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Student Brings Marijuana Edible To Bridgeport Elementary School

Law enforcement and staff in the Saugus Union School District, (SUSD) are investigating after a child brought a marijuana edible to a Santa Clarita school two weeks ago.   

On Tuesday, Sept. 13, a student brought an edible to Bridgeport Elementary School, and parents originally believed it  was laced with fentanyl. 

However, it was later determined the edible was laced with marijuana. 

“We were made aware of an isolated incident, that occurred approximately two weeks ago, where a child brought a marijuana gummy from their home,” said Michelle Barries, assistant superintendent for the SUSD. “A student divided the gummy around lunch time and shared a portion of it with four students, two of the students ingested a portion. Other students in the classroom brought the issue to the attention of their teacher, which was then immediately followed up by school administration.” 

Law enforcement was also immediately notified of the situation and launched their own investigation.   

One of student’s parents decided to have their child medically evaluated but no child required hospitalization due to ingesting the gummy.

Cary Quashen, of Action Drug Rehab, is encouraging parents that use edibles to store them away in a place not accessible to young children, especially now that edibles resemble candy. 

While Narcan is not going to help with marijuana, Quashen has been a strong advocate for getting the life saving medicine on to all school campuses with the uptick in Fentanyl related overdoses.

“When it comes to THC, Narcan will have no effect, but this is one more example of what could happen,” Quashen said. “What if one of the kids grabbed a pill that is laced with Fentanyl? If someone goes into an overdose we have minutes or seconds. Narcan needs to be at schools in multiple places.” 

Although marijuana is not a life-threatening drug, it could still put new users in the emergency room. 

Marijuana could result in kids having high levels of anxiety and becoming very paranoid, landing them in the emergency room at times, Quashen said.

In response to the student bringing an edible to campus, SUSD officials are set to have an assembly to discuss the dangers that narcotics pose. 

“To ensure we provide students with education and awareness of these sorts of drugs, edibles, candy, gum, etc, we also will be partnering with the LASD to provide assemblies on drug education and awareness for all our 5th and 6th graders at Bridgeport this week,” Barries said. “This incident shows the importance of preventing our children from having access to medications, drugs, etc in the home.” 

Despite drugs being brought on to Bridgeport Elementary school’s campus, Colleen Hawkins, the superintendent of the SUSD was pleased with how the students handled the situation. 

“Most importantly we are proud of the students who immediately brought this issue to the attention of their teacher. We are teaching our students that when they SEE SOMETHING they should SAY SOMETHING and this is what happened,” Hawkins said. “We are fortunate to have a supportive and collaborative partnership with our parent community and surrounding law enforcement agencies in addressing these and other issues.” 

As of the publication of this article, Sheriff’s officials have not said if any arrests have been made or will be made.


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Student Brings Marijuana Edible To Bridgeport Elementary School

10 comments

  1. Someone should go to jail.

  2. A couple of days in the slammer seems about right for both parents. That is if the child has two parents. This certainly could have ended much worse than it did.

  3. Remember the days when a parent would be arrested for this? Ahh the good old days

  4. What’s the beef here? She didn’t bring enough for the whole class?

  5. “Encourages” parents to keep their edibles out of reach of children. Responsible parents don’t go drugs

    We live in a stupid world where people think drugs are on.

    • I may need to remind you marijuana is legal medicinally as well as recreationally in California. Yes, kids taking edibles on purpose or by accident is not good, however, alcohol, prescription drugs and marijuana is not usually locked up in one’s home. There are many responsible people, parents, old and young adults who use marijuana.

  6. Fentanyl is not pot. Zero overdoses on pot, ever. Zero Fentanyl in gummies purchased at legal regulated pot stores. Yes, way too young for that stuff, but c’mon they split a gummy four ways.

  7. My child is at this school and in the classroom of the student who did this. The administration acted on this really slow. Parents were not notified until their own kids brought this forward. The student was back in school right away.

  8. Narcotics assembly for THC gummy. Are we back in the 1950s? Parents lock up your gummies like you do your alcohol.

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