School officials in northern Colorado are asking parents to take care with their newly legal recreational marijuana, after fourth graders were caught dealing the drug on an elementary school campus, according to ABC News.
John Gates, director of safety for Weld County School District 6, said Wednesday that the students involved, three 10-year-old boys and a 10-year-old girl at Greeley's Monfort Elementary School, faced tough discipline but not suspension or expulsion and did not elaborate on their punishment, ABC News reported.
Only one student admitted to trying any of the drug, a small bite of an edible marijuana item, and a subsequent medical exam did not indicate any harmful effect had been caused, Gates said, according to ABC News.
The marijuana appears to have been legally purchased by grandparents their families and no charges were expected to be filed, Gates said, ABC News reported. Gates said a student who was not involved alerted school officials that a student sold marijuana to other students on Monday, and that on Tuesday a student tried to trade edible marijuana for some of the student seller's marijuana.
"This could not have happened had they secured their marijuana," Gates said of the grandparents, according to ABC News. "Nothing good's going to come from having 10-year-olds find it, use it or take it to school."
