A 9-year-old student in New Mexico gave fellow students gummies – only to realize later they were not ordinary candies. The candies apparently had been laced with tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the chemical responsible for how marijuana affects the brain, and were being used by the student’s parents as medical marijuana. Kristi Del Curto, dean of elementary students at the Albuquerque School of Excellence, told the Albuquerque Journal the fifth-grader brought the box of gummies she found at home and shared with friends at the school cafeteria one morning. “She thought she was sharing candy, and if you saw the picture on the box, it did look like candy,” Del Curto told the newspaper. The student later felt dizzy during class and was sent to the school nurse.