Video Appears to Show Brothers, 2 and 5, Smoking Pot

[Each Hit]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/04/pot.kids/index.html

Video Appears to Show Brothers, 2 and 5, Smoking Pot


The video shows a child (face obscured to protect his identity)
apparently smoking a marijuana cigarette.


WATAUGA, Texas (CNN) -- Police in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, said a videotape found in a search for stolen goods appears to show two teenagers persuading a 2-year-old boy and his 5-year-old brother to smoke marijuana.

Third-degree felony charges have been filed against the teenagers.

"I have never seen anything like this quite so disturbing," said Bruce Ure, director of public safety for the Watauga Police Department. "Our children count on us to protect them; these individuals did everything but protect these children."

The incident began unfolding February 22, when the Fort Worth Police Department executed a search warrant to look for stolen goods in the apartment of 17-year-old Demetris McCoy, the unemployed uncle of the two children, and 18-year-old Vanswan Polty, Ure said.

Among the items recovered was camera equipment, Ure said. Upon looking at one of the tapes, investigators came across "a session where these two males were providing marijuana" to the youngsters, he said. "They were essentially trying to get them high, laughing. The children are stumbling, falling around."

Ure said it appeared that the videotaped scene was not the boys' first such session.

The 2-year-old was holding what appeared to be a marijuana cigarette "like he's done it before," Ure said. "He's inhaling."

The boys' mother, McCoy's sister, has told police she was sleeping in the back bedroom during the incident. She has not been charged, Ure said.

Nor has another minor, who served as the cameraman, Ure said.

In the video, a man puts a cigarette into the toddler's mouth. The other boy is seen smoking without prompting.

The children have been in the custody of Child Protective Services, Ure said.

[Mezza]

That's really messed up....

[darawk]

I don't think it's so bad...parents regularly give their kids low doses of alcohol to help them sleep...this is no worse than that.

[Trebor]

In the video, a man puts a cigarette into the toddler's mouth. The other boy is seen smoking without prompting.

It's clearly promoting sharing at an early age!! Seriously though. Way to young!!

[AntiAimer]

If parents can give there kids speed at such young age....what's worse? Let's see the videos of many parents forceing there kids to take prescriptions.

[Riconoen {UGC}]

Kids are forced to take powerful amphetamines at that early of an age and nobody goes nuts over that.

[Powder_Reality]

While SWIM agrees that forcing kids to take ritalin, amphetamines, and antidepressants isn't right, that doesn't justify forcing kids to smoke marijuana.

SWIM believes that responsible adults should have the freedom to put any substance they want into their bodies. And by responsible adults, he means just that. Responsible 18+ adults that choose to consume these substances. Of course SWIM knows that most teenagers aren't going to restrain themselves from experimenting just because they aren't 18 years old yet. SWIM definately didn't let that hold him back when he was younger. But at least when SWIM was experimenting, it was his own choice. The kids in that video are 2 and 5 years old. They don't even know what they're doing.

SWIM hopes that those irresponsible idiots who were making the kids smoke get everything they have coming to them.

[Jigga0o7]

thats fucked up...

[Nagognog2]

I knew some people who, as kids, their parents ordered them to take codeine whenever the parents had guests over. They wanted their "little darlings" to be well-behaved and docile around company. The father was a doctor with ready access to drugs. The mother was born and raised in Nazi Germany. The house had swastika's on the furniture. Charming lady.

Daddy-Doctor later lost his medical license for unrelated actions.

[Sklander]

SWIM thinks its fucked up to force anyone to smoke marijuana...

However, SWIM knows a guy who has a young boy of about three years old and the young kid smokes when he wants to smoke. His daddy is very open-minded and believes the kid should start making his own decisions at an early age.

As mentioned, this society pops kids up on all kinds of different amphetamines and no one bats an eye. While FORCING a kid to smoke is fucked up, there is nothing wrong with the kid smoking when he wants, in SWIM's opinion.

[Nature Boy]

On FOX News they recommended the maximum sentence of ten years for the two defendants. Although they were clearly in the wrong, a sentence like that would be insane. This is more like a stupid prank than a serious crime.

[csharpprogrammer]

SWIM knows of a child(under 6yrs) who is treated like that. The baby smokes weed and drinks liquor. SWIM wants DHS to take the kid so bad!

[Nagognog2]

Originally Posted by Nature Boy

On FOX News they recommended the maximum sentence of ten years for the two defendants. Although they were clearly in the wrong, a sentence like that would be insane. This is more like a stupid prank than a serious crime.

Please get it through the skull that anytime you hear/see the words FOX News - an alarm-bell should go off. They should be forced to change their name to Imperialist Propaganda Noise of Devout Fascism. Only complete idiots in the USA take them as being a serious news organization. And I'm pleased to say - their ratings are falling like a brick.

[Riconoen {UGC}]

I saw Sean Hannity nearly busting a nut over this. I think some action should be taken, nobody should be forced to do drugs 5 or 50 IMO, but a ten year sentance is insanity.

[mouthwater]

These kids are dumb enough they might even be able to pull off an insanity plea. Stick 'em in a nuthouse with Billy Bibbit and Chief Broom...

On second thought, even the greats in the Cuckoo's Nest wouldn't have been stupid enough to feed little kids dope. A 10 year sentence might be a little excessive, but just barely. They're probably better off making license plates and picking up cigarette butts on the side of the highway than wandering the streets and spending all day on Myspace and writing their amateurish commentary about how "God is dead" in their blog and instant messaging about how the MAN is trying to keep them from scoring sweet drugs like rohypnol so they can fuck that girl next door before throwing toilet paper in one of the underclassman's yard.

Fuck 'em. Why didn't anyone ever teach them that a good book is sometimes better than blunt?

[Trebor]

Here here! And the Daily Mail should be burnt. Tory papaer. Maggie Thatchwer sexiest woman alive my ass!