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'You want to hit the blunt?': Teenager charged after allegedly giving toddler marijuana

A US teenager was arrested after allegedly urging a three-year-old boy to smoke weed in an incident that was captured on video, police said.

Lamel Yancy, from Arkansas, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after he posted the video to his Facebook page, according to police.

A YouTube user later posted the video to the site.

According to reports, police found the video while investigators were scouring social media accounts for suspects in an unrelated burglary case.

The baby appears to be smoking in the video. Photo: YouTube
The baby appears to be smoking in the video. Photo: YouTube

The video shows the young toddler being handed the drug and seemingly smoking it while sitting unbuckled in the back seat of a vehicle.

Yancy, 17, can be heard in the video asking the child, “You want to hit the blunt? You want to hit the gas?”

The toddler, who is shirtless and in a diaper, replies “Yeah.”

The baby then says, “Weed!” in excitement. Later on in the video you can hear him coughing.

Yancy can be heard encouraging the toddler to smoke. Photo: YouTube
Yancy can be heard encouraging the toddler to smoke. Photo: YouTube

The child is believed to be Yancy's nephew.

Police told Arkansas online that the child's mother at one point entered the back seat of the vehicle, objecting to Lamel handing the suspected marijuana to child.

Yancy has since been released from Pulaski County Jail on a bond of US$2,500.

News break – September 25