Mother upset with school response after 12-year-old ingests edibles, rushed to hospital
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A Dartmouth parent says she's alarmed and upset after her son had to be taken to hospital after taking cannabis edibles at his junior high school this week.
A Dartmouth, N.S., parent says she’s alarmed and upset after her 12-year-old son had to be rushed to hospital because he consumed cannabis edibles at his junior high school.
Ashley Ryder says not only did the school not call 911, they sent him home on the school bus as normal.
“This could have been a fatal outcome, I am very very thankful it was not. However, they were negligent with my son,” she said.
Ryder says the ordeal began Tuesday, when she received a voicemail from Caledonia Junior High School. The message, which she shared with Global News, stated her son Quinten had told them he had consumed THC-infused edibles given to him by another student.
“I’m not entirely sure what’s going on here, to be perfectly honest,” the voicemail concluded.
After hearing the message, Ryder says she phoned the school back, but no one picked up.
By the time her Grade 7 son got off the school bus, she knew something was wrong.
“He was spacey when he was speaking. He was very slurred,” she said.
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