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The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report is usually about as interesting as its name suggests. But an item in this week’s report caught our eye:

Inadvertent Ingestion of Marijuana — Los Angeles, California, 2009

Apparently, a few months back, a pre-school teacher bought some brownies from a sidewalk vendor selling them “for a church fundraiser,” according to the MMWR. She put them out in a break room at the school. Several people later “reported that the brownies had a medicine-like aftertaste or smell; however, all … affected persons ate an entire brownie.”

A few hours later, one of the teachers started looking drowsy and complaining of dizziness and “tingling of the face, forehead, arms, and hands,” the report says.

The pre-school director contacted the head pastor of the church, who said there hadn’t been any church fundraiser. The pastor called the cops. After a bit of investigating, the cops called in the public-health department.

In the final tally, investigators concluded six adults inadvertently ate pot brownies. Two sought medical attention at an urgent-care center. One of them was a breast-feeding mother.

The report notes that this sort of thing has happened before, and reminds readers that the findings “underscore the need to consider marijuana as a potential contaminant during foodborne illness investigations.”

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Health Officials: Pre-School Teachers Ate Pot Brownies