The Hanover Collaboration

These little guys might look like fun, but sources say they can be deadly to “smaller children”.

Oh, wait. There’s a correction to that article. Or rather, one has already been made. It seems these “Greenades” would lead to “serious effects” in small children, not death. Apparently, the guys at Narcanon Arrowhead forgot to change the byline. I wonder why an addiction counseling service would overstate the severity of a drug story?

I wonder also what they mean by serious effects? They say each gumball contained 1g of “high grade” cannabis. Let’s assume that means a ludicrous potency of 25% THC, or roughly five times the average concentration. Taking the LD50 from Wikipedia and applying it to a 30-pound toddler, we find that a reasonable leathal dose would require at least 40 gumballs.

Seeing as the three students charged in connection with this case had only two gumballs on hand, I’d imagine the most serious effects any l’il Hunter-S-in-Oshkosh would encounter is a gnarly case of the munchies. In fact, for any human bigger than a newborn (who wouldn’t have the the teeth to chew them, nor the motor function to bring them to their mouth), two gumballs’ worth is nowhere near a life-threatening dose.