Education

Gwinnett student gets sick from marijuana brought to school, officials say

Jan 20, 2017

A Gwinnett County middle school student fell sick Friday morning after a classmate gave her some edible marijuana, school district officials said.

The student, a seventh-grader at Radloff Middle School, was taken from school by her mother, said Gwinnett spokesman Bernard Watson. One student brought a sealed bag of prescription marijuana edibles that was in the form of either gummy or candy and shared it with a classmate, Watson said. The other classmate shared it with the girl who got sick.

Watson said school district officials are investigating the incident.

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Eric Stirgus joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2001. He is the newsroom's education editor. Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Eric is active in the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists and the Education Writers Association and enjoys mentoring aspiring journalists.

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