Akron Fraternity hands out Funny Brownies
 

From Fox 8 Cleveland....
Laced Brownies Passed at University of Akron Last Edited: Monday, 11 Feb 2008, 7:20 PM EST Created: Monday, 11 Feb 2008, 7:20 PM EST
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A University of Akron student is rushed to the hospital for eating brownies she claims were laced with marijuana.

Cealneeka Miller says she was walking through the student union last week when a group of fraternity members offered her free brownies and condoms as part of their campaign to promote "safe sex."

Miller ate one of the brownies and several hours later she began hallucinating while she was studying at the library.

After experiencing tremors and seizure-like symptoms, her friend called 911, and Miller was rushed to the hospital.

Fearing the brownies had been laced, her family requested drug tests. Miller's medical records revealed she tested positive for THC, the same chemical found in marijuana. Miller says, "I don't do drugs. I've never felt like that in my life. I felt like I was dying."

The University of Akron declined to comment, but did confirm that two other students were also hospitalized after eating the brownies.

Fox 8 News tried contacting the fraternity, but no one returned our phone calls.

This weekend, University of Akron Police confirmed this is an ongoing investigation. At this time, no charges have been filed.

What in the blazes???? Are you kidding me??? If that's true, not only should that charter get pulled, whatever guys were involved should get expelled. That's some seriously dangerous and stupid isht.

Did they say which fraternity was involved?

I never thought I'd see the day when marijuana would be given out so freely like that. :eek:

It's most likely that it was accidental. They were probably cooking up a regular batch of brownies when they realized it'd be more efficient to bake magic brownies at the same time and got them mixed up.

That is AWFUL!!! Can we get a link?

Pot brownies can get you really high......but that article seems overly sensational. Tremors and siezures????? Come on.....it's a little herb.

Seriously dangerous? No. Not really. Seriously dumb and idiotic? Yeah....very.

It is completely absurd that marijuana is not legal. If the girl went out later that week and drank a beer and smoked a cigarette, they'd both be more harmful to her.

^^Yeah maybe about the beer and cigs, but the difference is if she did/does/will drink that will be a decision that she is making saying, "Hey I want a beer," rather than "oh a free brownie then now I am in the ER."

Returning from the Hijack...

They still haven't named the fraternity at Akron, but will try to find out from a student on this board that attends the school. The fraternities listed on the website are:

• Alpha Sigma Phi
• Lambda Chi Alpha
• Lonestar
• Phi Delta Theta
• Phi Gamma Delta
• Phi Kappa Tau
• Phi Sigma Kappa
• Sigma Alpha Epsilon
• Sigma Nu
• Tau Kappa Epsilon
• Theta Chi

I'm an alum and I can't even figure it out.....I'll keep trying though

How does one go to the ER after ingesting marijuana?

It's virtually impossible to OD on the stuff.

The beer is much more likely to land one in the emergency room.

I guess the cigarettes could burn you...

Is it dangerous? Probably not.

Is it stupid to drug your guests? Extremely.

I believe that if I were experiencing symptoms of being high without knowingly engaging in any illegal substances, I sure as heck would go to ER. It's not as though you're knowingly doing a drug and then going to ER because you're high. In fact, when I was painting my son's room with Killz once, I started to get really dizzy. I'd been having some other medical problems and was contemplating going to ER. I thought maybe I was just overdoing it and sat on the front porch for a bit to rest. I started to feel fine. I went back in and got up on the ladder to do the high part where the wall and ceiling meet and started getting dizzy again. That's when it clicked that I was getting high from the fumes of the Killz. But, had I not known I had been exposed to anything, I would be very scared.

That was really stupid. Why would anyone do that?

http://www.myfoxcleveland.com/myfox/...d=1.1.1&sflg=1

That's the link to the original story and it doesn't say which fraternity.

My point (bolded). I'm not saying she OD'd, but I can not blame her for going to the hospital when she is feeling 'strange' after eating.

Some of us have never used marijuana or other illegal substances so wouldn't know how we're "supposed" to feel when illegal substances are ingested. (I've never smoked cigarettes, either, but that would be a choice of a legal substance versus someone forcing it on me :))

Soooooo if someone was to give me a brownie and I started feeling wierd, I wouldn't be like "oh...it must've been laced with something...yay, I'm officially a weed head."

I'd be wondering why I feel so wierd and going to the ER or someplace to get checked out. That's extremely dangerous because you don't know how her body responded to the substance. Plus, what if she was about to operate a motor vehicle or do something where she had to be drug tested?

Accident or not, those idiots need to be reprimanded because it's both stupid and dangerous. It's "virtually impossible" to OD but it isn't impossible, especially since marijuana is sometimes laced with other crap.

^^^You are my post mentor! That is what I meant.

I have NO IDEA how I should feel if I smoked anything as I never have before....mor the less ate it.

One of my favorite movies is "Never Been Kissed." I watch it everytime it comes on. :)

Drew Barrymore went crazy after eating those laced brownies.

Oh hells yes.

Vitamin A....Vitamin B...Vitamin T...H...C!

I live in a city where pot of practically legal. I've never seen anyone "lace" good herb with anything. There's no point in doing that.

The act was stupid and I understand completely how one could freak out having never felt that way before.......but ingesting a weed brownie is not "extremely dangerous". It's actually better for you than just straight smoking it.

....and it really is pretty much impossible to OD on marijuana. I was reading a study that was done at UCLA and I believe they stated that you would have to smoke something like 27,000 joints in a certain time frame to kill yourself ( like 2-4 hours).

All I can say is that Marijuana is expensive! I can't imagine why anyone would waste their money giving it to people who don't want to get high. That being said, I don't do any drugs and I would be really really mad if someone gave me one of those brownies.

No such thing. It's illegal.

People lace marijuana sometimes. You don't have to "see" it for it to happen across the country. (Unless you are the resident weed expert who is in charge of the preparation and distribution of weed across the country)

Unknowingly and unwillingly ingesting drugs is as "extremely dangerous" as the person who unknowingly and unwillingly ingested it feels that it is.

But you're interpreting "dangerous" strictly in "could kill you personally" terms (and her reactions do still sound pretty severe, in any case). What if she ate the brownie then got behind the wheel? What if she ate the brownie then went off to her nanny job where she was responsible for young children? What if she ate the brownie then went off to her part-time job where she works in a kitchen with hot surfaces and sharp objects? There is still plenty of "danger" in this scenario. And by the way...

I'm not talking about getting high and driving, getting high and walking down the street, getting high and taking care of a child, etc. etc. etc.

I'm talking about strictly eating brownies with THC butter in it. It isn't going to hurt you other than making you really high.

Great, they were "hospitalized". I cut my finger once and was "hospitalized". Doesn't mean I was in any grave danger.

The thing about giving people substances without consent is that you have no control over how they will feel or what they do that will be affected by the substances. That's the point.

Really? No such thing? So the 20 some odd states that have decriminalized marijuana laws.......is that like......a made up joke or something?

.....and since you live in Austin and everything, please tell me more about what I don't know about this city. You are more likely to get a ticket for J walking than you are for having some pot on you here. Sure, it is "illegal", I guess. It's also the lowest priority among law enforcement procedure and has recently been put on a list of things that an officer can choose himself whether or not to cite. If you have less than an ounce on you, they are basically instructed to write you a misdemeanor ticket and let you go. A speeding ticket is more expensive.

I'm not saying that it absolutely doesn't happen.....but it isn't common whatsoever. What is it laced with, when it is? You seem to know. Usually, lacing marijuana means you mix it with tobacco.

Well, alrighty then....


No such thing as "practically legal." If it is illegal in your state, except for medicinal use, then it is still illegal unless it is possessed (and used) as the law permits.

So are you saying that marijuana has been decriminalized in your state, beyond legal medical use? ORLY? Of course not.......

That doesn't make it "practically legal."

Whether you get a ticket for marijuana possession at the cop's discretion because they don't want to overcrowd jails(http://blog.austindefense.com/articl...led-substance/) or are arrested for it, it is still illegal. Jails in almost every city in this country are overcrowded because of low level drug offenders--that includes those 20 states that you claim have decriminalized marijuana.

Plus there are still cops on the beat for marijuana possession (including cops who have gotten killed during marijuana busts in Austin).


Marijuana can and has been laced with tobacco, crack, powdered cocaine, embalming fluid, and other substances. This is why there are different slang terms for marijuana joints. Laced marijuana has been purchased by people who want that extra high, confiscated by narcotics divisions, and distributed at parties where people have gotten sick because of it.


Mas preguntas?

mccallan edited his post for it to make more sense. :) Perhaps after doing some researching.

So you know that it's illegal. The "practically legal" was an error on your part.

Law enforcement still prioritizes it, they just prioritize it for certain "types" of offenders. Figure that one out.

No, I simply added the part about tobacco. My posts make perfect sense to me.

Again, I live here.......you don't. You can post articles and lecture me about marijuana laws in my own state and the city I live in all you want. For low level marijuana possession and recreational pot smokers.......it is practically legal here, regardless of the fact that it may be illegal under the letter of the law. Evidently that is a really hard concept for you to understand. Really though, stop trying to argue. I know that is going to be incredibly difficult for you considering how much you love the sound of your own voice.

In regards to lacing herb with other drugs.....I've heard of putting all of that in marijuana. I have never once heard of marijuana being mass produced and distributed in that manner. I'm sure it is entirely plausible for smaller scale distributors though. Most of the time when I have seen that, people buy the pot separately and add other things in themselves.

It isn't. It just depends on who the possessor/user is.

I posted that site for your reference because I overlooked the part of your post where you admitted that it wasn't really legal.

Dude, you responded to my post like you were clearing the air about something. You weren't. I'm not arguing with you, I am responding to your replies.

I'd rather someone admit their points are inaccurate and misapplied and shut up than act like people are picking arguments out of their asses.

Good.

Am I the only one who read "practically legal" to mean that there is such a high percentage of users that law enforcement can't take it very seriously because 1/3 of the city would constantly be in and out of jail? That's the way I took it, at least. Since everyone knows that pot is illegal everywhere in this country, when someone says something like that, I interpret the statement in the most reasonable way it can be interpreted. I don't assume they're misinformed.

Hahaha, you are fucking arguing with me plain as day. Well, actually.......to you......it's probably "educating me".

My points are not inaccurate or misapplied. You are too ridiculously stubborn to realize what I am trying to say.

Take a step back and try to comprehend what I mean by "practically legal". It really isn't that hard. There's already a poster here who "got" what I was trying to say.

I assume people are misinformed if they use phrases like "practically legal." Not only because "practically legal" doesn't exist but because it only applies to the people who law enforcement choose not to enforce the law on.

That's discretionary bullcrap that results in certain "types" of people being arrested versus ticketed (or ignored).

And his assertions of "practically legal" were used to preface his expertise on marijuana. Yikes.

Either way, the main point was already made so that's that.

Thank you. That's all I meant. Nothing more, nothing less. Apparently thinking that way is totally ludicrous/foreign/asinine to some. Oh well.

To me, it's replying.

I know what you meant by "practically legal" and there's still no such thing. But you wouldn't know that because you probably aren't the "type" who will be arrested and detained for marijuana possession.

So you take a step back.

It's a figure of speech used to highlight the fact that marijuana in Austin, Texas is tolerated to such a high extent that it would appear to be practically legal. That is not a hard concept to understand. You can stop telling me that there is no such thing. Seriously.

......and what exactly is my "type", dick? Please, please go down the road I think your heading towards. I'd love to here it. I don't walk around town thinking that I am above the law or that drug use in this town is perfectly legal. I never once stated that.

White and not of the lower socioeconomic strata, college educated, probably doesn't spend a substantial amount of time in certain neighborhoods, and would probably not need a public defender if you were arrested. DUH.

If that acknowledgement makes me a dick then I guess you're a p....

ETA: Change "white" to "black" and I also fit that description. My knowledge of crime and arrest data is not because I fit the general description of the "types" of people who are targeted and arrested for drug offenses.

Exactly.

Thanks for the explanation. The way you phrased that and put quotes around "type" made it seem like you meant that in quite a more negative way.

Sorry for jumping the gun.

You asked for clarification so it's cool.

:)