2 Colorado college kids face up to 81 years in prison for giving pot brownies to class
 

Mary Elizabeth Essa, the second of two University of Colorado students accused of sickening a professor and seven classmates last week with pot-infused brownies, formally was charged with 18 felonies today by Boulder County prosecutors.

Essa, 19, was charged with eight counts of second-degree assault and eight counts of inducing the consumption of a controlled substance, one count of each charge representing each victim, as well as one count each of conspiracy to commit second-degree assault and conspiracy to induce consumption of a controlled substance because they are alleged to have worked together.

Thomas Ricardo Cunningham, 21, was charged with identical counts Wednesday at his hearing.

According to police and court records, Cunningham and Essa brought marijuana-laced brownies to their history class Friday as part of "bring food day," but did not tell anyone else in the class that the brownies were laced with THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.

Later that day, assistant professor Celine Dauverd and several students complained of symptoms including dizziness, anxiety and loss of consciousness. Dauverd and two students were hospitalized after ingesting the brownies.

CU police said both Cunningham and Essa have admitted the brownies contained marijuana.

Each of the second-degree assault charges, Class 4 felonies, carries a possible prison sentence of two to six years, while the inducing consumption of a controlled substance charges and the conspiracy charges, all Class 5 felonies, carry possible prison sentences of one to three years each.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingne...8-felonies-pot

Good. Drugging people against their will is pretty serious.

They're not going to get any even close to that maximum sentence but they should get something.

It is a dumb ass thing to do for sure. However the sentence is ridiculous.
Something more constructive is in order, i am sure the judge is just stringing them along for awhile.

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Very uncool of them...and criminal. :mad:

I've been "dosed" with acid (lsd) once, and I had a drink spiked with a roofie another time in Vegas while at Comdex back in the day (I think I was served a drink intended for someone else), so I can tell you firsthand that it is quite an unpleasant exxperience.

I consume cannabis edibles on a regular basis and I am sure that to the uninitiated and unsuspecting it can be quite unnerving. I find it easy to work at a highly productive level with a nice body/mind buzz for hours that the edibles which I eat produce, but I know what I'm eating, and at what dosage ("you only need to eat one", as the saying goes :winkwink:).

I like to do the opposite sometimes...I tell people that regular brownies contain cannabis when they don't. Be sure to give them coffee or cocoa along with it (a warm mild caffiene stimulant), and many people will swear that they are starting to feel the effects after awhile.

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BTW: It's good to have some stash to share with them after pulling your little prank though. No harm, no foul. :)

As for punishment, yes, I would say that the two that served pot brownies to their unsuspecting professor and fellow students deserve some sort of punishment.

However, I think that they know they fucked up big time, so an apology, expulsion, a fine, community service, and maybe even a little time in the clink, but to me 80 years sounds just a tad excessive for a stupid prank.

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These are a couple of spoiled, sheltered suburban kids. Basically typical CU students. They will plead down to something and probably wont get any jail time at all.

waste of weed

Did you wake up with your underwear around your ankles and a sore potato patch? :Oh crap

Holy shit, they fed pot brownies to eighteen people or so without telling them?

Some people might be allergic to it, some might get sick; Being as I am guessing these are all college students and who knows if someone had to take a piss test the following day for some crappy job or whatever.

I'm anti drug but cool with pot, but if you fed it to me without my knowledge... I'd fly off the fucking handle.

No, thank goodness! My wife got me back to my hotel room, although I did apparently pee on the wall and carpet in the hotel room, I'm told. I had a fuzzy blackout kind of feeling the next day and could barely remember a thing (like how I got back to the hotel, up to my room, etc).

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this is a serious crime. some people dont want to get high. :1orglaugh chocolate blunt wrapper :pimp for me

2-3 years in jail is my prediction. More if somebody really got sick.

Yes they should be punished but 18 felonies? Would they charge the same with some high school kids spiking the punch?

COloroda is one of the states that supposedly legalized marijuana this election. The irony is not lost on me.

What a totally fucked up thing to do.

I think 2 years would be perfect for this crime. If someone is not criminally minded 2 years is well enough to learn your lesson.

supposedly? No... they did it. Plain and simple. Along with Washington state. More will follow. And sooner or later the feds will realize they're fighting the wrong fight. and hopefully we can end this stupid drug war within the next 10-15 years.

That is a fucked up thing to do, but I don't think these guys need to go to jail for it, or if they do maybe only for 30-90 days. They need to get in some real trouble for this, but it isn't worth messing up their lives over.

Give them a month in jail and force them to serve some serious community service where they can be exposed to people with real drug problems to see how this is a serious problem for some people.

This. Kinda stupid to send 2 college students to a state "pound me in the ass" prison for weed brownies. They fucked up, but I don't think we are necessarily safer by taking them "off the mean streets of the University of Colorado".

Put them in county jail for a year. After 90 days if they are model prisoners allow them to leave each morning for community service jobs, returning to spend the night in jail.

Yep, I don't think these are dangerous criminals. They are dumbass kids who thought they were pulling a prank. Scare the shit out of them. Give them enough of a punishment that they learn to think before acting and let them go forward and become productive members of society.

I wouldn't even be opposed to having part of their community service include them doing things for those people that got sick from their little prank.

damn junkies polluting others without their knowledge

world will be much better now, thanks usa

i hope they will get to guantanamo and somebody will make pyramide of them!

Still doesn't give you the right to drug people against their will.
Sex is legal but rape isn't.

you would not mind somebody slipping some LEGAL pill in your drink, huh? :2 cents::1orglaugh

as part of "bring food day" :1orglaugh

When I was in high school my best friend's project was to make cookies for the class. Everyone had to make something. I was about to eat mine and he told me to stop and that he beat off in the batter. lol He said he just wanted to see all the hot girls in class eat his cum.

Careful what you eat.

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That is DISGUSTING. Do you still talk to this madman or did he end up in a psych ward?

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Twisted little fuck.

He went on to a successful career at McDonald's making tarter sauce.

Vaccines are a lot more dangerous than pot, yet we inject them in babies before they can make an informed decision :2 cents:

Lol, that is priceless!

I've had a drink spiked on me, never found out if it was someone I know or not, I assume it was someone I know, I'm not that good looking so I can't see some chick trying to get me drunk. Anyways it was scary, not knowing what it was and what the effects would become once I was already at the point where I could barely stand.

Anyways, I have no issues with pot smoking, frankly I have no issues with people who choose to do other drugs as well. But these two need to go to jail, minimum 6 months to a year, they likely meant no harm, and just wanted to have fun, and wanted the others to have fun, but that's not the point, they need to learn a lesson that you can't do everything you think of. What if 2 guys were there on football scholarships and fail a drug test, or like someone said, had a random drug test for a job and don't get the job because of it.

you can eat like 50 pounds of weed and you'll live, this scared a few of the people so bad they ended up in the hospital!

I'm a pothead, and I wouldn't like it...but I wouldn't want to see someone go to jail for 80 years because of it. Even if I was drugged with an actual "drug".

If more people were educated about marijuana, and it wasn't so demonized, this act wouldn't be looked at as some kind of assault. No one has died from a pot overdose.

They should be punished, but this looks like some kind of statement against the new legalization law by a Republican judge.

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Here's the story

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/12/1...elony-charges/

80 years is just journalistic bullshit to make it sound more "scandalous" :)

just curious, how would you feel about this if one of the unsuspecting drugged kids ran their car into you on the way home and broke you neck or some shit like that and you had to spend rest of your life in chair?? dumbass kids?

its a classic prank
unfortunately the US legal system is not even close to prank friendly.
hope the kids will get a break.

But it didnt happen, did it. But the almost daily mass shootings do happen, how does a gun pushing conservative such as yourself feel about that?

You can't be serious?

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Just made a batch of Betty "Cocker" cookies... :food-smil02

Who wants one? :jerkoff :helpme :party-smi

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They have not been sentenced; they haven't even been tried yet.

How many charges do you think it should be? It is always one per victim.

Irony? Just because weed is legal does not mean you can force it on someone.

You are truly an idiot.

Another idiot. :2 cents:

I would be horribly bitter and want some severe punishment. However, that isn't what happened. You can't send someone to jail for 80 years because something might have happened.

I do think they need to learn a lesson, have the shit scared out of them and have some consequences for their actions, but throwing someone in jail for something like this is not the answer.

We don't know much about these kids, but let's assume they are just typical college kids. Fucking up their life by putting them in jail for a long period of time isn't going to make the world a better place.All it is going to do is take two guys who likely would have otherwise got out of school, got jobs and became productive members of society and put them into the system where they may likely stay for the rest of their lives.

Had something horrible happened and someone was killed, maimed or seriously injured because of this prank, then I may well feel different about it, but that isn't what happened.