A police chief was taken to hospital after accidentally eating a cake laced with cannabis that was intended for his younger daughter.

Mike Berkemeier was convinced he was going to die after accidentally eating the pastry at his home in Laurelville, Ohio.

He thought it had been left by a friend in sympathy for his eldest daughter who was in hospital after a major road accident.

Shortly after eating the cake on Easter Sunday, Mr Berkemeier said he felt disorientated and confused.


‘It was flat out the worst experience of my life,’ he said.

‘I have never felt like I was going to die before. Not knowing what has happened to you and feeling like you have no control over what’s happening and not knowing what’s happened, is, I can’t even describe.



‘It’s the most awful feeling in the world. I really didn’t think I was going to live to see the next day. And that’s the God’s honest truth.’

Mike Berkemeier ended up in hospital after eating the cake (Picture: YouTube)

At one point he believed there were toxins in his house so went outside for fresh air.

‘I was on the phone with my daughter in the hospital, and I’m talking to her and I’m answering questions, but I’m not remembering what I just said. I’m going, “What is wrong me?”‘ he said.

Mr Berkemeier drove to the police station for help and was met by paramedics.

‘I don’t remember much of the drive here, even though it’s just a few blocks,’ he added.

The chief of police was admitted to the Berger Hospital in Circleville for a day-and-a-half while doctors performed tests to discover the problem.

He learned the truth when his fiancee, Vanessa Vara, asked her younger daughter about the cake.

‘When Vara asked her daughter where the cake came from, a scream was immediately heard over the phone,’ Mr Berkemeier told the local paper.

‘I could hear it from the hospital bed. I could hear it over my fiance’s phone. And then I thought, what is going on? She hangs up the phone and says it was the cake, get the nurse,’ he said.

Doctors promptly gave him a sedative and he slept off the impacts of the high.

The source of the cake has not been revealed but it was reportedly brought to the police chief’s home by a friend of his younger daughter, who had pleaded with her friend not to leave it behind.

Hocking County Sheriff’s office is investigating possible charges of corrupting another with drugs and assault.