While I applaude your coverage, I feel that a bigger problem is being Ignored. If all the admin folks were at that prom why did they not relize what was going on and step in sooner. please keep up with the bottom line of this story, as well as your concise coverage of all the goings on in the area. Thanks Roger

Thanks Roger! From what we're told, it is suspected that the brownies were distributed earlier in the day and the students ate them before the actual prom. We don't have many details but I will keep you guys updates as this story unfolds. Thanks so much for the interest, and stay tuned...

Why do stories like this always claim kids got sick from marijuana? Marijuana is nontoxic and it does not make anyone sick! Kids will be kids and some of them always have and probably always will experiment with drugs, including tobacco and alcohol. The fact more are trying marijuana is an improvement if they are also using toxic and often deadly tobacco and alcohol less, which is what most studies seem to indicate.

It’s time for kids and the public to be told the truth about marijuana instead of fear mongering lies. No one in history has ever died from nontoxic marijuana and they never will.

The truth has been known for decades but the lies continue!

On March 22, 1972 the Richard Nixon-appointed, 13-member National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse recommended the decriminalization of marijuana, concluding, “[Marijuana's] relative potential for harm to the vast majority of individual users and its actual impact on society does not justify a social policy designed to seek out and firmly punish those who use it.” Richard Nixon chose to ignore the advice of his own well qualified, expensive, taxpayer funded, commission and start the modern escalation of criminalizing marijuana consumers. The lies he promoted have done much harm! He started the “war on drugs”, which is actually a violent unconstitutional war against nonviolent citizens, which are no threat to their selves or society and a war on everyone’s Constitutional rights and liberties. He did this acting as a tyrant, in response to nonviolent anti-Vietnam war protests by We The People, which largely consisted of young American marijuana consumers. No president we have had since Nixon has sought to right these unconstitutional presidential actions, instead every one of them has allowed this unlawful unconstitutional tyranny to continue.

In 1988, after reviewing all the scientific evidence presented in a lawsuit against prohibition of medical marijuana, DEA administrative law judge (Judge Francis Young) wrote: “MARIJUANA, IN ITS NATURAL FORM, IS ONE OF THE SAFEST THERAPEUTICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCES KNOWN. IN STRICT MEDICAL TERMS, MARIJUANA IS SAFER THAN MANY FOODS WE COMMONLY CONSUME.”

Judge Young's "Opinion and recommended ruling, Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Decision of Administrative Law Judge", also said:

"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 one marijuana 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."

Learn the truth about marijuana! Learn how and why it became illegal and why even in this age of overwhelming scientific proof of marijuana’s safety and benefits it remains illegal. The kids that used marijuana at this event certainly broke the law and school policy but was it really necessary to ruin the event for everyone? This incident is being exploited to promote anti-marijuana policy, propaganda lies and fear mongering about kids being in alleged but nonexistent danger.

The references below are excellent sources of factual information about marijuana and marijuana prohibition. The public needs to know the truth instead of being fed load after load of anti-marijuana propaganda lies.

No matter where you stand on the issue of legalizing marijuana everyone should read:

MARIJUANA AND HEMP THE UNTOLD STORY, Thomas J. Bouril,

WHY IS MARIJUANA ILLEGAL, Pete Guither

and the free online book:

THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES, The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis and The Conspiracy Against Marijuana.

Click the links to those titles on this webpage:
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If you think marijuana prohibition has anything to do with the imaginary, false, fabricated, alleged harms of using marijuana as a recreational drug, YOU HAVE BEEN DUPED!

This movie explains the truth very well!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yBDDsx_4jM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpVDDwrUTcY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPtxG7UvO3I&feature=related
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In this myth shattering, information packed documentary, learn from physicians and leading researchers about medicinal cannabis and its demonstrated effects on human health. This game-changing movie presents the most comprehensive synopsis to date of the real science surrounding the world’s most controversial plant.
http://marijuanamovie.org/

I don't really see this as a serious problem whatsoever and thank you jsknow for some enlightening information about marijuana. These kids ate some brownies that had some pot in them, big deal! Much better than drinking or abusing prescription/OTC drugs! I don't think that kids in Junior High should be smoking, eating, or otherwise getting high off pot, but at least it won't kill them as so many other things young kids will try can. It certainly isn't 'dangerous' either, let's not kid ourselves. The biggest danger is eating all the potato chips and falling asleep on the couch. These kids shouldn't have been getting high at a school event and really shouldn't at all given their young age. I believe you should respect your parents and your school and when you're an adult you can do whatever you want. Bottom line though, I'm glad there were 19 kids that ate too many snacks instead of 19 kids rushed to the hospital from alcohol poisoning or overdosing on REAL drugs.

Jesus said to do unto others as we would have them to do unto us. None of us would want our child thrown in jail with the sexual predators for using a little marijuana. None of us would want to see our parent's home confiscated and sold by the police for growing a couple of marijuana plants to ease the aches and pains of growing older. It's time to stop putting our own families in jail. It's time to let ordinary Americans grow a little marijuana in their own back yards, and it's nice to see our culture coming to terms with this in a more wholesome fashion. This will go a long way toward putting the criminal drug gangs out of business for good!

i do believe the kids actually got sick, otherwise it's likely no one would have known they had the brownies in the first place. however, they probably got sick because they just threw some pot into brownie batter, which is not the proper way to make pot brownies. i can see that making a couple of kids puke.