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WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. (AP) — Police say some students will face charges after students at western Pennsylvania high school shared some gummy candies laced with the active ingredient in marijuana.
West Mifflin police say the candies first described as gummy bears were actually a candy known as “Kushy Punch.”
Police say all the student at West Mifflin High School who purchased or ate the candy knew what it contained.
School district superintendent Daniel Castagna (kah-STAN’-yah) tells WTAE-TV that one student taken to a hospital after eating the candy on Tuesday is fine.
Parents have been notified and were cooperating with school officials and police.
The students involved will face school discipline and police say at least some of them will faces drug possession charges in juvenile court once lab tests on the candy are complete.