Two-year-old girl who was acting 'odd' after eating cookie tests positive for marijuana | Mail Online
- Mother Aida Hernandez told police she found her two-year-old daughter eating a cookie out front of their apartment building in Longmont, Colorado
- When the girl started acting strangely she was taken to hospital and tested positive for THC
- Police say they are investigating but believe the family's story
- Incident comes the day before Colorado decriminalized marijuana, with adults 21 and over allowed to be in possession of one ounce of the drug
- Edible marijuana products, such as cookies, brownies, and suckers, are regulated in the same way as free-standing marijuana, in that they are subject to weight restrictions and are not to be consumed in public
PUBLISHED: 11:25 EST, 3 January 2014 | UPDATED: 11:25 EST, 3 January 2014
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Police are investigating how a two-year-old Colorado girl who spent New Years Eve in hospital came to test positive for THC, the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.
The incident started on Tuesday when Aida Hernandez stumbled upon her daughter eating a cookie left sitting in the front yard of an apartment complex in Longmont.
Hernandez told police she instructed the toddler to stop and throw the random sweet back in the garden.
This two-year-old girl (right, pictured with her sister) spent New Years Eve in hospital after eating a cookie that was placed with marijuana, police believe
Aida Hernandez noticed her daughter was acting strangely 'about half an hour' after finding her eating a random cookie out the front of their apartment block
Scene: Police are investigating the incident, but say they not found any reason to discredit the story provided to them by the family
Police say the two-year-old girl (right) has now fully recovered
The pair then went on a trip to the grocery store, when the mom realized something was wrong with her little girl.
'She was sleepy, she was opening and closing her eyes, and she couldn’t walk very well,' Hernandez told FOX31 Denver.
A toxicology test was performed and her urine tested positive for THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.
The incident occurred the day before Colorado ended prohibition laws on Marijuana.
As of January 1, adults 21 and over are able to buy the drug at dispensaries across the state, allowing people to smoke and eat weed in the privacy of their homes.
The toddler spent the night in hospital recovering and returned home on Wednesday.
Marijuana is now legally sold in a variety of forms - from free-packaged to joints and edibles - as part of a new government experiment in regulating the drug like alcohol
Edible marijuana products, such as suckers (pictured), are regulated under new Colorado drug the same way as free-standing marijuana is, in terms of how much each adult is allowed in weight
Since marijuana sales started in Colorado, the most typical way to buy the drug is on its own, however joints and edibles are also available
Cmdr. Jeff Satur said a search of the family's home failed to turn up anything.
Hernandez is also being tested for THC.
'At this point we are believing the family,' Satur said.
Police are working with social service workers on the case.
There is another child in the home who was unharmed.