Just thought that this was interesting. PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida (CNN) -- Two third-graders at a Florida elementary school are facing felony charges Wednesday after police said they were found to have 15 plastic bags of mar1juana. Port St. Lucie police said a cafeteria worker at the Rivers Edge Elementary School told them a 9-year-old boy had shown her a plastic bag of what appeared to be pot. The boy had 12 small bags of mar1juana, according to a police report. The student admitted he attempted to sell some of the bags to another third-grader, according to police. A second pupil was found in possession of three bags, police said. He told police he got them from the first boy on the bus on the way to school. The boy with three bags was charged with possession of mar1juana, a felony because it happened on school grounds. The second boy was charged with felony possession of mar1juana with intent to distribute. The boy with 12 bags initially told police he found them on the ground in Fort Pierce, a city north of Port St. Lucie where he lives. He then said another child gave it to him to sell. Police said they are looking for a Fort Pierce teenager in connection with the incident. Port St. Lucie is an Atlantic Coast city about 120 miles north of Miami. Police estimate the drugs -- about 16 grams of mar1juana -- were worth about $75. The boys were booked into the St. Lucie Regional Detention Center and then released to their parents or legal guardians Monday night. A police spokesman said these are the youngest children they have arrested on charges of mar1juana possession. A school district spokeswoman said the Rivers Edge Elementary School sent a letter to parents explaining the situation. She called it an isolated incident, the first of its kind involving elementary-age students in her district. The students were suspended for 10 days and have been recommended for expulsion under the school district's zero-tolerance policy for drugs.
Four-year-old girl brings teacher a gift of mar1juana HOLYOKE, Mass. - Instead of the regular holiday gifts, a Holyoke teacher received a small bag of mar1juana from a 4-year-old student. When the Churchill Head Start Early Childhood Center teacher Iris Galvez asked where she got the gift Monday afternoon, the girl told her she got it "from her mommy," according to a police report, obtained by the Union-News of Springfield. However when the girl's mother, Shelin Colon, 32, came to pick up her daughter from school, she denied any knowledge of where the girl might have gotten the mar1juana, police said. "It couldn't be true. I don't have any drugs in the house," Colon said, according to the police report Police have not filed charges in the case.
Any parent whose child that young has mar1juana needs to lose custody...plain and simple. The reality is that most of the time they got the drug from the parent without the parent noticing. In the case of the two boys...I'd be willing to bet that they are dealing for their parents.
