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Students Feed Marijuana-Laced Brownies to Their Professor & Classmates

Dec. 10, 2012 9:05am Billy Hallowell

File this one under “bizarre.” Two University of Colorado Boulder students were arrested after allegedly bringing pot-laden brownies to their classroom — and feeding them to their professor and classmates. The entire incident is almost too-unbelievable-to-be-true, as Thomas Ricardo Cunningham, 21, and Mary Elizabeth Essa, 19, are now facing four felony charges for cooking up the drugged desserts and offering them to their peers.

Police found out about the purported actions on Friday morning after authorities were called to the Hellems Arts and Sciences Building to assist the professor who complained of dizziness and trouble maintaining consciousness after she consumed the brownies, NBC News reports. But the medical drama didn’t end there.

Thomas Cunningham & Mary Essa Arrested After Feeding Marijuana Brownies to Professor, Class

Credit: AP

That same afternoon, another student’s mother called campus police and said her daughter was having a panic attack and had been hospitalized. The following day, yet another pupil reported that she felt as though she would black out following Friday’s class and she, too, sought medical attention. In total, three individuals were hospitalized and five others experienced effects from the marijuana.

“An investigation revealed that the three hospitalized victims…were suffering from the effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active ingredient in marijuana,” the University of Colorado Boulder Police said in a statement.

Watch the pot brownie press conference, during which university officials and authorities addressed the illegal activities associated with this case:

During interviews with authorities on Saturday, both Cunningham and Essa admitted that their delectable treats were laced with the drug. As a result, they were arrested on suspicion of four felonies — serious charges that may profoundly impact their futures.

The alleged infractions include, as NBC notes, “second-degree assault, inducing consumption of controlled substances by fraudulent means, conspiracy to commit second-degree assault and conspiracy to commit inducing consumption of controlled substances by fraudulent means.”

The victims who consumed the marijuana brownies have all recovered and are out of the hospital.

(H/T: NBC News)

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chris72sax
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:03am
This proves all of you big government types wrong. They broke the law (infringed on someone) else’s rights and now they have to pay the price (take responsibility for their actions). FREEDOM WORKS! Up your butts! Same as if someone causes unjustifiable harm with their firearm. Time to decriminalize all drugs, prostitution, automatic weapons, multiple marriages, etc. Let people live their lives and the law only gets involved when people infringe on others.

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- Frederick_Douglass_Republican
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 1:50pm
  Dude. Did you eat a large tray of those brownies about two hours before posting?
  
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- joe.r.piehole
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 3:10pm
  “The victims who consumed the marijuana brownies have all recovered and are out of the hospital.”
  
  YOU DON’T SAY!
  
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- scarebear83
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 5:18pm
  “Human civilization is, in fact, grounded and dependent on the fundamental principle that human behavior can and must be regulated. Laws, by definition, regulate human behavior! Why do we have traffic laws? Why do we require people to drive their automobiles on the correct side of the road, stop at red traffic lights, or yield to pedestrians in crosswalks? Weren’t we told that we could not legislate human behavior? Why do we have laws governing the food industry’s handling of food for human consumption? I thought we could not legislate human behavior? Why do we have laws that make murder, stealing, and perjury in court illegal—if human morality cannot be legislated? The fact of the matter is that human behavior can and must be governed. The very fabric and functioning of society depends on it!” http://www.apologeticspress.org/APContent.aspx?category=7&article=1507
  
  Legalizing all that stuff is just going to lead to the break down of our society, not help it.
  
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- chris72sax
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:49pm
  Having rules on a road is precisely my point; I don’t own the road, so I don’t have the right to endanger others. If we go by your logic; the government can and should forbid you from having firearms; restrict your travel for yours and others safety; limit your sugar, fat and salt intake; regulate your religious beliefs if they are seen as oppressive to others in our “society”. You are so wrong that you can’t see your hipocracy. Natural rights are God-given, so if you make government the arbiter of rights, they’ll be happy to be your god and master.
  
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- scarebear83
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 4:46pm
  When has sugar or salt caused divorce, altered one’s mind, or killed someone in the course of shortly taking it thereafter? When has a gun, by itself, decided to shoot someone? However you just made my point, you don’t have the right to endanger others when it comes to the road and the very idea of there being laws is to regulate human behavior, you can’t decide to drive on the left side of the road as you wish. Traffic laws regulate human behavior. I’m not saying let the government be our nanny but legalizing things simply because you don’t want the government to tell you what to do is silly, the government already tells you what you can and can’t do in certain situations as per the road example. I for one do not want drugs legalized because however you view the issue, all can agree that these drugs alter one’s state of mind and in an altered state of mind people can do stupid things and downright dangerous things which can effect our whole society.
  
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Uechi
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:58am
A perfect example of the modern college student, no critical thinking. Anybody with half a brain would no that you can’t feed dope to people in foodstuffs, especially without their knowledge, If these two fools had done a little research before they acted they would have discovered that their plan was going to land them in the slammer. Oh well, rot in jail morons.

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taintso
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:56am
It’s a good thing they didn’t bring peanut butter sandwiches to school, all hell would have broke loose.

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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:48am
We have a bunch of stupid youth that think Marijuana is harmless. It is a drug. It is not like Organic Broccoli. Legalize it? Yes. Just do not lie about it and try to justify its use.

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Keatonc33
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:40am
As a huge advocate for legalization myself i must say, These two idiots do nothing but hurt our cause. Come on! They should be charged and arrested. just don’t let this reflect negatively on marijuana.

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- TruthPolice60
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:50am
  Don’t you think the physical reactions from eating the brownies should reflect negatively on marijuana? Were the two half baked “bakers” too stoned to realize that they would cause harm to others? Socially liberal attitudes lead to all kinds of societal harm; mental, physical and spiritual.
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:49am
  I think the physical reactions would be a non issue had the people known what they were ingesting.
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 1:12pm
  Keaton
  
  I agree and disagree.
  
  Agree:
  This has nothing to do with legalize or not. You can also spike punch with pure grain alcohol so that it can hardly be detected by taste. As a young man I learn this the hard way.
  Disagree:
  Smoking or vaping is not as powerful as ingesting. Not sure why but as a young man I also learned this the hard way. Puked brown slime until it came out of my ears and then crashed out for the day.
  
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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 2:04pm
  TruthPolice60
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:50am
  
  Don’t you think the physical reactions from eating the brownies should reflect negatively on marijuana?
  ========================================
  
  Not anymore than someone who points their loaded handgun at someone and pulls the trigger….
  
  Congratulations……you just finished making a fabulous argument in favor of gun control (without even realizing it, of course)…..
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 3:50pm
  Kid
  You just finished the fabulous case for criminalizing ganga. The effects could be as bad as someone pointing a gun at someone and pulling the trigger? Circular bs is still bs.
  
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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 5:33pm
  Fubared
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 3:50pm
  
  Kid
  You just finished the fabulous case for criminalizing ganga.
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  Are you really calling for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment then??
  
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- tommytruck
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:51am
  Don’t let it reflect negatively on marijuana, you say? I wouldn’t bat an eyelash if they were shot by the people they fed that to. Self-defense. Bake that.
  
  - Tommy Truck
  
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nosharia
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:25am
In a state where pot is legal, don’t eat anything home made.

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- smokeysmoke
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:46am
  this is an important story… because, i am a pot smoker.. i am like a wine conousour of weed… but i believe that these students are morons… the wweed that they have in CO, is so extriemly potent, and to give it to people who dont smoke, and could potentialy not enjoy the effects of being high, is 1 dangerous, and 2 stupid… not to mention ALL THOSE PEOPLE YOU GAVE BROWNIES TOO HAVE 0 TOLORANCE FOR THE DRUG.. and thus could not just be high… but could be out of their minds halucinating and not know whats going on… these kids should be charged
  
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- booger71
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:56am
  I had not tried pot since the 70′s. After I retired, a friend had some that I tried, and instead of just feeling mellow, it made me paranoid. This new stuff is potent.
  
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RANGER1965
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:18am
It doesn’t matter that there were no harmful effects. It doesn’t matter that it’s not addictive.

A drug that caused a high that lasted for hours was given to unsuspecting victims. They didn’t know what was happening to them, and they feared the worst.
The people that did this crossed the line.

They will be punished criminally, and when the DA is done with them many of these victims are gonna take out their knives and get them civilly.

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- Locked
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:42am
  I was with you right up until the end.
  
  “They will be punished criminally, and when the DA is done with them many of these victims are gonna take out their knives and get them civilly.”
  
  … I highly doubt any of the victims will be going on a murder-spree for revenge. It blows my mind that that’s the first place your brain goes to.
  
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- RANGER1965
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:33am
  You obviously didn’t read what I said.
  
  The victims will take out their knives and get them civily.
  
  As in civil court. Lawsuits etc. My reference to taking out their knives is a common literary reference used to describe hungry people taking out their knives to cut a slice of the pie.
  
  In this case the pie is the wealth of the perpetrators.
  
  Sorry for the misunderstanding.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:34am
  LOCKED. A very good @sswhoopin’ would suffice.
  
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Hodmokrin
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:16am
Could have been worse, they could have put LSD in the brownies. Stupid kids.

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jungle J
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:14am
I know that smoking it is very good for lung function. Anything that takes your mind away from normal is harmful. only the sane can understand that.

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- Locked
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:43am
  Interestingly, studies following pot smokers for 20+ years have found no link between smoking pot and lung cancer. Not that it matters in this case; we’re talking about snacks, not spliffs.
  
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- Smokey_Bojangles
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:49am
  Marijuana can damage the cells in the bronchial passages which protect the body a
  gainst inhaled microorganisms. It is a general “immunosuppressant.” That means even used for medical purposes it can lower your immunity and cause more problems than it treats. That means Marijuana use can accelerate the progression of HIV to full-blown AIDS!
  Pulmonary infections, chronic bronchitis,emphysema and respiratory cancer are not harmless.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 12:07pm
  “I know that smoking it is very good for lung function.” Tell us how you know that wheezy??
  
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perry1980
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:14am
Munchies that make you want more munchies. hmmm

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nocommie
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:13am
Whats the problem here? I thought that this was a normal state of mind for liberals and how can you tell if a professor is stoned?

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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:42am
  I love how you assume that if they’re college students they must be liberal. : ) says more about conservatives doesn’t it?
  
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- kay2861
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:08am
  @KeatonC33. Colorado + student + pot. True, those kids might not be liberal, but if I were in Vegas I would say those were pretty good odds. I would take that bet.
  
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- COFemale
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:40am
  I would bet 99% to 1%, these kids are Liberal. You must realize CU Boulder is in a heavily laden Liberal town. I know I live in Colorado. The odds that conservative kids would do this is slim to none, thus the 1% chance.
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:50am
  kay and coffee… touché.. i was just making a joke
  
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bdandsl
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:11am
Those eating the brownies had to know. The taste alone would tell you.

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- MGrilla
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:45am
  Judging from the effects, it seems they got a hardy dose. if they couldn’t taste it then, 1: they must have stuffed their faces , or 2 : they have selective taste, cause you eat weed anything and you can taste it …. well that’s what a friend told me one time ;)
  
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- deeberj
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 2:17pm
  Not true. If you know how to make the brownies right you may not taste weed. Especially if you don’t know they are weed brownies and you therefore aren’t looking to taste weed. Maybe they tasted unusual but they didn’t know what was doing it.
  
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jungle J
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:09am
Put a round in them…a crime on the same scale as rape. Only burnouts, pimps, rapists and degenerates their sewer like ways on others

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- Locked
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:10am
  … getting someone high is the same as rape? Er, not quite. It’s definitely a crime, but I don’t think anyone’s going to say “Remember when I ate that pot brownie in class and then got dizzy? Man, I can’t believe I ended up pregnant with a stoner’s kid!”
  
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- Ramv36
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 3:38pm
  I’d say rape is a fair comparison to this case. In both, an undesired object was placed into the victim’s body absent their consent causing them personal injury. Sounds precisely like rape to me, especially the lack of consent part, which is the sole predication of rape.
  
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- Johnny Cocheroo
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 4:35pm
  No, its not like rape and to even say its close shows you have no idea what actual rape is about.
  
  If they would’ve forcibly held people down, smacked them up, shoved weed into their mouth & down their throat – I’d say thats more like rape.
  
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- tommytruck
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 8:05am
  +1 – It might not be rape, but it is most certainly a violation of not only someone’s physical person, but their mind. This doesn’t even take into account the effect this may have on someone who must be 100% drug-free for their profession. They are absolutely lucky they don’t have few holes punched into them.
  
  - Tommy Truck
  
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MuyLoco
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:05am
“The victims who consumed the marijuana brownies have all recovered and are out of the hospital”

That’s freaking hilarious. By “recover” they must mean their “high” wore off. To be clear, you CANNOT be harmed directly by intaking marijuana. It’s NEVER happened in the thousands of years that humans have been consuming and smoking it. Sure, you can get cancer, but you can’t OD or anything like it.

That being said, they certainly need to face repercussions for their actions. No one should be given a drug against their will or without their knowledge. The other problem is they were EXTREMELY high. The effects of marijuana are much stronger when cooked as opposed to smoked. That and the fact they probably ingested way more than would be comfortable for a rookie. Happens quite often with consumables, even with veteran smokers, as the effects take much longer to kick in.

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- jungle J
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:10am
  you speak as a burnout.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:21am
  @Muyloco
  
  “To be clear, you CANNOT be harmed directly by intaking marijuana.”
  
  This is akin to saying that getting drunk is fine if you just sleep it off. Or getting roofied. Just because there’s no lasting harm does not mean it doesn’t do harm in the interim.
  
  The first and only time I tried eating pop was years and years ago in university. After no effect for an hour and a half, it hit me like a train. Sweating profusely, lost all sense of depth perception, couldn’t keep a coherent thought in my head. My heart felt like it would burst out of my chest, it was pounding so hard. I ended up spending most of the next few hours vomiting into a toilet, just praying for it to stop.
  
  And I at least had a vague idea of what I was getting myself into. These kids made a dumb choice… but drugging someone without their knowledge should be (and rightly is) a felony offense. If I experienced those reactions without knowing why, I would have called 911 right away.
  
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- usedCZARsalesman
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:44am
  So JUNGLE, are you simply generalizing ALL pot consumers as “burnouts”? It seems to be what you are going for, and I’m just wondering if you drink coffee or soda, or take cough medicine, or have ever had a beer…all those things are FAR more addictive and harmful than pot, and I’m just trying to figure out why you seem to be so hostile towards people that choose to relax at the end of the day in a way you don’t agree with…would you mid breaking it down for me?
  
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- MuyLoco
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:49am
  You speak like a judgmental idiot.
  
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- guntotinsquaw
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 1:01pm
  @MUYLOCO
  
  Yes, you can be harmed by the intaking of marijuana, my oldest is highly allergic. While doing a ride along, some little punk being arrested threw his weed into my sons face. Our first experience with the drug, my son was Hazmatted and stuck with an epipen and hospitalized. His face swelled, his throat swelled, eyes swelled, the hives were immediate. His dad is fire/emt and was at work, luckily, with some of my epipens. It was a lovely night at the hospital for us. To ingest this weed could kill my son. So in the statement ” you CANNOT be harmed directly by intaking marijuana” you are wrong. For some, it can be a death sentence.
  
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- MuyLoco
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 1:37pm
  @LOCKED
  
  Nothing you described exhibits physical harm. It sounds like you experienced the effects of marijuana and didn’t enjoy them. This can certainly lead a panic attack, which it sounds like you did have. However, none of those symptoms exhibit damage or were life threatening, no matter how scary they may have seemed.
  
  @GUNTOTINSQUAW
  
  Fair enough, I should have put a disclaimer referring to possible allergies. But, much like peanuts, we don’t criminalize their ingestion for everyone because a certain number of people are allergic. I think the general point I was trying to make is fairly clear.
  
  I don’t excuse these two knuckleheas in the story, I think I made that clear as well.
  
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- usedCZARsalesman
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 1:38pm
  GUN, yours sons reaction is an allergy…if THAT is the measuring stick you are using to argue the “harmful effects” of pot, I hope you take equally hard stances against latex, peanuts, penicillin, shellfish, dogs and cats…I think you are getting the picture
  
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- Locked
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 2:17pm
  @Muyloco
  
  “Nothing you described exhibits physical harm.”
  
  Please don’t move the goalposts. Harm does not need to be physical. I can rob you and you won’t be physically hurt, but it’s still harmful. I can tape headphones over your ears and play “This is the song that never ends” for 48 straight hours and you won’t be physically harmed, but it’s still harmful.
  
  Something doesn’t need to “physically” harm you to still be “harmful.” And my first, and last, ingestion of pot was certainly harmful. If it has happened to me without knowing why I was having these effects, I would think that I was having a stroke, or a heart attack, or a total mental breakdown.
  
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- deeberj
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 2:19pm
  Look, they may have been high but they didn’t know they had consumed anything to make them high.So to them, they were having a panic attack or extreme paranioa/dizzinesss/feelilng weird from an unknow source. I can see why they call it “recovered”.
  
  No matter if consuming/smoking pot has never killed anyone, no one should have any drug secretly given them. I don’t care how innocuous it seems. Even aspirin can mess up a person allergic to it.
  
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- guntotinsquaw
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:54am
  @USEDCZARSALESMAN
  
  love the name..no an allergy was not the harmful effect I was pointing too. No logical person would think to ask if pot was in a brownie. Don’t get me wrong, I’m for legalizing, regulating and taxing the crap out of drugs. The “war” on drugs is a waste of money and time. But the attitude that pot is safe is wrong. For some, it’s deadly and they may not know it having never been exposed. When taking an allergy test, pot is not an allergen they check for. If my son had a peanut allergy, he would ask if peanuts were in the brownie, logical.
  
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BlackCrow
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:02am
They are in college not grade school, they are students not pupils. The journalism school must be taking the students who wash out of the education department. My engineering professors would have put a paper this badly written into a shredder.

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- Ramv36
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 3:43pm
  Well, as has been said, those who can’t do, teach.
  
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term limits for congress
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:33am
I wonder how much THC is inhaled at the White House on a daily basis?

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RaydocX
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:33am
Oh my God… and no one died?!
While i agree that the intentional intoxication of others should be dealt with by the judicial system and hope that those guilty of doing this face some punishment, unless we are talking shop class or a lab where there are dangerous chemicals in use, the real risk to those victimized here is low.

and given the… political leanings of most professors today, it’s a stretch to suggest this was a first exposure, especially in Boulder.

It’s the first time i’ve heard a ‘panic attack’ associated with weed… except from the parents of high school students panicing that their kiddos are using.

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- deeberj
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:39am
  I used to get panic attacks from weed back in the early ’70′s, before the THC was as high as it is now. It’s why I stopped smoking among other reasons. So yes, people can get panic attacks.
  
  Look, giving someone weed brownies without notifying them is a bad thing, much worse than you are making it out to be. What if someone gives me weed brownies, I don’t know it, they never tell me, and I’m drug tested at work and fail?Those two people were idiots and deserve to get into trouble.
  
  AndI am for weed being decriminalized.
  
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- J@ck_KvK
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:04am
  If you didn’t know why you were suddenly feeling dizzy (among other effects of being high), it could definitely cause a panic attack! I would be freaked out if I suddenly started feeling different and didn’t know what it was, and I’d be pissed if someone drugged me without my knowledge. They deserve the felony charges. I am for the legalization of marijuana, so it has nothing to do with that. I’d be just as pissed if someone slipped me alcohol without my permission/knowledge.
  
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- jungle J
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:11am
  you speak like a criminal.
  
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- BasketFullOfPuppies
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:14am
  And, if these people were never caught, and then their victims were to fail a drug test, there would be many jobs for which they would never be eligible through no fault of their own. Your judgment is as weak as theirs. There is no justification for giving people anything without their knowledge and consent. FWIW, there are also many people in the world with allergies that others wouldn’t be aware of. So, even if these brownies had only been laced with peanuts, they could’ve killed somebody.
  
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- theninthplanet
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:14am
  Or when they drive home, and unintentionally put themselves and everyone they pass by at risk.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:25am
  The only time I ever tried eating pot brownies was years ago in university. “Panic attack” is exactly how I’d describe my reaction if I hadn’t known what to expect. I lost all sense of depth perception, my heart was pounding like a drum in my chest, and I ended up vomiting into a toilet and spending the next few hours on the floor praying that world would stop spinning.
  
  And at least I had a vague idea of the potential side effects going into it! These people? No warning.
  
  It doesn’t matter if there’s no lasting effect; if you’re not expecting the effects in the first place, consuming pot can be horrifying. If that had happened to me I would have called 911, convinced I would die.
  
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- gz22ll
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:28am
  You say no one died but what would you say if someone was driving home from school and had an accident? There is a large portion of the country that does not do recreational drugs I know some find that hard to believe. Take a 115-120 pound student maybe on an empty stomach who eats one of these brownies the effect is different than a 215 pound individual. The two idiots knew what they were doing was wrong and did it anyway because they did not care and thought it was funny. This will happen more with legalization of pot and I hope the penalties are severe.
  
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- COFemale
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:47am
  You can’t make that call as you are not a doctor. Marijuana effects the heart and brain. If one of these students or the professor had a heart condition, it could have ended badly. See this is the problem with stupid people, they hear all this false data and deem it safe. NO DRUG IS SAFE you moron.
  
  When I was younger I tried marijuana. I had heart palpitations so bad, I though I was going to die. Also you don’t know if you are getting a “pure” substance today. Many drug addicts and distributors mix other drugs into each other, many times creating a deadly concoction. Wise up.
  
  Marijuana should have never been made legal for recreational use. The headaches have just begun.
  
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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 5:48pm
  COFemale
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:47am
  When I was younger I tried marijuana. I had heart palpitations so bad, I though I was going to die.
  
  Marijuana should have never been made legal for recreational use.
  =================================
  
  A few puzzling things about what you just said here:
  
  1. Didn’t you know it was illegal?
  2. If you knew it was illegal, then why did you do it?
  3. If you tried it once (and you thought you were going to die afterward….), then why do you still need a law to stop yourself from doing it again?? (especially since it was illegal when you tried it the first time….)
  
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barber2
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:30am
Another stupid prank. Strange that one can be old enough to ” legally” smoke pot by state law and yet still dumb enough to do something as stupid as this . Cause and effect ? Another stupid law.

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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:01am
  I think they should be prosecuted to fullest extent of the law. And then when they get out… should have the snot kicked out of ‘em just so they remember.
  
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- jungle J
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:12am
  it is not a prank it is an assault…..like drugged rape.
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:45am
  like drugged rape.. only without you know… the rape!
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 3:55pm
  Lil Keatie
  These two bong docs are going to be civilly raped once the crim charges are over. Maybe before, the fine institution could also reap some fun in the civil courts. There is a price to pay for your public edumacation dude; smoke up, there are a lot of people looking for jobs and you and like minds out of the worky equation is a good thing.
  
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ozchambers
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:29am
That must’ve been some seriously dense weed brownies.

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piplovestheUSA
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:25am
Some people react badly to asprin. So I guess weed could have very bad effects on some people. I smoked the stuff back in the day. It is good for sleeping if you have a problem getting to sleep. That is about all it is good for. It would be very upseting to be feeling high and not know what is going on. You might think something is very wrong. What professor would eat a brownie from a student?

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- Kupo
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:39am
  I’m sure that at least some of the bad reactions, most likely the panic attack that was mentioned, was due to the student not expecting it to happen, especially if that student had never experienced marijuana before.
  
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wordweaver
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:25am
I’m surprised it took a couple of weeks for this to happen. These knuckleheads equate legalization with “everyone should have some”, whether they want it or not. File this under “unintended consequences” of marijuana legalization. It’s going to be a very thick file.

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- barber2
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:32am
  Agree. More of the “Look At Me ” Generation : I do / believe something, so everybody else better do the same. Duh.
  
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- resme
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:41am
  ““unintended consequences” of marijuana legalization.”
  
  Yeh, When guns were legalized, Murders skyrocketed, /facepalm….
  
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- Displacedsoutherner
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:48am
  I can see this getting minimalized to a “what’s the big deal” status by the dopers. It would be a lot less of a harmless prank (maybe in doper world) if someone had gotten killed or killed another person while trying to drive home.
  
  The “it’s legal, therefore harmless” misconception is going to wind up injuring a lot of people and, as you correctly predict, add to an exploding list of unintended consequences.
  
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booger71
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:23am
Paranoia is why I don’t use MJ. The THC levels are much too high anymore

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toiletclogga
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:14am
Ah, the marijana culture! WTF! I’m sure those defenders of legalization will now come out in force to protect these imbeciles. When you smoke marijuana, your brain turns to mush, and you are unable to determine right from wrong. Two new wards of the state!

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- justangry
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:28am
  You don’t see the difference between taking it oneself and slipping it unknowingly to someone else?
  
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- Johnny Cocheroo
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:37am
  @toilet
  
  Don’t forget to stereotype all gun owners as criminals while you’re at it.
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:38am
  Actually, this here defender of legalization condemns the actions of these students. Being able to put a substance into your own body by choice is one thing. Forcing it upon a non-consensual party is another thing altogether. It flies in the face of the libertarian ideology.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:48am
  Wonder if these guys were dumb even BEFORE they smoked pot ? Can see the problems we
  ll have with another” mind altering” tool in the hands of the immature and the clueless. Extremely irresponsible act.
  
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- toiletclogga
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:53am
  You’ve all just proven my point. Thanks! Go smoke your dope and become..well..dopes!
  
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- resme
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:14am
  “Ah, the marijana culture!”
  
  Lol, It’s no different from the prescribed drug “culture”. These people operate freely with Xanax,codeine,hydro-morphine,prozac in their systems. Yeh, They are your nurses,doctors,construction workers,surgeons…. DUI without the repercussion.
  
  It’s all stupidity.
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 12:09pm
  attempted mass murder, give them the death sentence. now society will have more unemployed liberal art majors on the welfare checks due to the brain damage the drug probably caused.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:13am
The brownie-makers broke the law and thus need to face justice in the courts; though I imagine Obama will make this into an full blown rights issue if one of those arrested is a minority.

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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:11am
Let’s legalize Meth next.

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- Johnny Cocheroo
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:49am
  No, lets take away your guns. Guns actually kill people, marijuana just makes them sick.
  
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- booger71
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:08am
  No just sell speed, MJ opium at a State run recreational drug store just like a liquor store. No one under 21 and tax it 20%, and the 20% goes directly into a fund for drug dependency. People are going to use the stuff, might as well put the cartels, DEA and 40% of the prison population out of business.
  
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