KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Police have referred to as on an unidentified vendor to report back to them as investigations proceed into an incident that resulted in a number of college students being rushed to the St Ann’s Bay Hospital on the north coast of the island after consuming sweets laced with THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), a compound present in marijuana.
Senior Superintendent of Police Dwight Powell, the commanding officer for St. Ann, confirmed that the seller who offered the sweets to the scholars exterior the college’s perimeter fence is unknown to them.
“It’s the first time we’re advised that he visited the college compound,” Powell mentioned in an announcement late on Monday.
He mentioned the male vendor is being requested to report back to the police, and anybody with data that may determine him or his whereabouts is being requested to name the St Ann police or any of the Jamaica Constabulary Pressure’s confidential traces.
Powell mentioned the matter is being handled with the strictest urgency, and a staff has been dispatched to the hospital and the college “the place we’re gathering data round this incident.”
Ocho Rios Main Faculty Principal Suzette Barnes-Wilson mentioned 60 college students had been taken to the hospital on Monday after the lone vendor, unknown to the scholars, got here by and offered a product to them.
She mentioned the scholars began to indicate signs with some vomiting, dizziness, and blacking out.
The varsity mentioned that the Ministry of Training, the police, and the Ocho Rios Well being Centre had been contacted, and the youngsters had been taken to hospital.
Media stories mentioned that the colourful bundle containing the sweets is embellished with the title ‘Full Throttle Bitter Belts.’ and that it has ten servings of the sweets with the recommendation that it needs to be stored out of attain of youngsters and is “not supposed to be used by anybody beneath 21 years of age.
President of the Jamaica Lecturers’ Affiliation (JTA), Leighton Johnson, mentioned the regulation is obvious on merchandising and these merchandise being obtainable to minors.
“I believe we simply must get again to the purpose the place we implement the regulation because it pertains to using marijuana,” he advised the Observer newspaper.
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