or how many each person ate. For someone who doesn't know what's going on, it can be quite frightening.

Things of this nature are rare, and even stupider things are done by the "sober", on just as rare occurrence. None of these things should be held up as a poster child for the pot haters. But they will.

Toke in Peace and responsibly.

Much Love,

Da Pup

>:o):

lol RT, I work with younger kids and I don't eat anything they bring from home unless I know the family. Just not sure what you are going to get. Of course, I was thinking more along the line of food poisoning and not THC. lol

marijuana is a lot more intense to people who are not usually exposed to it. especially if the effects start to kick in out of nowhere while at school. The kids who brought the brownies to the campus are idiots to the max.

I know if I ate some food then started to feel the effects of some drug I would be heading to the hospital. Because you wouldn't know what drug or how much and I would assume that they meant to hurt me not give me a good buzz. Better safe than sorry! Then I would KICK THE $H!T OUT OF THEM !

Hey...drugs have different effects on different people...
and dosage, sex, weight, other prescription drugs, all effect how certain compounds react with the human body and mind.

It is one reason why, although there is a valid reason to allow "medical marijuana", we should not allow "recreational use" or decriminalization of marijuana...
as it will cease to be a controlled substance and lead to poisonings such as this. Some people are not responsible enough to be trusted with access to drugs; some people pull pranks...

I don't want someone feeding me something with a psychoactive compound without my consent or knowlege, and certainly not without the knowlege or supervision of a medical professional.

Some people can't handle the effects of marijuana, just like some can't handle even small amounts of alcohol.

Eating it can affect someone 5 or 10 times as much as smoking it, and it can last for 12 thru 36 hours before they sober up.

Flatiron,

I do what I want, and no, I myself wouldn't be getting someone high without their knowing it. Something about that just doesn't seem fair.

Krell,

I've been a lifelong user of psychedelics and know that what I stated has some truth to it. Uninformed? Probably more informed on the subject than you will ever be. We used to laugh about those statements that said people got high on psychedelics just to escape reality. Nooooooooo, the very first thing that comes up are all the hidden complexes inside that one is too scared to look at. It's almost like they're spring-loaded waiting for a release. A good heavy dose of reality right out of the chute. Some people can't deal with it. I jokingly called them wuzzies. Sorry if it offended anyone. Just another wuzzie test.

RTColorado

These two idiots should be punished, maybe expelled from school and whatever criminal and civil punishments apply....

...don't you worry, thier 'student loans' are now recallable and no longer are they able to apply.

American Lobo,

"Eating it can affect someone 5 or 10 times as much as smoking it, and it can last for 12 thru 36 hours before they sober up."

I can vouch for the truth of that from my own experience. I was at a party in Thailand once and was served brownies loaded with marijuana that I did not know contained marijuana. As I was leaving the party with a friend, he asked me, "So how did you like the marijuana in those brownies?" I replied, "There wasn't any marijuana in those brownies!" I thought he was just joking because I had not yet felt any effects from it. But by the time we got to his house, I started to feel the effects of it. It takes longer to start acting when you eat it than when you smoke it, and the effects last a lot longer. I was stoned out of my mind all that night. They must have baked an entire kilo of pot into those brownies. Martha Stuart would die of envy over their secret ingredient for brownies.

I don't know if the THC could have killed the students or not. However the students didn't know they were drugged. If my child came home and blacked out I would run to the emergincy room terrified that they were having some sort of brain seizure. Same thing if I started fainting at home and not know why. If the pranksters were freshman in highschool and did this during a party I would say dumb kids but they will out grow it. However those were college students who did this in a public classroom. There is no excuse to do something so dangerous and stupid when you are over 18, especialy in the circumstances it was done in.

I don't know if the THC could have killed the students. However, they didn't know they were drugged. If my child came home from school and blacked out I would run to the emergency room terrified thinking something was really wrong. Same thing if I come home and started fainting without knowing why. If those pranksters were freshman in highschool and did this during a party I would say dumb kids but they will grow up. However those were college students who did this in a public classroom. There is no excuse to do something so stupid and dangerous when you are 18, especially under the circumstances it was done in.

I don't know if the THC could have killed the students. However, they didn't know they were drugged. If my child came home from school and blacked out I would run to the emergency room terrified thinking something was really wrong. Same thing if I come home and started fainting without knowing why. If those pranksters were freshman in highschool and did this during a party I would say dumb kids but they will grow up. However those were college students who did this in a public classroom. There is no excuse to do something so stupid and dangerous when you are 18, especially under the circumstances it was done in. Luckily no one was seriously injured.

Sorry I have three of the same comments. I made a mistake and can't delete them now.

Anxiety, including a panic attack, is possible with THC. If someone isn't used to it, it can be overwhelming. You also have to consider the way it effects individuals who have anxiety disorders. I know for a fact that smoking pot in moderate quantities caused my existing social phobia to take on a life of its own. Now apply that feeling to someone who doesn't know they're ingesting laced food, which can have a stronger and longer lasting effect. At least I know to limit my quantities, especially after long breaks.

But yeah, what a dumb thing to do. Better hope this crap doesn't happen again.. it was just made legal in that state.

Intellect-1949393

I was there and I said 1972 not 1970 , Here in NH you could buy any type of alcohol you wanted and go into any bar and vote if you were 18

heres a link, apparently it varied by state

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._history_of_alcohol_minimum_purchase_age_by_state

I'd call going to the hospital suffering.

You've obviously never experienced extreme paranoia, anxiety, and distortion of time from THC. I have, and I would label it suffering. I ended up in the hospital, and it took months for the effects to subside. It's not an entirely harmless, benign drug for all people.

Steve,

Read post 3.3 above.

No it isn't non-sense. I have smoked pot off and on for a long time and recently I was given a pot muffin by a buddy who said to eat the whole thing rather than say half now and half later. I went to a concert and was just devistated for a good hour and a half. Luckily it was an outdoor concert and could jusy lay there and listen not being able to try to stand up and take a walk. Even I was freaked at all that. It is very uncomfortable to be that stoned and even scarey. I really didn't like it and I sure had a lot to say to this buddy of mine. My friends thought it was funny laying there like that but they assured me they would take care of me and they did.

That's a lie Steve.

If someone slips you a drug go to the hospital ! These people were lucky it was just weed but would you take their word for it ? Scum that would slip any kind of drug into someones food are capable of anything. Go to the hospital then when you feel better crack their skulls with a tire Iron.

You are the only one here promoting extreme violence.

Acually, felony charges are quite appropriate as these knuckleheads literally poisoned their "brownies" with a psychoactive drug.
They've effectively ended their college careers, ended their chances for a decent life in the United States and serve as a warning to other idiots who think it is perfectly ok to "dose" someone without their knowlege or consent.

Nobody has ever gotten high on THC/pot one day, and still felt the effects for weeks or even a month afterwards.

I've eaten enough pot cookies to pass out within a few hours, but the effects only lasted 36 hours(not a full blown high, but I could still feel it).

Maybe Steve was slipped something else into his marijuana(PCP?).

Mo-Pho -- That's because I believe that drugging someone is a violent assault and deserves retaliation.

You obviously have no idea the effects thc can have on some. It can trigger panic attacks, heart-attacks, strokes, and irregular heartbeats. Or maybe you just smoke bad weed.

Show links to sources that show that marijuana highs cause "heart attacks/strokes".

I'll be waiting. I also want to see proof that it was only marijuana they were on, and that they had no prior medical conditions that caused the attack/stroke.

I've consumed the highest grade THC content marijuana, and so have MANY of my friends.

Yes, you can have a panic attack if you aren't mentally strong enough to deal with a potent high, but most people who are affected by marijuana highs, were:

1. already in an emotional/mental state that was conducive to being triggered/pushed by being high or other factors.

2. Already had heart/mental problems, and could have had a heart attack while engaged in strenous physical activity/sex or from being severely frightened.

3. are just weak minded, and they would be affected by a placebo, if someone convinced them they were going to have a "scary" high they couldn't control.

BTW, I'm not a "pothead" by any means. I stopped smoking marijuana almost 3 years ago.

Luckily I've never had an addictive personality, and I can start stop just about anything without a backward glance.

Marijuana is the substance of choice, and much less dangerous than alcohol. I'll probably end up using it medically, when I eventually become old/infirm.

Mo-Pho-3508157

Damn yeah I have seen muffins that were that potent.. Half now would have been good, the other half later.. But no ate a whole one and was rooted like a tree for a day..

I have seen people talk about the butter.. Green butter is typically made from the sugar leaf and the stems.. There is still THC in the sugar leaf and very little in the stems that can be boiled out and made in to a butter..

When the stems and sugar leaf is used for tea, it has great pain relief qualities for people who can't eat food or smoke weed.. The tea gives a body high instead of the high most smokers look for..

I have smelled pot brownies cook and the smelled them after they were cooled and cut apart.. The stench is horrific, I couldn't eat something that smells like cow @!$%#.. I have seen people just smashed from brownies and they could barely stand let alone think..

I am with you all.. I am pro-marijuana.. BUT, I believe that is an adults choice to make not forced on them by two imbeciles.. I hope this isn't what we have to look forward to with pot becoming legal in two states.. Yeah wtg idiots, @!$%# it up for the people that need or depend on it while they are sick and dying.. Maybe the age of possession should be rethought and that should be marked up to people in their 30s or older..

Possibly. The people who unknowingly ingested the pot were treated at a hospital, which implies they suffered bodily injury. In Colorado, knowingly or recklessly causing bodily injury to another is 3rd Degree Assault.

This was a premeditated assault intended to cause bodily injury (making someone high against their will) is a bodily injury. Plus the expense's of the hospital visits and tests. Plus the school will get sued by everyone. These two kids are screwed and it will be a long time before they dig themselves out of this hole. They better have rich parents.

The laws on giving someone a drug without their knowledge or consent haven't changed one bit. The new law allows a person the right to recreational use of pot...not the right to dose someone else unknowingly. So of course they would, and should, be arrested, regardless of the date.

Mark is absolutely right. The legalization of private pot consumption would not in any way clear doping someone else without their will any more than legalizing abortion would make it okay to go out and give them to other people against their will

They were certainly stupid but it was no different than bringing a 40 pounder of JD to class and handing out shots !

Uh...Mo-Pho...exactly what university allows people to bring a "40 pounder of JD" to class? None that I've ever been to...

The drug was not the problem. It was lack of morals. If you strap someone down and funnel JD down their throat it's assault. There's right and wrong and this was wrong. These people were robbed of their freedom. Even if it's a legal drug you still have the right to say NO.

Also, handing out shots is significantly different than secretly getting people to consume it without their knowledge and consent.

Yeah right. Just these two. The teacher and the whole class of pot-party morons got sick and then threw these two under the bus after they went to the hospital. No wonder too. The doctors are going to figure out what they all had. The teacher and the whole lot of them should be jailed for illegal drugs, reckless endangerment of the rest of the school and for using the school and the class for running their drug-den. No wonder it's at UC too. 99% of the UC student body are the entitled-from-birth spoiled-brat offspring of the 1% fat-cat money vampires that are destroying this country. The whole lot of them belong in prison.

They shouldn't have done what they did. You can't hand out any drug secretly to people. Crazy kids indeed. And don't ever do that to your pets either.

If you're going about your day and all of a sudden you're stoned out of your gourd for no apparent reason -- and even moreso if you've never been stoned before -- you're not going to just sit back and enjoy it, you're going to think something is very, very wrong and go to the hospital.

Some of you people really have no capacity to put yourselves in someone else's shoes at all. The lack of empathy is staggering.

You are right. But then again, booze hurts more people more often simply because only a small percentage end up being ruled by the bottle.

Peanuts kill people.

I'm sorry Mo-Pho...
where in the story does it say that these kids laced their brownies with alcohol?

If you already have mental issues(or are somehow allergic), then ANY drug that alters your perception can be harmful.

those that drink alcohol or take precription drugs, are also at risk, if they have problems before hand.

I have yet to meet a person who became violent, or dangerous, solely from marijuana use, if they were in perfect mental health beforehand(and I know hundreds of good upstanding folks who have familes/careers, that use marijuana on a regular basis).

I agree. Those idiots wasted a bunch of good brownies. As far as a step backward for legalization, people have been doing this since somebody made the first batch of "special brownies".

I've thought the same thing many, many times. But I bet a lot of the baby boomers, in Congress, already know what the effects of pot are....

It is a common crime, actually. You've never heard of the use of ecstasy for date rape? In this case I think that charge is too harsh and will probably be dropped.

Why is it too harsh in this case? The intentionally conspired together to drug a number of innocent people with a controlled substance. The fact that they didn't then use that to commit rape of some other crime doesn't change that they still quite clearly meet the requirements of the drugging and conspiracy charges.

There was a man also involved. Don't blame it all on women!!!!!!!

It is harmless, these affected people are just fine now.

Jail time...end their college career. They committed a felony. They violated the civil rights of the professor and the students whom they poisoned.

Oh...and btw...
They're not kids.

They're adults. Adults who commit crimes should be treated as adults, regardless how supposedly "childish" or "immature" their actions; others would consider their actions "evil" and a violation of the students and the professor's civil rights.

You cannot say they were poisoned when no poison was used. Being fed a controlled substance by fraudulent means is the correct way to say it.

Anyone who claims that pot is "harmless" doesn't know what they are talking about, but just because it is not "harmless" does not mean it should be illegal.

If everything that had any potential for having harm was illegal, then we would all still be living in caves and gathering berries.

IMO, enforcing pot laws is more harmful to society than the drug is. The biggest advocates of illegal marijuana are actually the dealers that sell it on the black market. If it's legal, the price would go down, it would generate tax revenue, and it would be like selling anything else with a thin margin of profit.

If someone had soaked a rum cake in a lot of un-denatured rum (though it would be harder to hide) and a non-drinker got rip-roaring drunk unexpectedly, they would probably also find it unpleasant and it would be equally wrong. I'm guessing the classmates who had a little experience (most at CU) probably thought it was quite the treat.

IMO, enforcing pot laws is more harmful to society than the drug is.

Regarding the above quote from johnbarker in comment #26.1:

Alcoholic beverages are legal and we spend a huge amount of time and money enforcing laws that seek to stop alcohol abuse. Furthermore, millions of deaths, injuries and accidents are due to alcohol abuse each year.

I believe legalizing marijuana would increase the law enforcement and health care costs associated with it and expose many more of us to second-hand smoke. Marijuana could become a bigger problem than alcohol and tobacco if it is legalized, in my opinion.

I suggest you shovel your head out of the sand and arm yourself with the truth instead of old rhetoric.

I second that ! Just look at the guy. Certainly that type.

Y'all are overreacting.

I bake and eat those on a regular basis because of intractable pain due to osteoarthritis, shoulder replacement, foot rebuild, and I've needed a knee replacement since 1993 (the third surgical repair). Those "bad effects" those people are having are the effects I DESIRE from my (legal in Washington and Colorado) medications.

Since I live in Washington State, I have a very clear choice for pain management:

1. Opioid/opiate pain-killers: Hydrocodone, Oxycodone, Hydromorphone.
* Bad effects: nausea, ears ring, belligerence, frustration, violent mood changes, convulsions, psychosis, violence; ADDICTIVE, since they're all just Heroin Lite. Worst-case, you die.

2. Marijuana (for pain - YMMV): Sativa/Indica hybrid, pure Indica, hybrid Indica/Afghanica, pure Afghanica.
* Bad effects: IF YOU ARE NOT A USER: Dizziness, mild vertigo, mild hallucinogenic, mild hypnotic (in the medical sense), the infamous munchies (I don't, but ymmv), confusion, euphoria. But these things don't happen if you're expecting it, and if the dosing is correct for your BMI and condition.
* Good effects, if you're a medical user: Couchlock, feeling of mild euphoria, peaceful, mellow, amicable, or apathetic attitude, sometimes sleepy; not likely to get into an argument. Worst case, your popcorn remains in the microwave because you forgot to press the start button; you also forgot you even put it into the microwave, and you still have the munchies. You wake up the next morning, try to defrost a bagel, find the unpopped popcorn, and call out, "Hey, some @!$%# left a package of popcorn in the microwave and forgot to turn it on!"

Given those choices and the experiences I've had with ALL of the above pain-killers, I'll take my legal, organic, personal garden, which I've been cultivating for three years now.

As for giving it to others as a surprise, that should be a misdemeanor. Unless you do it like at a big party, in which case it should be fair game.

Now, where the hell did I put that popcorn...?

Yes warren, we understand the case for medical marijuana...

you ingest marijuana (a natural psychoactive drug) because it works and is less harmful to you than prescription medications...

but you don't take your meds and secretly feed them to other people as a joke...whether aspirin or laudanum, or in this case, marijuana.

According to former United States Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, M.D., "Unlike many of the drugs we prescribe every day, marijuana has never been proven to cause a fatal overdose."

Yeah that's makes it all better..lmao You're an idiot.

Ah, so my right to not choose not to drugs can only be enforced with drugs that have been fatal in the past? The fact that no one has died from an overdose from it doesn't mean that it isn't a horrible assault on a person's body, mind, and civil rights to be tricked into ingesting it without knowledge and consent.

It's harmless. People are dangerous.