Special education teacher allegedly gave students pot brownies, but the evidence was eaten
An Atlanta special education teacher won’t face criminal charges after allegedly sharing pot-laced brownies at school because the evidence was eaten, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Two students and an adult fell ill after eating the brownies and were taken to the hospital where they were treated and released. The news outlet reported that days after the incident, which occurred on Nov. 30, the teacher resigned from his job at South Atlanta High School, citing “medical concerns.” Just this week, the school board formally accepted his resignation.
But now, Atlanta Public Schools police are unable to charge the teacher, who had been with the district since 2012, due to insufficient evidence, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Despite the criminal investigation not proceeding, the school district’s human resources department is still investigating.
In a written statement, the unnamed teacher said he brought leftovers from his Thanksgiving dessert, which included a coconut cake and the brownies, to share with his students. After eating the brownies, two students complained to another teacher that they were not feeling well. They had blurry eyes, and another was resting his head on a computer, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported.
A sign language interpreter who works in an algebra classroom also ate a brownie, which the special education teacher said to have baked himself.
“Within a few minutes, I felt that I was coming under the influence of something that had been in the brownie,” the sign language interpreter wrote in a statement.
The interpreter claimed to have experienced violent vomiting, hallucinations, a rapid heart rate, a loss of muscle control, difficulty standing and walking, and “an inability to distinguish between what was actually happening and what I imagined was happening,” according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The interpreter was driven home and slept until morning. The next Monday, he visited his physician who drug-screened his urine. It was positive for marijuana.
According to the special education teacher’s statement, he also ate a brownie and experienced only a sugar high.
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