Parsley-pot ruse gets kids suspended
Daytona Beach News-Journal, FL
Staff Report
Last update: November 29, 2005
PALM COAST -- Two Flagler County elementary school pupils were arrested last week after pretending a plastic bag of parsley was marijuana.
An arrest report by Cpl. Don Apperson, a school resource deputy with the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, said the two girls, each 10-year-old pupils at Old Kings Elementary School, were showing classmates a plastic bag with a green leafy substance they said was marijuana.
School officials learned of the alleged bag of marijuana and called the girls into a conference with their parents. The girls admitted they did not have marijuana and said that the bag of parsley, which they brought to school in their book bags, was a prank, the report said.
The girls were charged under a state law that makes it a crime to claim that a substance is a drug -- whether or not the item is intended for sale or distribution, according to Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Debra Johnson. They were taken to the Flagler County Inmate Facility and later released to their parents.
The girls were also suspended from school and ordered to attend drug awareness classes.
Similar laws in Alabama:
Imitation Controlled Substances in Alabama Code
Defined
Prohibited
Intent
Staff Report
Last update: November 29, 2005
PALM COAST -- Two Flagler County elementary school pupils were arrested last week after pretending a plastic bag of parsley was marijuana.
An arrest report by Cpl. Don Apperson, a school resource deputy with the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, said the two girls, each 10-year-old pupils at Old Kings Elementary School, were showing classmates a plastic bag with a green leafy substance they said was marijuana.
School officials learned of the alleged bag of marijuana and called the girls into a conference with their parents. The girls admitted they did not have marijuana and said that the bag of parsley, which they brought to school in their book bags, was a prank, the report said.
The girls were charged under a state law that makes it a crime to claim that a substance is a drug -- whether or not the item is intended for sale or distribution, according to Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Debra Johnson. They were taken to the Flagler County Inmate Facility and later released to their parents.
The girls were also suspended from school and ordered to attend drug awareness classes.
Similar laws in Alabama:
Imitation Controlled Substances in Alabama Code
Defined
Prohibited
Intent
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