A raw video from a mom in the hospital is blowing up on X right now. She’s filming her 9-year-old son hooked up to monitors and an IV after he apparently ate a whole pack of THC gummies and hit a vape pen that another kid gave him at school.
The post from @LASHYBILLS already has millions of views in just a few hours. It’s an 8-minute-and-45-second clip pieced together like a collage, showing the little boy in a hospital gown, looking out of it moving slow, eyes glazed or closed, not really responding much. His mom, wearing a red and black head wrap, is right there holding up a black-and-red vape pen and a pack of “Blue Razz” THC gummies while she talks straight to the camera. The room has those bright underwater-themed walls you see in kids’ hospitals.
A tweet from X.
She says another child at school passed him the stuff. He ate the entire pack, and it hit him hard and fast he couldn’t talk right or see clearly. She’s warning other parents about what this can do to a kid’s developing brain and how shocked she was at how quick it got bad. The original caption on X is pretty much:
“A mother reported that her 9-year-old son was given THC gummies and a vape at school. He ate the entire pack, resulting in severe symptoms that have left him unable to talk or see.”
THC gummies are edibles, so they pack a stronger, longer punch than smoking or vaping. In little kids, it can cause what’s called “greening out” they get super disoriented, sluggish, have trouble speaking or focusing, heart racing, maybe throwing up. Their brains are still growing, so it hits way harder. Usually they recover with fluids, monitoring, and time in the hospital, but it looks terrifying while it’s happening. Doctors say there’s no solid proof that a one-time THC exposure like this causes permanent problems with speech or vision those kinds of claims go further than what we normally see in these cases.
This isn’t the first time something like this has popped up. Back in 2023, a 9-year-old in Escondido, California, ended up in the hospital after a classmate gave him THC gummies at North Broadway Elementary four third-graders got sick that day. There have been similar reports in other states too, where kids share these candy-looking edibles on campus and someone ends up in the ER. Poison control numbers back it up: cases of young kids getting into cannabis products shot up big time as edibles became more common.
These videos gain popularity instantly on X since they hit the heart of every parent’s worst fears about their children being exposed to dangerous drugs at school without any parental supervision. The reason for the popularity of this video lies in its realism and the maternal warning that comes with it. Some people empathize with the child who appears in the video while others criticize the mother for shooting the video without paying attention to her son. There are other people who criticize the schools for not making enough effort.
However, one must understand that THC candies look identical to regular candies in terms of appearance and taste, which makes them easily exchangeable among children. Nonetheless, in terms of this specific case, it remains uncertain whether the video accurately depicts the story or not. At present, there are no details about the school’s location and name and no other official information confirming the validity of the report.
Parents and schools are still arguing over how to handle this in a world where weed is more legal and available than ever.
