Pot-Laced Cookies Sold at Convenience Stores

Children are sickened after eating cookies and brownies laced with medical marijuana. Also, doctors warn against "relaxation" brownies.

March 04, 2011

NEW YORK - ABC news reports that children in California and Illinois have become ill in the last several weeks after eating cookies and brownies made with marijuana.

Several elementary school students from Vallejo, Calif., got sick after eating marijuana-laced cookies given to one of them by a convenience store clerk. A Colorado company that makes the cookies say the product is legal because they are sold for medical purposes. However, the kids and apparently the c-store clerk did not know that.

Local police say the packages were not clearly marked as containing medical marijuana, and they are investigating who gave the cookies to the c-store clerk.

Meanwhile, Colorado state Rep. Cindy Acree has proposed a bill to ban the sale of products containing marijuana, even if the products are cleared for medical use, notes the news source.

In Charlotte, North Carolina, a doctor at the Carolinas Poison Center has issued a warning about Lazy Cakes, which are found in convenience stores and touted as "relaxation brownies," reports WSOCTV.com.

Lazy Cakes are made with 3.9 milligrams of melatonin per serving. According to the label, the package contains two servings, or 8 milligrams of melatonin, if a person eats the whole thing. Dr. Anna Dulaney told the news source that this nearly triple the amount a doctor would prescribe to an adult as a sleep aid.

"People may be taking unnecessary risks if they eat these, thinking they??re just going to relax," she said, adding that the product could make excessively sedated, excessively drowsy or possibly unconscious.

The FDA does not regulate melatonin, so the company that makes Lazy Cakes is not breaking the law, and also says that it has not received any complaints from folks after eating the product.

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