Colorado kids getting into parents' pot-laced "goodies"

Trevor Hughes usatoday.com DENVER -- The easy availability of marijuana in Colorado is raising concerns among police, parents and teachers who worry that kids are getting sick from eating pot-infused "edibles." Manufacturers are adding marijuana to everything from cookies to chocolate bars, sodas and candies, and strength and serving size vary widely. Colorado on Jan. 1 permitted special stores to sell marijuana to adults but retained a legal ban on possession of pot by minors. That hasn't stopped them from getting hold of it: Twelve students were suspended last month after they ate marijuana-infused candies at their suburban Denver middle school. The two students who supplied the candies are being expelled. "A couple of our teachers noticed some kids who weren't acting right," says Steve Saunders, a spokesman for Shaw Heights Middle School in Westminster, Colo. "You never know when they're walking down the hall what they're eating. It's a lot harder to tell when they're eating edibles instead of out smoking a joint in the parking lot." Saunders says kids have been bringing pot to school for decades -- and getting in trouble for it. What's changed, he said, is the greater availability. to read more: usatoday.com