A Hong Kong student high: No jail time for selling cannabis cupcakes and brownies
Student gets HK$10,000 fine after baking hash cakes and selling them on Facebook
A secondary school student was spared jail for selling drug-laced delicacies to her classmates at her school's athletics meet in Tsing Yi last year.
Dora Radic, 18, was slapped with a HK$10,000 fine in Tsuen Wan Court yesterday after she previously pleaded guilty to one count of trafficking a dangerous drug involving 0.38 grams of cannabis in the form of five "hash brownies" and 22 "weed cupcakes" at Tsing Yi Sports Ground on November 3 last year.
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Her co-defendant, Natasha Richards, 17, admitted the same charge earlier and will be sentenced on January 11.
Radic is a Form Four student at the YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College, while Richards is an ex-student who is now studying in Macau.
The court heard earlier that a teacher at the school first learned about the sale of the cakes through a pupil who saw messages on Facebook.
On the day of the sports event, the court heard, the teacher and a colleague found Radic and Richards, who tried to leave behind a bag when they were asked to follow the teachers.
The pair also attempted to throw away some of the cakes before the police arrived, but to no avail. Police found 22 cupcakes and five brownies in the bag.