Overview
- The child collapsed after eating homemade biscuits at his grandparents’ home in the Arezzo area and was treated at San Donato hospital, where tests found cannabinoids in blood and urine.
- Hospital police alerted investigators, who searched the family property and found about twenty similar biscuits in a freezer.
- Officers also uncovered a covert cannabis grow in an outbuilding with lamps, ventilators and chemicals, plus more than half a kilogram of prepared leaves.
- The uncle faces counts of possession, cultivation and production of drugs as well as negligent injury in relation to the child’s intoxication.
- A judge validated the arrest and ordered release without precautionary measures pending toxicology that must confirm the intoxicating effect of the plants and biscuits, and the child is reported to be improving.