The 1-year-old baby who was poisoned by the synthetic drug bonsai in Patisia has been moved out of the ICU and is now being treated in a regular hospital ward at Athens Children’s Hospital “Aglaia Kyriakou”. It should be recalled that on Saturday morning, everything began at 08:56 when four members of the Greek Police DIAS unit, who had arrived at a residence in the Patision area on Acharnon Street, called the EKAB emergency center for an ambulance. The Greek Police had been called to the scene by neighbors who reported wild and prolonged screaming coming from the house in question. Initially, the DIAS unit officers suspected that the little girl had inhaled an unknown narcotic substance that her father had been smoking next to her, while the mother was absent during the police presence.
1-year-old baby from Patisia: Health condition update
The EKAB ambulance arrived at the scene within nine minutes and transported the little girl in very good condition, accompanied by another police patrol car, to Athens Children’s Hospital “Aglaia Kyriakou” emergency department (ER), where the attending doctors observed 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 rushed her into the pediatric intensive care unit (Pediatric ICU) of the hospital.
According to very well-informed sources from parapolitika.gr, with the assistance of specialists from the Poison Control Center, it was finally determined that the very young girl had put material soaked with the extremely life-threatening synthetic cannabinoid drug bonsai in her mouth… This is clearly a case of child endangerment, nothing less.
What is the drug bonsai
Let’s examine what this extremely dangerous synthetic cannabinoid drug bonsai is, which has no relation to the cannabis plant, to understand what allegedly happened in this Patisia area residence:
It’s a chemical substance that is sprayed onto plant material, which is then smoked like hashish or marijuana, but is much more dangerous. It contains synthetic cannabinoids (e.g., JWH-018, AB-FUBINACA, AM-2201), which “mimic” the action of THC (the active ingredient in marijuana), but are often much more potent. These substances are laboratory-produced 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 exactly they are 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 next to her, 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, as fortunately, the substance was not detected in the infant’s blood. In any case, we are dealing with criminal activity, namely child neglect and/or child endangerment.
