COLLEGE STATION, Texas (FOX 44) – Three students at a College Station charter school ate candy they thought was for Halloween but ended up being laced with THC.
According to the International Leadership of Texas (ILTexas), the incident occurred at its ILTexas College Station K-8 campus on Thursday. One of the students noticed the candy tasted unusual and spit it out. However, the other two children ingested the candy. One of them started to feel unwell and was taken to the school nurse.
The nurse examined the candy and realized it was laced with THC. As soon as this was discovered, school leadership was notified and immediately contacted local authorities and EMS.
ILTexas says the College Station Police Department started an investigation and determined that the student who brought the candy to school and their family were unaware of its contents. One of the students’ parents shuttled non-ILTexas students from a neighboring high school back and forth to a Halloween event the night prior. The parent was unaware that the candy was left behind in the car.
The ILTexas student picked up the candy from the backseat on the way to school thinking it was Sour Patch Kids Watermelon Sours. Police have determined that the acquisition of this candy was unintentional and accidental, and there was no malintent involved. All parties are fully cooperating with the investigation, and no criminal charges will be filed.