Virginia Mother Charged With Murder After 4-Year-Old Son Dies From Eating THC Gummies
A mother in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, faces felony murder and child neglect charges after her 4-year-old son died from eating marijuana-infused gummies earlier this year.
Investigators said Dorothy Annette Clements didn't get help soon enough for her son, Tanner Clements, when he was found unresponsive on May 6 at a home they were both visiting.
Tanner Clements died two days later.
Dorothy Annette Clements told a police detective that her son ate half of a CBD gummy and that she called poison control and was assured that he'd be OK, according to search warrant documents.
But the detective said she found an empty THC gummy jar in the house and toxicology results showed Tanner Clements had extremely high levels of THC in his system, documents say. THC is the active ingredient in marijuana that gets people high.
An autopsy found that THC caused the boy's death.
Investigators said he might have survived had Dorothy Annette Clements gotten help for him sooner.
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There's also these, downkongd into oblivion, obviously.
https://old.reddit.com/r/trees/comments/y9sqcf/virginia_mother_charged_with_murder_after/
https://old.reddit.com/r/cannabis/comments/yanb84/virginia_mother_charged_with_murder_after/
https://old.reddit.com/r/weedstocks/comments/yb6bu3/virginia_mother_charged_with_murder_after/
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The cope is so ridiculous. "The fentanyl didn't kill him, his heart just gave up on him"
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If something doesn't kill you in thirty seconds it's clearly harmless
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Bring back lead pipes![:marseydramautist: :marseydramautist:](/e/marseydramautist.webp)
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R-slurred stoner science in those comments
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You have to smoke 70000 pounds of weed in five seconds to od its impossible![:marseysoyseethe: :marseysoyseethe:](/e/marseysoyseethe.webp)
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The kid proceeds to eat 90000 lbs of weed concentrated into a single pouch of fruit snacks.
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Jesus, why do you smell funny?
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Lots of really r-slurred comments about LD50
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I am not a drug addict therefore weed isn't a drug therefore the kid couldn't have ODed.
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https://www.theonion.com/fun-toy-banned-because-of-three-stupid-dead-kids-1819565691
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I can't believe the onion used to be funny and not this
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Pure smug soyjack essence
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*one stupid dead kid
As far as I can tell this is the first recorded fatal thc overdose in US history
All previous "THC overdoses" involved heroin or some shit in addition to weed
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It's just a plant bro
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Redditors are a plague
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It’s just a plant. It’s not even addictive.
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When your process for consuming marijuana resembles something you'd see in an alleyway behind 7-11, it's time for self-reflection.
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Not to mention they used to smoke the leaves but now it's the buds which are way more potent to begin with.
Plus it was probably black market gummies with ridiculous THC content.
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who the frick is they? super shitty weed contains leafs and stems ground up or pressed with the buds, but no sane person would say "yeah lets smoke just the super harsh non mind altering leaf of this weedflower for fun"
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The people he made up
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The 70s? Afaik originally it was only the leaves that were smoked, and the buds were cultivated later when they were lower in THC but i could be wrong becos decades of weed abuse made me![:marseygigaretard: :marseygigaretard:](/e/marseygigaretard.webp)
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They rolled or put in bricks what's called a sugar leaf near the bud that contains a mild amount of THC
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinsemilla
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The only people who ever smoked the leaves are posers who have never smoked before
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i mean, u just do much less of it.
i get stoned off vaping half a thimbles full of hydo ... whereas schwag weed from the back in day would take a whole blunt smoking it.
and on top of that, the older i get the less i do, it's weird. even if i'm daily.
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I prefer the mother rock![:marseywhelmed: :marseywhelmed:](/e/marseywhelmed.webp)
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Well, we've officially got the dosage down for what kills a 4 year old boy.
Let's find out the dosage to kill an adult now
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Its not 500 mg i can tell you that
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Try 32oz and report back.
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weed is actually a gate way drug for harder shit, so technically any amount is deadly![:marseytinfoil2: :marseytinfoil2:](/e/marseytinfoil2.webp)
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Nononono, there are ZERO people in that thread that mention their ever increasing tolerance and ABSOLUTELY NONE OF THEM will seek out harder drugs to get their kick back, no sir. It's ONLY a gateway when you have to buy it illegally and thusly meet people that FORCE their hard stuff on you!
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Eh, I don't like getting too high. Dabs are too much (effort, apparatus, high, etc) and I don't want to spend 60 an eighth of some crazy bud either.
I'm happy smoking a joint and playing music.![:marseyjamming: :marseyjamming:](/e/marseyjamming.webp)
Hard drugs are fun but benders lose their luster after a while... Or at least it did for me.
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Weed can be very harmful by itself. It can completely wreck someone's mental state and induce psicosis.
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why can't people just do normal weed if they wanna do that, you really DONT need "CRANKED UP TO 18 BILLION PERCENT POTENCY, THIS WEED WILL CAUSE YOU TO GO INTO CARDIAC ARREST GUARANTEED (super sour diesel flavor)" level shit
wait the other article says it was Delta 8? Oh darn imagine dying of Diet Weed, I changed my mind that kid was probably just WEAK
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b-b-b-but stoner movies told me its impossible to OD on weed!!
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You still can't since this wasn't weed.
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i mean, gummies are pretty recent. it is impossible to OD on smoking weed, u'd forget to smoke long before u OD'd
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I like weed but kids definitely shouldn't have access to it.
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sorry redditors like weed so if you dont make fun of it you're cringe bro
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Letting redditors dictate what you like positively or negatively is as cucked as I can imagine being.
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yeah, I keep all my edibles in a high cabinet above my stove. I don't even have any children but I sure as shit don't want a guest to bring theirs, forget about it, and they eat some.
This child was really killed by their parents being excessively incompetent. I wonder if they also left their child alone with kitchen knives.
Poor kid, though. Never stood a chance.
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i respect literal methheads more than weedcels, absolute shit people
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Stoners are r-slurred but theyve never tried to steal my catalytic converter
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you right
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And that’s a BAD thing![:#marseybluecheck: :#marseybluecheck:](/e/marseybluecheck.webp)
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High-tier r-slur take
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its like 0,00 vs 0,01
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yuropoor detected
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I can imagine worse ways to die. Still, poor kid![:marseysadge: :marseysadge:](/e/marseysadge.webp)
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I don't know, getting way too high isn't a good feeling, definitely not ODing on happy feelings and not caring. Hopefully it knocked him out cold before it killed him.
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It did, he was found unconscious and died two days later.
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If you take too much weed you'll feel paranoid/scared and moving around becomes difficult and heavy. This 4 year old probably had like 50 times more than you need to feel awful from weed, so it must've been terrible.
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These kind of slow deaths are a fricking nightmare. Same thing with dying stuck in a cave (last IH video
), I'm not that claustrophobic but not being able to move is a fear I don't think I can get over of.
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If you liked that here's another video about cave divers running out of oxygen 1 mile below the surface of the cave they were diving.
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My whole family even my grandparents watched the new IH video but I noped tf out of that![:marseyno: :marseyno:](/e/marseyno.webp)
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There are worse cave stories than that.
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Yeah getting that high on edibles is not a fun experience, must’ve been a frightening clown menagerie
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Weed is natural, therefore it was death by natural causes
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A child tragically dies due to his barefoot trailer-trash mom's negligence and reddit makes it about the fricking midterms.
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Lmao you gotta love how burgers are so obsessed with getting flavored vapes off the market because it supposedly markets to kids, but then here you have actual drugs in candy and thats totally ok.
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Vapes should be illegal not because they appeal to children, but because they appeal to vapers.
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Vapists*
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Massachusetts banned all flavored vapes and tobacco for this reason but there are billboards for Cookies dispensary that are just their logo over layers of chocolate chip cookies.
https://www.cookiesworcester.com/
What a fricking joke.
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I like how the mom called poison control, who said he'd be fine, then he just died. All over half a gummy? She's either lying or leaving stuff out.
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From the fact the detective found an empty gummy container, I would guess the poor kid ate the entire thing. I would know because I did the same thing when I was four with flintstone gummy vitamins. Four year olds will eat all of something in one go if they’re alone and it tastes sweet.
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True. I'd think the mom wouldn't be r-slurred enough to lie about the amount to save her own kid but she could have at least hidden the evidence or something.
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Probably didn’t lie, I think it’s more likely she’s just completely unaware of anything around her due to chronic THC brain rot. Murderer by unadulterated negligence
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She told them it was a CBD gummy, that's not the same thing as a THC gummy.
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I see now that Delta-8 is the cause of death but idk how that changes anything
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Yeah, that sounded a little sus to me. Sounds like little Kayden may have gotten into mommy's pill stash.
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It’s VA and a woman so you could safely assume Oxycontin and some kind of benzodiazepines.
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I'm not a druggie the frick is CBD and THC
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Cannabidiol, tetrahydrocannabinol.
Impossible to OD when smoked. Distilled in to edibles is a whole other story. Like chewing the coca plant versus snorting coke.
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THC is the psychoactive part, what gets you high. CBD is from the same plant but isn't psychoactive, some people take it for pain relief.
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Marijuana death tally when?
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I wonder if they said the same about covid. I fricking hate stoners and druggies so god darn much it's unreal.
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was he recently vaccinated?
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lmao this guy is fuming https://old.reddit.com/r/cannabis/comments/yanb84/virginia_mother_charged_with_murder_after/itc054a/
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So it's D8, which is unregulated and there have been problems with knock off pods with bad chemicals in them. I wonder if the kid was poisoned or if D8 has a lower LD50.
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Probably has antifreeze or fricking fentanyl in it tbh
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I think the D8 gummies also have a much higher content, because D8 is a shitty alternative to real THC so you need to eat way more of it to feel anything.
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I hate stoners and don’t frick with weed, but I’ve seen studies for LD50s of THC and that shit is like crazy high.
The terminology seems a bit off in the story, too. Kid ate a CBD gummy or a THC gummy?
Or the whole jar? Which shouldn’t be enough to kill the kid, anyway. I mean, it would be a horrifying experience, though.
The article has a link to the original FB post from the police department, good for drama because people are pearl-clutching on both sides.
Fat Virginia women have gone into full “won’t someone think of the children” mode, and disgusting stoners have gone into defense mode that someone attacked their favorite (and only) hobby.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article267654522.html
Eh, sounds like r-slur local government employees went “Oh well, kid has weed in his system, must’ve died from that!”
I mean, kid would have had to have eaten more than a pound of pure THC, even if they were small.
My guess is that there’s something else. Looks like she lied to poison control, maybe, and the detective found an empty jar of unspecified “THC gummies”—were they shady grey market gummies or some homemade shit? Did they have other substances?
Did the kid have preexisting conditions and the THC triggered a cardiac event or similar?
In any case, I’m not sure what TTT prosecutor decided to bring a case based on that investigation and conclusion about the kid’s death, because it should be easy to prove that she had no reasonable cause to believe that even ingesting an edible would cause death.
Waiting for someone to pull the actual indictment or report of investigation, bc I want to see what that reasoning was.
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Seems like the mom lied to poison control and said the kid ate half (whole?) of a CBD gummy, turns out the kid ate a whole jar of THC gummies, and maybe they were actually some knockoff Delta-8 shit too.
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I smoke weed and I will admit its a drug. As for the r-slurs saying its impossible to OD on weed all those stats are for adults not kids. So yeah a kid could easily die to this shit.
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People claim weeds not a drug? Why the definition of drug is anything that alters your brain chemistry if it wasn't a drug it wouldn't make you high.
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Snapshots:
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Sure is a lot of redditors in there struggling to grasp what the LD50 actually means and the fact that some people may be more susceptible to ODing than others
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Why isn’t this drug illegal again???
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Because it's top notch and more dead kids are a good thing.
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Boot butt Marine, doesn’t even want people to die. Smh
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You’ll get a boot in the face with that mouth
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lmao, type at me when you get a CAR.
(I’m fricking with you, dude)
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It’s almost as if children have a different tolerance to substances than adults do.
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Dude weed lmao
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When will people learn shooting up THC is not a joke and leads to deaths.![:marseyraging: :marseyraging:](/e/marseyraging.webp)
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Impossible. Marijuana doesn't have lethal dose.
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