A member of the Canadian Armed Forces will spend 30 days in jail for offering cannabis cupcakes without their consent to her military colleagues.
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Pilot Chelsea Cogswell received her award on Friday at base in Gagetown, New Brunswick.
The events are said to date back to July 2018, when the 28-year-old offered chocolate candies to eight of her colleagues, just before a shooting exercise.
Judgment altered by drugs, the soldiers then dropped the shells. An artilleryman attempted to load a round into a howitzer with the protective tip still in place. Another admitted to mis-timing a rocket that controls the distance a shell should explode.
“This case is unique and no other similar case exists,” admitted military judge Sandra Sukstorf during sentencing, as reported by CTV News.
Mme Cogswell will serve her sentence at the New Brunswick Women’s Correctional Center in Miramichi.