10-year-old Stratford child hospitalized after unknowingly eating weed gummy

Edible marijuana samples are set aside for evaluation at Cannalysis, a cannabis testing laboratory, in Santa Ana, Calif. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Chris Carlson

A 10-year-old child from Stratford was hospitalized on Monday as a result of eating a gummy that turned out to be an edible containing THC.

Stratford Police said according to video surveillance, the child had just arrived at their after-school program at Pyramid Recreation Centre in St. Mary’s when they found a candy that looked like a normal gummy on the floor and ate it.

The child then became sick, with the after-school program contacting the child’s parents, who then took the child to a hospital.

It was confirmed that THC did present in the child’s bloodstream, which was then treated, leading to the child’s release.