Colorado 10-Year-Olds Caught Dealing Pot

[onehandle]

Source: Gawker

Four 10-year-olds were caught buying and selling their grandparents' pot on a playground in Colorado this week. One young man made $11.

Just a few days late for Colorado's first fully legal 4/20, a ten-year-old boy was caught on Tuesday after successfully selling a bag of weed, stolen from his grandparents, to three other fourth-grade classmates on his school's playground. According to CNN, the classmates split the bag for $11 and when one of the students couldn't pay his share (typical 10-year-old), he instead offered a trade: his cut of the pot for one of his grandparents' edibles.

The selling child is reported to have taken a bite of the edible (a candy bar), but suffered no harmful effects. The group was busted when another student saw their dealings and told school officials.

In a letter that went home with students, the school district's safety director, John Gates, said, "We urge all parents, grandparents and anyone who cares for children to treat marijuana as you would prescription drugs, alcohol or even firearms. This drug is potentially lethal to children, and should always be kept under lock and key, away from young people."

Read more: http://gawker.com/colorado-10-year-olds-caught-dealing-pot-1567324659

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This would be less of a big deal to gun nuttery if they were selling Glocks.

[Ed Suspicious]

1. Dumbasses need to keep it away from 10-year-olds If fully support your right to enjoy cannabis, but

you are under the microscope and are the test-case for the nation. Do it right and don't fuck it up for the rest of us, Colorado.

[Scuba]

4. +1

[angel823]

26. this ^^^^^

Angel in Texas

[Jesus Malverde]

2. hardly LBN

[penultimate]

5. Seems pretty transparent to me (not the poster, but people who write the articles)

[Jesus Malverde]

6. It's about as exciting as reading about kids smoking in the boys room

And gawker is not a reliable source.

[penultimate]

3. Would this be national news if it happened somewhere other than CO?

[jtuck004]

8. It happens all the time in places including CO. <G> n/t

[IronLionZion]

16. Yes

It has been the case ever since medical mj was legalized. Anything pot related becomes sensational.

[dballance]

7. And how many minors are selling their parents' liquor?

Seriously, as if every day in the whole country kids are not stealing their parent's and other relatives liquor. Either to share or sell. This is such a non-story.

[zonkers]

9. Pathetic.

The kid who traded his grandparents edible should have held out for half the baggie. I mean, edibles are expensive!

[jtuck004]

20. I wonder what that would look like as a Common Core problem? Because, you are right, they

do need to learn the value of things.

[Politicalboi]

10. Oh No!!!!!

The CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Little shits are going to fuck it up for the rest of us. They still ruin TV for adults, why not this. But NEVER EVER take our guns away.

[JoeyT]

12. Except they're not really the ones that will fuck it up.

Kids aren't to blame when prohibitionists run around screaming about them. The prohibitionists are to blame. Always have been, always will be. Their "concern" for children can generally be seen by their works: Swear concern for children, demand laws that don't really protect any children but do control the behavior of adults.

[TeamPooka]

11. " potentially lethal to children" except it's not. Pot has never killed anyone. #reefermadness

[840high]

14. Actually , a case of too

many pot cookies has. Just last week.

[frylock]

18. uhhhhhh... no.

[TeamPooka]

22. any link to the story or proof please.

[840high]

29. here

wo Denver deaths tied to recreational marijuana use - CBS ...
www.cbsnews.com/.../two-denver-deaths-tied-to-recreational-...‎
CBS News
Apr 18, 2014 - One man jumped to his death after consuming a large amount of marijuana ... to his death at a Denver hotel on March 11 after eating more of a marijuana cookie than ... and first-time users might consume too much, unaware of how their bodies will react. ... "You're dead," Minn. homeowner told teen burglar .

[TeamPooka]

32. Except the pot didn't kill them. Next.

[bitchkitty]

24. That's not true.

Last edited Fri Apr 25, 2014, 05:43 AM - Edit history (1)

You're probably talking about the Denver student who fell off a balcony? He ate one cookie and as far as I know, the cookie didn't pick him up and throw him off the balcony.

ETA - just read another story. He did eat only one cookie, but the cookie was labeled 6.5 servings. The others ate only one slice of their cookie. He evidently got impatient because he wasn't getting high and ate all of his cookie at once.

Nonetheless, marijuana did not kill this young man. His reaction to too much pot was out of the ordinary, IMO.

[RandiFan1290]

27. Keep trying

[Inkfreak]

28. Bullshit. (nt)

[840high]

30. Not bs

wo Denver deaths tied to recreational marijuana use - CBS ...
www.cbsnews.com/.../two-denver-deaths-tied-to-recreational-...‎
CBS News
Apr 18, 2014 - One man jumped to his death after consuming a large amount of marijuana ... to his death at a Denver hotel on March 11 after eating more of a marijuana cookie than ... and first-time users might consume too much, unaware of how their bodies will react. ... "You're dead," Minn. homeowner told teen burglar .

[fujiyama]

13. Gates' statement is beyond stupid

Marijuana is the equivalent to firearms? Or for that matter alcohol or prescription drugs?

Not one of these idiots can cite a statistic showing marijuana having the same harmful effects as alcohol or prescription drugs. As for guns, well they have no purpose other than destruction...

Still, this is exactly the problem with the thinking in this country. And this is coming from a state that legalized weed. Geez.

That said, I hope folks there do keep it away from kids. Everything coming out of those two states is being scrutinized very heavily.

[Warren Stupidity]

15. i was selling pot when I was 13.

That was back in the 60s. It was illegal. I'm pretty sure kids, even 10 year old kids, have been selling pot to each other for even longer than that.

The media campaign to forestall legalization through Fear Uncertainty and Doubt is in full swing.

[olddad56]

17. I was smoking cigarettes at 12.

maybe that is not worse than selling pot, but I think it might be worse that smoking pot.

[passiveporcupine]

19. OMG young kids smoking pot

Next thing you know they will hold up a kindergarten class with a bag full of doritos.

[FrodosPet]

23. I've been smoking since seven

And on a regular basis since I was 14 (nearly 40 years ago).

I think I turned out pretty well! I have a 142 IQ, a decent job that I am very good at, and a wide range of knowledge and interests.

The prohibitionists need to chill.

[Initech]

21. Follow up story: School vending machines in Colorado report shortage of Oreos, Cheetos, and Funyuns

[otherone]

25. In Newburgh NY all the gangs use kids to rep their territory

They end up in juvie not in jail..