Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.RELATED - Manitoba's Poison Centre has seen an increase in kids needing medical help after ingesting marijuana edibles – Mar 23, 2023Police are investigating after five students at a Halifax elementary school were taken to hospital after consuming cannabis edibles that were brought to the school by a classmate.
In a statement on Thursday, Halifax Regional Police confirmed that officers responded to Springvale Elementary at about 2:45 p.m. Wednesday in relation to a suspected drug ingestion by several students. “A student brought packages of labeled cannabis edibles from home to the school and shared with four other students,” said police Const. John MacLeod in an email.A text and email was sent to parents at the school on Wednesday evening notifying them to the incident.
“Please take a moment this evening to talk with your children about the importance of not sharing food/drink with other students, and not accepting food/drink from other students,” the email read.Mom who left toddler at home while on 10-day holiday gets life sentence for murder‘God and my daughter have forgiven me’: Mom who left 16-month-old home to go on vacation sentenced to life in prison