Pot smoking 2 year old - Mama Faces 11 yrs in Prison

*Note: Whether you smoke it in the room or hand the drug to a child, you're getting them high, addicting them to the drug and encouraging them to become drug users/addicts.

CINCINNATI, Ohio (The Cincinnati Enquirer) - The 2-year-old girl, with her too-big tank top slipping off of her left shoulder, stands and watches television as she puts a joint to her lips and takes a puff before waving her arm to fan away smoke and continuing to puff on the marijuana cigarette.

The scene was caught on video using the mother's cell phone - shot by the mother, a Hamilton County indictment Wednesday charges.

Jessica Gamble, 21, of Springfield Township, was indicted on three felonies - corrupting another with drugs, child endangering and tampering with evidence - that carry a maximum prison sentence of 11½ years.

"It's beyond disgusting," Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said of the video. "I would get very upset if I found out my 16-year-old daughter was drinking a beer."

Gamble is accused of making or encouraging her daughter to smoke the joint.

"What's quite disconcerting is she is handling this like she's done this before," Deters said of the child.

At one point on the 1 minute, 37 second video shot in August, a voice believed to be Gamble's tells the girl "Don't blow on" the joint.

After the child takes a few more puffs, the same voice asks, "What is that?" and then a hand grabs the child's hand that is holding the joint. The person shooting the video - Gamble, the indictment alleges - takes the joint from the child's fist and holds it up so it is in the middle of the image frame. Then she laughs.

"It is disturbing to think that a parent would provide their 2-year-old child with marijuana," Deters said.

The child is living with a relative as Hamilton County Department of Jobs & Family Services investigates the incident.

The tampering with evidence charge, Deters said, was the result of Gamble deleting the video from her cell phone.

Before that happened, someone - Deters wouldn't say who, noting that person is a key witness in the case - saw the video and was so disturbed at seeing the child smoking marijuana that the person forwarded the video to another cell phone.

Then it was shown to officials at JFS, who contacted police.

"I am very grateful for the person who brought this to our attention," Deters said.


By Kimball Perry - The Cincinnati Enquirer
http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_story.aspx?storyid=131353

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• Pot smoking 2 year old
• Hamilton County
• Jessica Gamble
• felony

[Team503]

While I'm a proponent of the legalization of marijuana, and find the hyperbole about 'corrupting a child' and 'addicting them to drugs' offensively inaccurate, Ms. Gamble was clearly in the wrong. Recreational drugs - like marijuana, alcohol, and nicotine - are adult past-times best pursued away from children.

[N3wYearsR3v0luti0n]

@fallen1archer Im going through marijuana withdrawl right now, it is making me uncomfortable and was a terrible thing to start in the first place. when i was high, it made me lie to my family and deceive people I love. I disagree and im living proof that marijuana is addictive. you are an idiot to say that it is "scientifically proven" not to be addictive because there ARE studies from Boston College that shows that THC is physically and mentally addicting.

[mAdAsZaC]

did it for 6 months every night.... did not buy any more.... that was 2 years ago.

[dangerinthechamber45]

@N3wYearsR3v0luti0n your fucking stupid. im a stoner i could quit weed at anytime i dont need it but i enjoy it. your just pissed that your not high

[LUV2DNCE92]

soo sad i hurts because kids at my school seventh graders did this yesterday....the police man at our school legally arrested them sooo sad they were horrible at school got detintion...no wonder it happened

[gracieluvzpink]

God please help this child! Smh!

[jiny10180]

What the fuck

[Kiefer89]

11 years.. fuck. weed ain't that bad. I'd be worse if she made the kid drink alcohol. I'll roll a spliff and hope she gets good weed in prison..

[kyleseanpk1]

but see marijuana is not a drug..its a plant it just grow like that.

[Kinesis17]

@fallen1archer You do understand cigarettes contain tobacco? Also tobacco is not classified as a drug.

[fallen1archer]

first off, marijuana is not an addictive drug, although depending on who handles it may lace it with cocaine or angel dust. Second off, never push anyone to try any sort of drug, such as tobacco, and cigarettes, which are actually addictive when marijuana is scientifically proven not to be addictive. And never hand anyone weed who would cry from a punch (moron reference) .