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But putting fake vomit on a teachers chair could induce a heart attack. So maybe that should be a crime too.
Unless this is something the kid has done before, I would maybe suspend him for one day. There is no need to ruin his life over a relatively harmless prank.
He sent someone to the hospital. You call that "a relatively harmless prank"? It is not a matter for the school system to decide how he is punished; it is up to the legal system. If his "life is ruined" it his his own fault. At 18 years of age he should have better judgement than that.
I say file charges but it should read UP TO ten years. Unless student as a heck of a quick record at 18 likely fine and probation; plus school expulsion by school. The teacher can also sue if she wants.
I'm not anti-marijuana but I don't think this is a harmless prank at all.
Depending on one's sensitivity to it, weed/hash can be very strong and disorienting, and it's not necessarily something you would want to take unless you were in comfortable surroundings.
I don't think we need to be ruining lives with prison terms over it, but it's still serious and I think expulsion is probably a good idea. In-school suspension is a little too light for this.
The first thing I wondered was, why would any teacher eat anything that a student supposedly made? I won't eat anything away from home normally. I won't even eat at someone elses house unlessI know them really well, and sometimes not even then. Then again, I'm picky that way.
This kid should be charged and spend up to at least 364 days in prison. Not long enough to totally ruin his life by having a felony on his record, but enough to properly punish for what he did. This is the kind of twerp that gets a job at McDonalds and thinks it's funny to blow his nose or spit in your cheeseburger, or worse.
No, he didn't. Just because someone CHOSE to go to the hospital doesn't mean anything.
Yes. Clearly.
What if the student would have put some LSD in the cookie, or some cocain? What if the student would have put something in it that accidentaly killed the teacher?
Suspension is probably enough. Certainly not prison. Sending a kid to prison for a stupid prank is cruel. If further action must be taken, probation and/or mandatory community service should be sufficient.
Did you read the article? The teacher ended up in the hospital. They explained that when marijuana is eaten it is absorbed into the system in higher doses for days. They likened this to giving someone who has not built up a tolerance to alcohol a fifth of whiskey. This is beyond a stupid prank. This is drugging someone.
[quote=Ivorytickler;38722020]What is the appropriate punishment for the 18 year old student who gave a teacher a cookie made with marijuana that sickened him?
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If the student is convicted of tampering with food, the felony could carry up to 10 years behind bars.
[i'm all for the legalization of marijuana but there should still be rules]
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