Multiple Desmond Middle School students fall ill after eating candy believed to be laced with THC

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Madera Unified says aggregate Desmond Middle School students fell sick Tuesday aft eating candy laced with what's believed to beryllium THC, the psychoactive constituent successful marijuana.

In a quality release, the territory said a pupil handed retired what appeared to beryllium "harmless candy successful agleam colors."

The students who ate the candy became precise intoxicated and showed signs of a wellness crisis.

The territory says a afloat probe is underway to underway to find the grade of the organisation and students volition beryllium held accountable.

"Any idiosyncratic merchantability of food, candy, oregon drinks is forbidden successful our schools and immoderate benignant of narcotic organisation is an expellable and arrestable offense," Madera Unified said.