14 DAY TRIAL // A two-year-old girl from Longmont, Colorado started acting bizarre and was taken by her mother to the hospital, where she tested positive for THC, the primary psychoactive substance found in marijuana. The child started exhibiting the strange behavior just after eating a cookie in front of her home.
Aida Hernandez, the little girl's mother, became worried when she returned from the grocery store and saw her daughter acting strange, barely opening her eyes and having a hard time walking straight. “She was sleepy, she was opening and closing her eyes, and she couldn't walk very well,” Ms. Hernandez told Fox31 Denver.
She noticed the girl eating a cookie and demanded to throw it away before rushing her to the nearest medical center. Medical staff tested the girl with a toxicology and urine test that proved the two-year-old was under the influence of THC. The child ended up spending New Year's Eve in the hospital, recovering under doctors' supervision.
Colorado officially ended prohibition laws conc erning the use of marijuana, making it legal for adults over 21 to buy the drug from shops all over the state. People are allowed to smoke or eat marijuana indoors since January 1 and it can be found in various forms as government officials are trying to apply regulations similar to those on alcohol for the drug.
Products such as lollipops, brownies, cookies, gum or even joints can be found in dispensaries across the state. The drug is legal but in small quantities, and the most common form in which it can be found is in packed dried leaves.
Police officers are still investigating the circumstances in which the two-year-old got her hands on the spiced-up cookie. For the moment they are following the leads given in the mother's statement and are working together with the social services in order to avoid any similar incidents.