Two students at the University of Colorado-Boulder are in
serious trouble with the law after feeding marijuana-laced brownies to
unknowing classmates and a professor. Thomas Ricardo Cunningham, 21, and Mary
Elizabeth Essa, 19, were “arrested on suspicion of planning and committing second-degree
assault and inducing consumption of controlled substances by fraudulent means,”
according to the LA Times.
The pair brought the brownies to class on a “bring food”
day, causing major mayhem. Their professor had to be hospitalized after she continued
to fall in and out of consciousness, and two other classmates were also
hospitalized with anxiety and lightheadedness. Five others had a “bad reaction”
to the brownies.
The University of Colorado-Boulder ranks No. 1 on the
Princeton Review’s list of Reefer Madness schools, and the state recently voted
to legalize marijuana for recreational use. But that doesn’t help Essa and
Cunningham much, as it’s still illegal to give it to others without their
knowledge.
“This is something we take very seriously,” said Ryan Huff
of UC’s campus police. “Putting marijuana into a food product and providing it
to somebody without their knowledge has always been illegal, and that will
continue to be illegal, even after Amendment 64. So I just want to make this
clear that these are serious felony cases and we take these very seriously.”
Bronson Hilliard, spokesman for the university, agreed that
this is no laughing matter. “Anybody who thinks this is cute, anybody who
thinks that this was funny, is going to face pretty severe sanctions, both
criminally and potentially within the student conduct process,” he said.
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