BILLINGS – Two Billings West Excessive College college students have been taken to the hospital and a 3rd was despatched house with a guardian after the scholars reportedly overdosed on a substance generally known as “Dab.”
Billings police Lt. Matt Lennick mentioned in a press launch that college useful resource officers responded at about 8:21 a.m. Wednesday to a grievance of three 14-year-old male college students overdosing after ingesting a substance.
Two of the scholars have been transported by medical crews to the hospital for remedy and the third was launched to a guardian, Lennick mentioned. Their names and circumstances weren’t launched.
Billings Public Colleges Superintendent Greg Upham is anxious and is looking on all dad and mom to speak with their kids.
“It is advisable to perceive what this stage of THC (the lively ingredient in marijuana), and what the legalization of marijuana is all about for our children,” Upham mentioned.
Whereas police mentioned three children overdosed, Upham instructed MTN Information that 5 college students whole have been “beneath the affect” on the time.
The preliminary investigation exhibits the scholars had ingested Dab, which Lennick described within the press launch as “a concentrated type of hashish with a excessive stage of THC.”
“Right now, there is no such thing as a indication that some other sort of medication have been used or current throughout the incident,” Lennick mentioned.
West Excessive freshman Khloe Schmidt mentioned she was not stunned to be taught college students have been utilizing medication however was stunned to be taught that they overdosed.
“On the level the place it is like regular to listen to about it,” Schmidt mentioned, “it’s odd to listen to that somebody was overdosing on weed. I’m like, ‘what?’ That doesn’t actually appear regular.”
The police division and the varsity district are working collectively, Lennick mentioned, to analyze the distribution of Dabs, the press launch states.
Upham mentioned all college students concerned are doing “okay” and that what’s necessary is “on the finish of the day it’s about security for our children.”
