Pupil's cannabis prank lands teacher in hospital, flaps arms thinks he is a bird

[The Straight Story]

Pupil's cannabis prank lands teacher in hospital


A French student’s practical joke got a little out of hand when he gave out his home made cannabis cookies on a school trip. Five classmates ended up in hospital along with their "arm-flapping" teacher who became convinced he was a bird.

The young man, accompanied by his friends and teachers, was in the town of Arras, Pas-de-Calais earlier this month for an entrepreneurs competition.

After dinner on the eve of the contest the student had the whacky idea of sharing his “space cakes” with the group, but neglected to alert them to a secret ingredient contained in the cookies.

A short while later some of the group, including a teacher, had become slightly delirious and began experiencing hot flushes. Initially suspecting food poisoning, teachers called in the emergency services at around 10.30pm.

http://www.thelocal.fr/page/view/cannabis-cookie-prank-sends-delirious-teacher-to-hospital#.UVJvEzei2So

[Electric Monk]

1. It is very un-cool to surprise drug people, no matter the drug

In fact, I'd categorize it as a form of assault.

Even with something as nice as grade A pot.

[bigtree]

2. doesn't ring true

. . . such an extreme reaction to the pot.

[TroglodyteScholar]

3. Agree.

The only people who think mj is actually capable of such effects are people who are entirely unfamiliar with it.

[kestrel91316]

12. I dunno. Sounds to me like the teacher got really goofy and silly.

Pot has a way of doing that to a person.

[TroglodyteScholar]

18. Sure it does.

What it doesn't do is convince you you're of another species. Even the really potent stuff.

[bunnies]

22. *ding ding*

What a ridiculous story.

[LanternWaste]

23. The first summer I smoked, I was emphatically convinced

The first summer I smoked, I was emphatically convinced that I was merely a character in someone else's dream one evening after trying hydro for the first time; and was seriously concerned that I'd simply poof out of existence if she woke up. My reaction at the time seems just as absurd as the bird-man's. Six of one and half a dozen of the other.

Different people react to different things, well... differently.

[enlightenment]

28. Or unless it was laced with something else.

That was very common back in the days I indulged (I especially remember "buddha" which really could "make you see god&quot .

Silly stunt, regardless - and very uncool.

[kestrel91316]

36. I don't know that we know that part for a fact. That may very well be someone else's

(mis)interpretation of something they observed.

[TroglodyteScholar]

37. That could be...

...and others' suggestions that it could have been laced are valid. But on its face, this story looks false, false, false.

[dionysus]

21. i saw something like that only once...

in a party at college, this freshman had never smoked before, ripped some bong hits of dank, and ended up rolling on the floor, flopping like a fish... he was gone...

[Bennyboy]

31. Welll. an amatuer knows nothing

about dosage. I've had some pretty horrible experiences with cannabis edibles. People have no idea how much they are putting in them and the dosage is so strong....

[Warpy]

5. Yes, it had to be contaminated with something else

Poor grade pot is occasionally laced with PCP, which would give this extreme a reaction.

In any case, it's not cool to drug unsuspecting people, especially people you don't know, because not everyone reacts favorably to pot. A lot of people go into a very unpleasant heart rhythm from it, and while not a fatal one, it will make them very sick. Other people become very paranoid on it.

Unless you know the people well and know how they react to cannabis, keep the loaded foodstuffs to yourself.

[bigtree]

14. PCP makes you floaty

can't feel the floor under your feet . . . not really a pleasant feeling (me at 14yrsold).

But I'm not sure about ingesting PCP.

[Blue_Tires]

34. lalz

[Blue_Tires]

33. If it's laced with something *extra*? Oh yeah, I've seen it happen..

[RedCappedBandit]

6. Not a cool thing to do.

[pipoman]

7. LOL. "along with their "arm-flapping" teacher who became convinced he was a bird"

*Duel file under "don't try this" file for kids and "stupid shit kids do".

[lonestarnot]

8. sorry but I don't believe this.

[ljm2002]

9. This story does not ring true...

...not if it was only pot in the cookies.

First let me say that I am in complete agreement with others here, it is never okay to drug someone without their knowledge.

That said, I do not believe for one minute that someone who had ingested pot cookies would think they were a bird and flap their arms.

Next thing you know they'll be claiming the people who ate the pot-laced cookies turned into bats and flew around.

[sakabatou]

10. If this story is true, then it wasn't pot or just pot.

[Turborama]

11. Sounds like something from this...

http://flavorwire.com/184283/a-brief-survey-of-ridiculous-anti-drug-propaganda

That site in the OP have just made a global joke of themselves.

[LadyHawkAZ]

15. Sounds like he added something besides pot to the mix n/t

[BainsBane]

17. I was wondering that myself

but it's been years since I've smoked pot. I've read that it's become far stronger in recent years. So either it's REALLY REALLY stronger, or he laced it with something else.

[OnionPatch]

19. No, it's not really, really stronger.

I have a medical license and have tried some of the best California has to offer. Never even came close to hallucinating. This article is full of it or missing something. (Like a hit of acid?)

[cali]

20. It is so much stronger than the pot of my youth

having said that, my youth was several decades ago.

[EOTE]

25. Today's better stuff is slightly better than the better stuff of the 70s, but that's a moot point

with edibles. You can make cannabutter for baking as strong as you want, even when using really crummy bud. You just use more of it. I know a grower who makes cannabutter using only trimmed leaves from his plants, leaves that a lot of people (foolishly) throw away. The cannabutter he makes from these leaves which contain less THC and cannabinoids than even really shitty brick weed is made into an extremely potent cannabutter. A thin pat on a slice of toast is enough to nicely sedate you for a good 7 hours. If you take too much (as with pretty much any pot edible), you fall asleep and sleep rather well for several hours.

As you and others on this thread have suggested, if that really happened, they ate something other than bud.

[Bennyboy]

32. Well extreme pot dosage can lead to other things as well.

Anxiety, mostly. I know. It happened to me. I freaked out totally on half a cookie at Hornings Hideout on 8-01-03. I had to leave the music bowl and go to where I could no longer hear the music.

But never would I Imagine I was another species. I've taken plenty of hallucinogens as well and never did that. (I did become a TV character for two days however once)

[msanthrope]

16. This is not a prank. This is a crime and a tort. nt

[MineralMan]

24. I prefer mine in a torte.

Sacher Torte is yummy good.
It could be my only food.
I will eat it here or there.
I will eat it anywhere.

[msanthrope]

39. Bakery puns? You tart! nt

[MineralMan]

40. Je suis une tarte de l'oignion.

Deliceuse.

[msanthrope]

43. I make a five allium tart that would make you weep. Just the preparation alone would. nt

[MineralMan]

44. Oh, I love onions...

[msanthrope]

45. You realize that we are both of an age? You, to post it, and me to start singing it without

even clicking.....

I've now clicked it, and my 10-year old is giggling like a loon.

"But it is very, very tasty!"

[MineralMan]

46. That song should be

Reintroduced to every generation.

[G_j]

26. Cop eats pot brownie, thinks he is dead

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/05/11/cop-eats-pot-brownies-gets-high-and-thinks-hes-dead/
9-1-1 call is on YouTube,

DEARBORN, Mich. (CBS)- A bizarre case caught on audio tape in Dearborn was released Thursday as a police officer who allegedly used marijuana he took from a drug bust, moments later called 9-1-1 thinking he had overdosed. The former officer, Edward Sanchez, admitted on the call that he and his wife had consumed about a quarter of an ounce of marijuana in brownies they had baked. During the conversation to this dispatcher the officer said, “I think we’re dying. We made brownies and I think we’re dead, I really do.”

A city councilman, angry Sanchez has not been criminally charged, has vowed to investigate. Dearborn police Commander Jeff Geisinger said the former corporal was allowed to resign and not charged because justice had already been served and he paid a heavy price losing his job and benefits. Although Sanchez failed to log or report the marijuana he seized, if charged only for the marijuana use, he would face up to 90 days in jail and a 100 dollar fine.

[deutsey]

27. He said...I know what it's like to be dead

I know what it is to be sad
And you're making me feel like I've never been born.

[al bupp]

30. Ha, love it! /nt

[G_j]

35. Lol

[patrice]

29. Strange story. The "secret ingredient" was something more than cannabis.

THC isn't a hallucinogen.

[librechik]

38. I'll have whatever (fantasy nonexistent) they're having!!!

as if...

[slackmaster]

41. A teacher thinking he's a bird is actually OK. We can use the eggs.

[WilliamPitt]

42. Going to let The Master answer this dumb shit