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Teenager jumped out window after mother fed him pot brownie – police
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A Colorado woman was arrested after feeding a marijuana-laced brownie to her teenage son, who then jumped out of a third-storey apartment window and suffered serious injuries, according to police.
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Julieane Jablonski, 38, was booked on suspicion of providing marijuana to a minor and felony tampering with a witness, according to the Fort Collins police department.
Jablonski gave the pot brownie on 14 April to her 19-year-old son, Austin Essig, who then started acting strangely, with witnesses saying he ran toward the window and jumped out “without hesitation”, according to police.
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Police did not describe the exact injuries Essig suffered in the three-storey fall but said he was seriously hurt.
Colorado voters in 2012 sanctioned recreational use of marijuana but only for those aged 21 and older. Voters in three other states and the District of Columbia have done the same but pot remains illegal under federal law.
Jablonski could not be reached for comment.
She appeared in court briefly on Thursday and the Larimer county district attorney’s office had formal charges pending against her, the Fort Collins Coloradoan reported on its website, citing court records.
Since Essig is over 18 Jablonski normally would have simply been given a misdemeanour citation but the witness tampering charge was a felony that prompted her arrest, said Fort Collins Deputy Police Chief Cory Christensen.
“She allegedly attempted to get other witnesses to change their stories,” Christensen said.
Jablonski was arrested on Wednesday, according to a police booking report.
It was the latest of several incidents of pot users harming themselves that authorities in Colorado have confronted since retail sales of the drug began in 2014.
In March 2014 college student Levi Thamba Pongi of the Republic of Congo leapt to his death from a Denver hotel after consuming a large amount of marijuana cookies, with the Denver medical examiner’s office listing “marijuana intoxication” as a contributing factor in his death.
Last month 22-year-old Luke Gregory Goodman shot himself dead in a Colorado ski resort town after witnesses said he ate a large amount of pot candies, the Summit county coroner said.
