Sonic Lunch Comes With a Side Order of Pot

A trip out to Sonic with the kids for lunch came with a nasty surprise for Carla McFarland when she found a small bag of marijuana inside her take-out bag.

McFarland was not amused.

“So after a few hard weeks I decided to take the kids to Sonic for lunch. I order, food comes, I open bag and this is what I see after 3 double takes….yes that’s what it is,” McFarland wrote in a Facebook post, including an image of the drug-filled plastic bag.

“After getting my food free, telling them to remake my order, the employee admits it’s hers, is fired on spot and I call police. Her punishment? Nothing but her lost job. Furious! Still in shock! Great hands-on drug lesson for kids… I guess,” McFarland added.

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The mom had stopped by the Sonic on Guilford Drive in Frederick Wednesday with her daughter, 6, and son, 8, after a trip to the library, the Frederick News-Post reports. McFarland had passed the chicken strips and fries to her children and found the alleged bag of marijuana as she reached in for her own food.

“I just kind of sat there in my car in shock,” McFarland told Frederick News-Post. “I kept thinking, what if my kids had eaten it?”

Frederick County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Lt. Jennifer Bailey said the contents of the bag are being tested to confirm whether or not it is actually marijuana. No arrests have been made and the employee’s name will not be announced unless she is charged, the newspaper says.

The incident sparked a conversation about drugs between McFarland and her children. And while some may be amused by the incident, McFarland is not.

“It could have been crack. It could have been cocaine in that little baggie,” she told the Frederick News-Post.

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