As legal pot grows, more kids sickened by edibles at home AAPJournals
were reported to the nation's poison control centers between 2017 and 2021, climbing from about 200 to more than 3,000 per year.
Cases of kids eating pot products such as candies, chocolate and cookies have coincided with more states allowing medical and recreational cannabis use. Currentlyfor medical purposes and 21 states regulate adult recreational use. "When it's in a candy form or cookies, people don't think of it in the same way as household chemicals or other things a child could get into," she said."But people should really be thinking of it as a medication."
The results are not surprising, said Dr. Brian Schultz, a pediatric emergency physician at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. He previously worked at Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he and his colleagues treated kids who had eaten pot edibles"almost on a daily basis," he said.
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