MULBERRY, Fla. — Polk County Fire Rescue responded to Mulberry Middle School Thursday after several students suddenly became sick after they reportedly consumed THC laced gummies. 
 
 Five of the ill students were taken to the hospital and one was picked up by their parents. 
 
 A spokesperson with Polk County Schools tells us the students consumed gummy bears that contained THC. 
 
 The Sheriff's Office said a 12-year-old male student brought a pack of Green Hornet fruit punch gummies containing 100 mg of THC to school. The student shared them with his classmates during his 2nd-period gym class, around 10 a.m. 
 
 The student who brought the gummies to school told detectives that he didn't eat any of it. 
 
 One of the kids who consumed the candy told a faculty member. Detectives located the empty package in the trash. 
 
 The Polk County Sheriff says the students had a negative reaction to the THC laced gummy bears they ingested saying they reported stomach pains, nausea, dizziness, or a combination thereof. 
 
 "We have long been concerned about the dangers of marijuana-infused candy, and that it would get into the hands of, and poison, children. Here's an example of that." - Grady Judd, Sheriff 
 
 The 12-year-old is being charged with six felony counts of distribution of marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school, 1 felony count of possession of marijuana resin, and 1 count possession of paraphernalia. 
 
 According to the manufacturer based in California, there are 10 pieces of gummy candy in each package, each containing 10 mg of THC. All 100 mg were consumed by at least six (but possibly more) children, the sheriff's office says. 
 
 It is illegal to possess this package of gummies in the state of Florida. Investigators are still trying to figure out how the 12-year-old obtained the pack of gummies. 
 
 Polk County Public Schools sent the following message to parents on Thursday: ||||| The 12-year-old student that provided the THC-infused gummy candy that sent six students to the hospital faces seven felony charges and one misdemeanor charge. 
 
 MULBERRY — Six Mulberry Middle School students were taken to the hospital after ingesting most of a 100-milligram block of THC-infused gummy candies Thursday morning. 
 
 According to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, Leviticus Jones, 12, somehow came into possession of the Green Hornet-brand gummies which, if taken as directed, would represent 10 individual doses. THC is the primary psychoactive chemical compound in cannabis. 
 
 Detectives are investigating how Jones acquired the gummy candies, as recreational use and possession of THC without a state-issued medical card is illegal in Florida. Edible products, such as the candy, are not currently available from dispensaries under state medical marijuana rules. 
 
 “I warned us that all of this was coming,” Judd said in a press conference across from the school Thursday afternoon. Judd had been a staunch opponent of 2016's Amendment 2, the state constitutional amendment that made medical marijuana legal under state law, and earlier attempts by proponents for medical use. 
 
 Jones' parents are cooperating with investigators, Judd said, and understand the gravity of the situation. 
 
 Judd said that Jones shared the gummies with some friends during gym class. 
 
 A total of six children in seventh grade partook, Judd said — two boys and four girls. 
 
 Five were taken to the hospital via ambulance and one was transported by his or her parents. 
 
 Jones faces seven felony charges — six counts of distribution within 1,000 feet of a school and one on possession of cannabis resin — and a misdemeanor charge of possession of paraphernalia. 
 
 Judd said all the children are going to make a “great recovery,” but added “obviously we are concerned how a 12-year-old could come into possession of this drug, this illegal drug in the state of Florida. And two, why did he offer it to these six kids, which quite frankly, with the exception of one little quarter left, have apparently devoured this bar during gym class?” 
 
 Polk County Schools Superintendent Jacqueline Byrd said she applauds the staff for their quick response. 
 
 “When they heard something had happened with the students, they responded immediately,” she said. 
 
 Byrd said they went by classroom to check the children, contacted emergency medical services, and their parents. 
 
 “But you know, the sad part of this is, again, we could have been here with a different outcome,” she said. 
 
 “They followed through with the procedures and protocols we have in place in making sure that we keep our children safe. What I want to say to parents is everyone at school today is still safe, they will be safe again tomorrow, they are going to be safe throughout because we do have procedures in place to keep children safe,” Byrd added. 
 
 Byrd urged parents to monitor their children's online activity to see what they may be purchasing. 
 
 “The sheriff and I have a partnership and we have a commitment to keeping our campuses and our children safe,” Byrd said. 
 
 The children suffered stomachaches, dizziness, and one of them had almost passed out, Judd said. 
 
 Kathy Leigh Berkowitz can be reached at 863-802-7558 or kberkowitz@theledger.com. Follow her on Twitter @kberkowitzthel1. ||||| A 22-year-old Oklahoma man fatally shot himself with his gun on Saturday while on a family ski vacation in Colorado, according to reports from the Summit County sheriff's and coroner's offices. 
 
 The family of the man, Luke Gregory Goodman, is blaming his suicide on the multiple doses of marijuana-infused edibles he ingested just hours before his self-inflicted death, according to witnesses and reports. 
 
 Goodman, a Tulsa resident and graduate of Oral Roberts University, would have turned 23 in April. He died just after 4 a.m. Tuesday morning at St. Anthony's Hospital in Lakewood after more than two days on life support, according to Summit County Coroner Regan Wood. 
 
 Luke Gregory Goodman, 22 (via the Summit Daily) 
 
 "It was 100 percent the drugs," Goodman's mother, Kim Goodman, told Denver TV station CBS4, noting her son was well-adjusted. "It was completely because of the drugs — he had consumed so much of it." 
 
 Wood said "the circumstances and manner surrounding the death are consistent with a suicide." The cause of death, the coroner said, is a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Summit County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Taneil Ilano said the case is still under investigation. 
 
 As for the presence of marijuana's psychoactive ingredient, THC, in Goodman's system, Wood is awaiting a toxicology report, which could take three weeks to be finalized. But Wood did note that witnesses said Goodman "had consumed a large amount of edible marijuana candies prior to his death." 
 
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 If medical personnel find a significant amount of THC in Goodman's system and think it attributed to his taking his own life, it would make for the second suicide ascribed in part to edible marijuana since recreational sales started in January 2014. 
 
 In March 2014, 19-year-old Wyoming college student Levy Thamba became agitated after eating pot-infused edibles and leapt to his death from a Denver hotel balcony. 
 
 On Saturday, Goodman and his cousin Caleb Fowler had bused from Keystone to Silverthorne to buy some legal cannabis. "He was excited to do them," Fowler told CBS4. 
 
 Once back in their Keystone condo at the Black Bear Lodge, they ate some of the edibles, with Goodman eating several "peach tart candies" that individually were infused with the state-mandated dose of 10 milligrams, Fowler told the station. When Goodman didn't feel anything, he ate a couple more — ingesting a fifth edible, which would be five times the state's recommended dose for cannabis. 
 
 Reading from the police report, Ilano said another friend said "he did consume edible marijuana candies that day. He ate four edibles, described as gummy bears." 
 
 A few hours later, Fowler told CBS4, Goodman became "jittery." 
 
 "He would make eye contact with us but didn't see us, didn't recognize our presence almost," Fowler said. "He had never got close to this point. I had never seen him like this." 
 
 When Goodman's family left the condo that night, he refused to go along. Once his family was gone, Goodman retrieved a handgun "he typically traveled with for protection," according to the station, and killed himself. A 911 call for possible shots fired came in at around 10 p.m. Saturday, according to the Summit County Sheriff's Office. 
 
 Kim Goodman told the station that her son hadn't likely read the warnings on the edibles packaging about the standard 10-milligram serving size and the potential delay of its effects. She also said "there was no depression or anything that would leave us being concerned." 
 
 When contacted by phone Thursday, Kim Goodman declined to comment because she's talking exclusively with a Tulsa television station about her son's death. 
 
 Goodman's friends and family have been remembering a kind, spiritual and friendly young man on his Facebook page in the last few days. 
 
 "You were hated by no one and loved by all," one friend remembered on Tuesday. Another friend recalled, "He always made time to hear out his friends and he enjoyed the greatest adventures God made available on this earth." 
 
 Kim Goodman, who is planning a memorial service for her son on Friday in Tulsa, is now calling for action against Colorado's still-controversial marijuana laws. 
 
 "I would love to see edibles taken off the market," Kim Goodman told CBS4. "I think edibles are so much more dangerous." 
 
 Oklahoma is one of the states that have asked the Supreme Court to strike down Colorado's legalization law. The lawsuit filed in December by Oklahoma and Nebraska officials says the states have had an increase in costs from arrests and enforcement in their states when pot leaves Colorado. 
 
 Ricardo Baca: 303-954-1394, rbaca@denverpost.com or twitter.com/bruvs
– A Florida 12-year-old is facing seven felony charges for allegedly bringing a package of THC-laced gummy candies to school and sharing them with his classmates during a morning gym class at Mulberry Middle School in Polk County, ABC reports. Several students became ill with symptoms that included stomach pain, nausea, and dizziness after eating the Green Hornet brand gummies. Of the two boys and four girls who ate the pot candies, five were taken to the hospital and one was picked up by their parents, the Ledger reports, adding that the boy who brought the gummies to school did not consume them. The kids are reportedly recovering. Edible marijuana products are not currently legal in Florida, which has a medical marijuana program but not a recreational one. “I warned us that all of this was coming,” Sheriff Grady Judd, called by the Ledger a “staunch” opponent of medical marijuana, said. (In Washington, some old pot convictions were tossed.)