Crestmead dad fined in Brisbane Supreme Court after daughters eat marijuana cookie

A six-year-old girl who was “stoned” said she felt like she was going to die after eating a marijuana cookie she and her two-year-old sister found in their dad’s fridge.

A six-year-old girl said she felt like she was “going to die” after eating a marijuana cookie she and her two-year-old sister found in their dad’s fridge.

A 34-year-old Crestmead man faced the Brisbane Supreme Court on Tuesday, two years on from the incident.

The man, who cannot be named to protect his children’s identities, pleaded guilty to unlawfully possessing marijuana.

His daughters, then aged 6 and 2, were having a sleepover at his Crestmead house on January 18, 2020 when the man went outside for a cigarette and came back in to find his eldest daughter eating a marijuana cookie.

The man had earlier been given five cookies but had just half of one left in his fridge at the time, which his two-year-old daughter found, the court heard.

The two-year-old girl took a small bite of the cookie before the six-year-old ate the rest of it.

When he came back inside the father found the girl finishing the cookie and said he could have stopped her from eating the rest of it but did not want to panic her or make her think she did anything wrong.

He said the girl was “stoned” and she became moody with red, glassy eyes, the court heard.

The father called his friend and said “I think I f---ed this up,”

The court heard the six-year-old started having mood swings and was going back and forth between being happy to paranoid and confused.

She laid down and said she felt like the cookie had messed with her brain.

Her dad called his mother and the girls’ mother to tell them what happened, and the girl said to her mother “Mummy, I want to come home. I feel like I’m going to die”.

Justice Elizabeth Wilson said the father described the girl as looking “stoned” and that he looked after her for the night and said she felt fine in the morning.

The court heard the father had forgotten the cookie was still in his fridge.

Two days later the girls’ mother reported the incident to police, and she also took the children to a doctor for tests, and no drugs were found in their systems.

Defence barrister Lachlan Ygoa-McKeown said the incident had been the “wake up call” the man needed.

He said the father had entered an early plea, co-operated with police, and had immediately called people including the girls’ mother after he realised what happened.

Justice Wilson fined the man $400 and no conviction was recorded.