If you’re going to slip pot into someone’s cupcake, the live-fire military range might not be the best place to do it..Canadian Armed Forces Bombardier Chelsea Cogswell faces five years in prison after being found guilty Wednesday by a court-martial trial at CFB Gagetown in New Brunswick for spiking cupcakes..Cogswell was convicted on eight counts of administering a noxious substance and one count of behaving in a disgraceful manner. .The Guardian said her case marks the first time a Canadian soldier has been found guilty of administering cannabis to colleagues without their consent..Commander Sandra Sukstorf, the judge presiding over the court-martial, called Cogswell’s behaviour “shockingly unacceptable” adding her actions could have resulted in fellow soldiers being killed..In video testimony, Cogswell told military police she made chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing and a jelly bean on top for her fellow soldiers, but denied adding any cannabis..Cogswell, who has served in the Canadian military since 2011, was working in the canteen during the multi-week “Exercise Common Gunner” at Gagetown in July 2018, part of the Royal Canadian Artillery School’s officer training..Court heard five soldiers at the live-fire exercise tested positive for tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). A wrapper from one of the cupcakes also indicated the presence of THC..The cupcakes certainly changed the soldiers’ reactions..One incorrectly set timing fuses on explosives, another improperly loaded a weapon and a gunner walked in front of a howitzer. A soldier almost crashed his military truck and others say they were overcome by laughter, the Guardian reported..Court heard Cogswell had access to medical marijuana, which she used as a sleep aid..Sentencing takes place November 16..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
