Buzzby

Girls Arrested for Pretending Parsley was Pot
Join Together | 12/01/2005

Two 10-year-old Florida girls were arrested and suspended from school for bringing a bag of parsley to school and telling classmates it was marijuana, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported Nov. 29.

The students at Old Kings Elementary School in Palm Coast were called in by school officials who learned that they were showing the bag to other students. The girls said they were pulling a prank, but were arrested, taken to the Flagler County Inmate Facility, and charged under a state law that makes it illegal to claim any substance is an illicit drug.

The girls were later released to their parents but were suspended from school and will have to attend drug-awareness classes.

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MrIMStoned

If we don't punish the ten year olds now then soon the nine year olds will be playing make believe too. Is that how you want your kids to grow up?

How do you even charge a ten year old? I was under the impression that until your twelve you can't be charged with a crime. Maybe thats only where I live or maybe I imagined it. I remember a news article in my local paper once complaining about orginized crime rings using 11 year olds to steal cars because they couldn't be charged.

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4way2short0

You want the kids to learn, but yet you suspend them from school. That makes alot of sense. I think they should be told of the severity of bringing marijuana or claimig to have marijuana in school, could be. I don't think the cops should have ever been contacted on this matter. Except to tell this to the kids.

Buzzby

There's no way these kids are going to be prosecuted. The whole police/arrest thing was a tactic to scare the crap out of them, their friends, and their parents. I hope they are convinced of the severity of their "offense".

From now on they'll be sure to keep anything to do with marijuana very secret.

manatee54

Geez, you would have thought they would have at least picked Oregano . .that is probably the closest to seeming like the real thing.

oneluv4boognish

Ten year olds don't know that though...by the time they're 12 and smoking MJ, they'll be bringing in oregano to sell to classmates in order to fund their MJ habit.