PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida (CNN) -- Two third-graders at a Florida elementary school are facing felony charges Wednesday after police said they were found to have 15 plastic bags of marijuana.

Port St. Lucie police said a cafeteria worker at the Rivers Edge Elementary School told them a 9-year-old boy had shown her a plastic bag of what appeared to be pot.

The boy had 12 small bags of marijuana, according to a police report.

The student admitted he attempted to sell some of the bags to another third-grader, according to police. A second pupil was found in possession of three bags, police said. He told police he got them from the first boy on the bus on the way to school.

The boy with three bags was charged with possession of marijuana, a felony because it happened on school grounds. The second boy was charged with felony possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.

The boy with 12 bags initially told police he found them on the ground in Fort Pierce, a city north of Port St. Lucie where he lives. He then said another child gave it to him to sell.

Police said they are looking for a Fort Pierce teenager in connection with the incident.

Port St. Lucie is an Atlantic Coast city about 120 miles north of Miami.

Police estimate the drugs -- about 16 grams of marijuana -- were worth about $75.

The boys were booked into the St. Lucie Regional Detention Center and then released to their parents or legal guardians Monday night. A police spokesman said these are the youngest children they have arrested on charges of marijuana possession.

A school district spokeswoman said the Rivers Edge Elementary School sent a letter to parents explaining the situation. She called it an isolated incident, the first of its kind involving elementary-age students in her district.

The students were suspended for 10 days and have been recommended for expulsion under the school district's zero-tolerance policy for drugs.

hahahaha... wow... thats all i have to say..

someone just sign on AIM?

*Wide-eyed in disbelief.*

yea, cuz kids that don't understand what the problem with pot is should simply be punished and not explained why it's wrong. Pot laws are bullshit.

-GreaterEvil

I remember some 12 year-olds asking me if they knew where I get some beans(ecstacy) or base(speed) from. I remmeber thinking fukin hell I didn't even know what ecstacy and speed was when I was that age.

Kids these days eh I must be getting old ;P

by the time i was 13 i had already done adderal and weed and maybe a few other pills i just cant remember i become a pot head in seventh grade and before the year was out i had already researched my ass off and knew what every drug was the dangers and the dose

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from where i'm at thats pretty fucking cheap for 16 grams.

when i wuz 14, i remember my bastard father saying if i ever started smoking or doing drugs he'd beat the shit out of me... a year later my mom divorced him and i started smokin weed and poppin pills..

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about 16 grams of marijuana -- were worth about $75.

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that is DAMN cheap for around here.

(and how much fucking money does a third grader have on him to buy 3 bags of weed?)

put Port St. Lucie in the record books!

Whats the point in punishing 9 year olds with felony charges. Its clear they didn't know what it was really. I highly doubt they truly understood what it was let alone why its bad. [hell most older people don't understand the reaosning behind it being 'bad' ]

I think they should simply focus on finding out who gave the 9 year odl a bag of weed. Im sorry, but if your trying to get 9 year old kids to sell weed for you, you need to be punched in the throaght.

when i was in third grade i didnt know anything about drugs. Thats crazy that a third grader was caught with possession, and it sounds like a third grader to show it off to a lunch worker, lol.

drugs are more heard of now and are an issue all around, so now little kids here about it and are curious about them.

wow, thats disturbing... if you want to deal drugs, thats fine by me; but come on, dont tell me you can't find more qualified pushers than third graders. i can just see those kids building up a rep in jail and then some one makes a documentary about "Lil' Jimmy" lol...

Wow, a fucking third grader with pot. Whats this world coming too? I could hardly read in third grade, and they already have pot. Thats just weird.

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i can just see those kids building up a rep in jail and then some one makes a documentary about "Lil' Jimmy" lol...

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Yeah, I can see that too, you know they could even have a nickname, like "Tiny" or "Pops".

this is why our fucking judicial system is so screwed up, we'd send a fourth-grader to the electric chair, I bet. Pot should be legal anyway but even i can understand an adult getting in trouble for having some just because they know actually know it's illegal and they accept the risk. But these kids aren't even 10 and they're gonna expel them and convict them on felony charges. I bet they didn't even know that what they were doing had legal implications, they're always just told that "drugs are bad" and "just say no". Even if they had known, are they really old enough to understand what a felony record does? I really doubt it. I say have have 'em go to an AA meeting and then leave them alone from there, they've prolly already had the shit scared out of the by some asshole cop grilling them in an interrogation room.

never trust anything that smells like bacon and carries a gun

damn this world is fucked up

I wonder if any of those kids were members on this board.

No offence but this isnt all that wierd...tha first time i ever had any drug was when i was in grade 3, it was weed, its not that odd really, mayby in smaller towns or towns with a no tolerance(like that makes any difference).I do agree though...who'd be retarded enough to use third graders a pushers?