Posted on 08/08/2016 4:17:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The patients taken to the hospital ranged in age from 6 to 18.
The gummy rings that sickened 19 people - including a 6-year-old - at quinceañera in the Mission District were laced with pot, the San Francisco Public Health Department announced Monday, after a dozen patients tested positive for the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.
Spokeswoman Rachel Kagan said that the final lab tests on the gummy rings have not yet come back yet from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. But she said that 12 of the 19 people hospitalized after the party at the Women's Building on 18th Street had THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, in their systems.
All of the 19 patients were discharged by Monday morning, officials added. The patients ranged in age from 6 to 18, doctors said. It's unclear if the birthday girl was a patient or not.
Dr. Tomas Aragon said they suffered from rapid heart rates, high blood pressure, dilated pupils, dizziness, light-headedness, nausea, lethargy and confusion.
He and others are now trying to figure out how the candies got to the party, catered by an Oakland company. “The question remains, where did the candies come from?” said Aragon. “We are working with the catering company and our colleagues in Alameda to find out.” It's also quite possible a guest brought the candies to the party.
Aragon urged people to be very careful with "edibles," especially when the drugs are contained in bright-colored candies and passed around at family parties where young children and teenagers are in attendance.
“A situation like this, where they were consumed by unsuspecting people, and many children, is greatly concerning,” Aragon said.
Paramedics and firefighters raced to the quinceañera in San Francisco on Saturday night, where a 15-year-old girl was feted - a major rite of passage in the Latino community.
Security guard Raul Hernandez recalled how the party got chaotic and people got violently ill. He called 911 and recounted how scary it was. Some guests left foaming at the mouth.
"It was just one after another and another," Hernandez said. "A gentleman was holding his chest. The young lady, she couldn’t talk and was gasping for air."
But it is a victimless drug.
Today’s gummy rings are not the kind you
used to get from dealers, they are mucho wowiee.
Nope, not like the old Mexican dirt rings we used to get.
What the hell is a quinceanera? Hell, another “Latino” damn thing.
Anyway, sorry for the children.
And I thought pot was great for everything.
It wasn’t the pot it was the filler added for thriller that did it.
Lightweights.
It’s a Mexican sweet sixteen party, except they do it at 15 (”quince”).
Congratulations, you win the "non sequitur of the week" award...
Nothing like a good drunken Mexican local blowout.
They grow up so fast.
How is that a non-sequitur?
Because it does not follow from what preceded it.
It's like saying "aspirin is a victimless drug" or "alcohol is a victimless drug" when a child ingests one or the other.
It's just taking a cheap shot at the "drug" in question, IMHO.
In any event, Vote Trump!
“Higher blood pressure? There must have been something more than pot in it.”
Not necessarily. Children and adults who start stressing out because their whole world is changing and they don’t know why, would very likely have elevated PB due to extreem stress.
Nailed it.
Your very brain makes cannabinoids. Occifur arrest that man, and seize his brain as evidence!
Paranoia is one symptom.If you know your stoned is one thing but if you don’t have any idea what’s going on you would probably panic which could easily raise your BP.
Just keep it away from from the kids.
If adults want to indulge I have no problem with it.
My childhood use was not a positive; quite the opposite.
You guys could be right. The psychological reaction would have to overcome the physical action of the THC on the body though.
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