04-18-2014, 01:30 PM
Spring Break Death Attributed to Marijuana Consumption
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Levy Thamba Pongi -19 ^ fell to his death last month from the 4th story balcony of a Holiday Inn in northeast Denver. He was a Wyoming college student visiting the Mile High City on spring break fell to his death after eating weed cookies, the Denver medical examiner’s office says.
Thamba and three friends were in Denver for spring break and one of them purchased some weed cookies from a legal supplier. After ingesting the cookies, one of friends got kind of sick, while the other two didn’t have any problems.
Thamba however became very agitated and upset and starting pulling items off the walls. His friends attempted to calm him down and were temporarily successful, but then Thamba jumped out of bed and went outside the hotel room. Thamba ran out onto the balcony and the lept over the railing to his death.
While the coroner’s office is calling his death an accident, the report released on Wednesday says a ‘significant condition’ during his death was ‘marijuana intoxication.’
One of his friends told investigators it may have been his first time using the drug - the only one toxicology tests found in his system. All three friends said they did not purchase or take any other drugs during their stay.
The marijuana concentration in Pongi's blood was 7.2 nanograms of active THC per milliliter of blood. Colorado law says juries can assume someone is driving while impaired if their blood contains more than 5 nanograms per milliliter.
In the days that followed the death of Pongi, Denver police confiscated the remaining cookies from the pot shop to test their levels of THC. The wrapper of the cookies bought by the students said each contained 65 mg of THC for 6 1⁄2 servings. Tests showed the cookies were within the required THC limits, police said.
Refs:
http://getwritegossip.com/2014/04/03/mar...d-cookies/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-denver-d...juana-use/
Levy Thamba Pongi -19 ^ fell to his death last month from the 4th story balcony of a Holiday Inn in northeast Denver. He was a Wyoming college student visiting the Mile High City on spring break fell to his death after eating weed cookies, the Denver medical examiner’s office says.
Thamba and three friends were in Denver for spring break and one of them purchased some weed cookies from a legal supplier. After ingesting the cookies, one of friends got kind of sick, while the other two didn’t have any problems.
Thamba however became very agitated and upset and starting pulling items off the walls. His friends attempted to calm him down and were temporarily successful, but then Thamba jumped out of bed and went outside the hotel room. Thamba ran out onto the balcony and the lept over the railing to his death.
While the coroner’s office is calling his death an accident, the report released on Wednesday says a ‘significant condition’ during his death was ‘marijuana intoxication.’
One of his friends told investigators it may have been his first time using the drug - the only one toxicology tests found in his system. All three friends said they did not purchase or take any other drugs during their stay.
The marijuana concentration in Pongi's blood was 7.2 nanograms of active THC per milliliter of blood. Colorado law says juries can assume someone is driving while impaired if their blood contains more than 5 nanograms per milliliter.
In the days that followed the death of Pongi, Denver police confiscated the remaining cookies from the pot shop to test their levels of THC. The wrapper of the cookies bought by the students said each contained 65 mg of THC for 6 1⁄2 servings. Tests showed the cookies were within the required THC limits, police said.
Refs:
http://getwritegossip.com/2014/04/03/mar...d-cookies/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-denver-d...juana-use/