DENVER (KDVR) — The parents of two 12-year-old Colorado students are suing a language arts teacher, accusing her of baking and distributing cannabis-laced brownies to the two children.
Sharon Wilson, a sixth grade language arts teacher at Denver’s Kepner Beacon Middle School, is accused in a civil lawsuit of placing “her students in direct danger after she personally baked and distributed home-made brownies laced with tetrahydrocannabinol,” or THC, the psychoactive ingredient of cannabis.
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The lawsuit alleges that Wilson held a writing contest for her sixth grade class and, instead of providing a “typical prize,” she gave them the laced brownies on June 4, 2024. The lawsuit says that the teacher admitted to “making the brownies for” the two minors.
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The lawsuit alleges the two children ate the brownies and soon thereafter, “began to feel sick and strange with symptoms including: difficulty walking, difficulty focusing, and overall feeling like something was happening to their bodies that they did not understand.”
Both students required help making it out to their parents’ vehicles at the end of the day, the complaint alleges. The lawsuit states that one of the children’s mothers first thought her child had eaten peanuts, resulting in an allergic reaction, and texted Wilson to get more information…