Cannabis cookies served to Mormon Missionaries
(Melbourne Australia) The Age (AAP) 15Dec99 D2
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Cannabis cookies served to Mormon Missionaries (Melbourne Australia) The Age (AAP) 15Dec99 D2 http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/9912/15/A40146-1999Dec15.shtml Australian Associated Press

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA -- The details of a cruel joke played on two LDS missionaries in Melbourne were explained to a Melbourne court Tuesday. The unsuspecting missionaries were invited in to the home of Douglas Lynch, 40, and Alexander McLean, 46, on May 19th and offered cookies laced with cannabis, the plant that makes up marijuana. Both missionaries became ill and ended up in the hospital.

Elder Tom Pettit, a U.S. citizen, told the court that he and his companion went to the home to teach a man named Doug who they had met in the street earlier in the week. Lynch and McLean then offered the missionaries 30 freshly baked small cookies, of which the Elders ate 10 to 12 each, while their hosts ate three or four.

Elder Pettit then said that after about an hour, both Elders started to feel ill. He thought he'd been gassed and started shaking uncontrollably. He couldn't see or hear properly and finally blacked out.

Lynch and McLean have both plead not guilty to recklessly causing injury and inducing drug dependence in another, among other charges. Lynch also plead guilty to cultivating narcotic plants and possession of and use of cannabis. The trial is continuing.