The one-year-old baby from Patisia remains hospitalized at Athens Children’s Hospital “Aglaia Kyriakou” in good condition and has been taken off the ventilator. The infant was rushed to the hospital last Saturday morning by National Emergency Care Center (EKAB) ambulance, accompanied by a Hellenic Police patrol car.
It all began at 8:56 AM on Saturday, October 11, when four officers from the Hellenic Police DIAS team arrived at a residence in the Patisia area on Acharnon Street and called the EKAB telephone center for an ambulance. The Hellenic Police had been called to the scene by neighbors who reported wild and prolonged screams coming from the house. Initially, the DIAS team officers suspected that the little girl had inhaled an unknown narcotic substance that her father had been smoking nearby, while the mother was absent during the police presence.
The EKAB ambulance arrived within nine minutes and transported the girl in very good condition, accompanied by another police patrol, to Athens Children’s Hospital “Aglaia Kyriakou” emergency department (ED). The attending physicians noticed a dangerous deteriorating trend in the one-year-old infant’s health condition. Given the case history, doctors proceeded to intubate the little girl and urgently admitted her to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
According to well-informed sources from parapolitika.gr, with the assistance of specialists from the Poison Control Center, it was ultimately determined that the very young girl had put material soaked with the extremely life-threatening synthetic cannabinoid drug bonsai in her mouth. This clearly constitutes child endangerment, nothing less.
What is the bonsai drug that the Patisia infant was exposed to
Let’s examine what this highly dangerous synthetic cannabinoid drug called bonsai is, which has no connection to the cannabis plant, to understand what allegedly happened in this Patisia area residence:
It is a chemical substance sprayed onto plant material that is smoked like hashish or marijuana, but is much more dangerous. It contains synthetic cannabinoids (e.g., JWH-018, AB-FUBINACA, AM-2201) that “mimic” the action of THC (the active ingredient in marijuana) but are often many times more potent. These substances are produced in laboratories and frequently change composition, making them unpredictable and extremely dangerous.
The symptoms and effects of bonsai can include:
- Euphoria, but also
- Paranoid thoughts, hallucinations
- Loss of contact with reality
- Respiratory distress
- Rapid heartbeat, high blood pressure
- Seizures
- Coma or even death
This is an extremely dangerous synthetic chemical drug because:
- These chemical substances are not quality controlled
- Content varies from batch to batch
- Users don’t actually know what they’re smoking
- Many bonsai users end up in hospitals with very serious symptoms or even die from overdose
Child neglect
Therefore, whether the one-year-old girl inhaled smoke from bonsai use by her father nearby, or whether the little girl tried to chew “mimetically” on a leaf from the plant sprayed with the bonsai drug, the second version seems more likely since the substance was fortunately not detected in the infant’s blood. In any case, we are dealing with criminal activity – child neglect and/or child endangerment.
