Weed Students Ingested Highly Dangerous, Even Deadly - KFSM

It was just after lunch time, when five Fayetteville High School students began showing classic symptoms that come after ingesting jimson weed.

[jeff]

What a stupid thing to do! Eat a weed that is known to be toxic. Maybe this is natures way of weeding out the idiots.

[Linda]

Where did the kids get the poison weed? Was is growing at the school? If the kids found it at the school I think the school should bear some responsibility. Most of us have experimented with some sort of intoxicant at one time or another and these kids were probable just being kids. Whatever policy the school has for this sort of thing should be followed...but if the weed was found growing at the school somebody was not doing their job and action should be taken in this area also. We are all glad the kids are ok and hopefully this incident will discourage them from future drug experimentations.

[maxine]

these kids need to be punished in some way. what were the thinking? you dont just do things like that. they are very lucky they are still alive, thank GOD he waa there with them.

[Bruce]

Do we need to waste our tax dollars educating kids this stupid. Some children need to be left behind

[Lorene]

This is known to cause colic in cows and horses and if not treated, they could die. Guess these kids did not know what they were fooling around with, but if they are in high school, the, they are old enough to know better than to go eating something without knowing what it is. I hope this is a lesson well learned.