Epileptic Mother of 5 Faces Jail Time for Smoking Marijuana While Breast-feeding
A 32-year-old mother of five kids faces a felony child endangerment charge for testing positive for marijuana use while breast-feeding. Erica Tucker says she was using cannabis to control her grand mal epileptic seizures after she could no longer afford her prescription drugs. If convicted she could face up to two years in jail and a $10,000 fine.
A former Bible school teacher, Tucker was arrested in August 2016 after she tested positive for marijuana in a hospital emergency room in March 2016. She’d been rushed to the hospital by ambulance after suffering her third grand mal seizure. Once she tested positive, the nurse asked her if she was breast-feeding her newborn child, and she told her yes. The nurse immediately called Child Protective Services.
“I was still nursing my youngest son and had no idea it would transfer,” Tucker says.
They also had no idea how touchy Johnson County would be. On Friday, prosecutors withdrew a plea offer of six months in jail, six months at an in-house rehab facility, three months at a halfway house and five years probation after their story appeared on WFAA on Thursday evening. Their attorney, Daren Van Slyke, also withdrew from the case because they had gone public.
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and you can cut your weed bill in half by recycling. 
