Students Charged After Allegedly Saying Parsley Was Drugs

PALM COAST, Fla. -- The Flagler County Sheriff's Office said two elementary students were taken into custody after pretending a plastic bag of parsley was marijuana.

The 10-year-old girls are students at Old Kings Elementary School. An arrest report said the girls were showing classmates a plastic bag with a green leafy substance they said was marijuana. School officials learned of the alleged bag of marijuana and called the girls into a conference with their parents.

Officials said the girls said they brought the bag of parsley to school as a prank. A spokeswoman for the sheriff's office said it's a crime in Florida to claim that a substance is a drug.

The girls were taken to the Flagler County Inmate Facility and released to their parents. They are suspended from school and must attend drug awareness classes.

It's good to know we are winning the war on drugs. Now I understand why they're trying to get Tookie Williams off of Death Row. So they can make room for the real bad guys.