Four Live Oak High School students were treated today after they ate marijuana-laced cookies this morning, according to a news release from the Morgan Hill Unified School District.
Medical personnel evaluated students at the school and they were released to their parents. Interviews are being conducted to see if any other students were involved exchange of the cookies, or ingested them as well.
Morgan Hill police reported earlier that four or five students ingested drug-laced cookies at LOHS on East Main Street, where emergency personnel are on the scene now tending to at least two students who are being treated by paramedics, Morgan Hill Unified Superintendent Wes Smith said.
Crews are sweeping the campus checking for other students who may be sick, he said. A call came in to 911 about 11:40 a.m. today.
“No students were transported by EMS,” Smith said. One parent may have taken their child to an area hospital, he added.
The illnesses are likely connected to the fact that April 20 or “4/20” is a counterculture holiday celebrated by some by smoking or ingesting marijuana.
“My son told me about it. He laughed about it, like ‘guess what mom?’ ” said Amy, a parent of a 16-year-old sophomore who declined to give her last name. She also said her son has been offered drugs in the past. “I think it’s going to happen,” she said, “it’s high school.”
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