2 Students Face Charges After 1 Sickened With Edibles At Lyons High School

LYONS, Colo. (CBS4)- Two Lyons High School students are facing charges after one student went to the hospital after eating a marijuana edible. Now the Boulder County Sheriff's Office is investigating.

Both the student who purchased the pot wafer to school and the student who gave it to the 16-year-old girl have been charged. Investigators are still trying to determine whether the girl will face charges herself.

The teen became ill on Monday at Lyons High School. She told investigators that she got a marijuana edible in the form of a wafer from a friend of a friend.

She took bites of it throughout the morning and less than two hours after she finished the wafer, she went to the nurses office because she was feeling sick.

Paramedics made the call to take her to Longmont United Hospital.

"It makes me worried for the students of course, that are participating in this," said student Eliza Wright.

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"The marijuana candies and edibles are usually much stronger and so if students haven't had marijuana before taking an edible, there is a very good chance they will get sick from it," said Boulder County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Heidi Prentup.

Deputies are trying to figure out whether the edible she ingested was a legally purchased marijuana product that got into the wrong hands or whether it came from an illegal source.

The students are facing possession and distribution charges.