Maryland teacher pot brownie - A 17 years old high school student is facing criminal charges after his teacher fell ill from eating a piece of brownie laced with marijuana that he gave her.
Anne Arundel County police have revealed that the Maryland teacher pot brownie incident happened at Broadneck High School on Monday. Authorities opened an investigation after the teacher complained of feeling sick and disoriented. She was later hospitalized.
School officials say the student has been identified, although his name has been withheld. The student confessed to giving his teacher half of a brownie laced in with pot. The boy, who is from Arnold, said he was eating the brownie during third period when the teacher asked for a piece of the pastry.
He has revealed that he became afraid and confused when the teacher asked, so he gave her the brownie without informing her that it was made with a special pot recipe.
Investigators have discovered that the teen also gave his 16-year-old girlfriend a piece of the pot brownie. Although she was lethargic, she did not experience the same side-effects as their teacher.
"This wasn't a smart decision-making here," Anne Arundel County police Lt. T. J. Smith said. "The student relayed to us that he panicked and was scared to tell her it had marijuana in the brownie and she consumed the brownie."
Police reports indicate that besides those two, no other person ate the pot brownie. School authorities have warned students not to eat food from their classmates. The school also sent an e-mail to parents to inform them about the incident, which has been described as an 'isolated case.'
"The thought, first of all, that a student would bring a brownie laced with marijuana to school is difficult to absorb. The fact that the student would provide it to a teacher is even more difficult," Anne Arundel County Public Schools spokesman Bob Mosier said.
The student was processed at a juvenile detention center and charged with administering and distributing marijuana. He was also charged with reckless endangerment and second degree assault. Reports indicate that the teenager has been released to a parental guardian.
"[He] shouldn't even be bringing it to school, so regardless of whether you wanted the teacher to have it or not, you shouldn't have had it in school to begin with, shouldn't be consuming it to begin with," Smith said.
The Maryland teacher pot brownie incident has gone viral since the news broke. It's unclear why the teacher was asking the student for his brownie and if the boy's girlfriend also faced disciplinary measures.
