On the morning of Tuesday, October 31, 2023, an emergency occurred in Talca, Chile. Ten students reported feeling unwell at Marta Donoso Espejo secondary school. The students consumed “marijuana alfajores,” which made them drunk.

The institution indicated that the sweet – which they call queque – was consumed ‘outside the educational facilities’, T13 reported.

However, in Bíobío he counted seven people affected and reported that, according to Radio Bío Bío, a student was arrested “after being caught selling cannabis sativa” in the establishment in the heart of the capital Maulina.

They said the arrest was carried out by Carabineros officials, who took the minor to the third police station in Talca. According to T13, the teenager is 16 years old.

The boys received care in various health centers, where they reiterated that there was contact with the alfajores who added the medicine “among the ingredients”.

Twenty officials from the municipality of Flavio Alfaro became drunk after consuming a dessert containing cannabis

Effects of marijuana use

Marijuana can cause unwanted side effects, which increase with higher doses. According to the Healthy Children site, the effects of “edible marijuana” can include:

Presentations of this marijuana

What happened at the high school in Talca motivated the management, according to T13, to “as a first measure take the attention of the professional Tens of the establishment, who referred the poisoned students to two health centers in the municipality.”

In the meantime, they contacted the parents and representatives of the drunk students.

So that parents and teachers can talk to children and young people about the dangers of edible marijuana, they remember in Healthy Children that edible marijuana is offered in several “presentations”:

With information from Healthy Children

(JO)