{"id":13556,"date":"2017-09-14T13:25:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=13556"},"modified":"2017-11-30T11:38:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T11:38:02","slug":"mass-illnesses-due-to-marijuana-edibles-brownies-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2017\/09\/mass-illnesses-due-to-marijuana-edibles-brownies-candy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Illnesses Due to Marijuana Edibles, Brownies, Candy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mass Illness from Marijuana Edibles in San Francisco There\u2019s more potential for overdose from edibles than smoked marijuana, although the teen in Seattle who jumped to his death last December did it after smoking pot for the first time.\u00a0 Two shocking incidents in California suggest that overdose emergencies will increase if that states vote to legalize marijuana in November.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a summary of recent cases of toxicity from edibles:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7 19 people were hospitalized in San Francisco on August 7 from THC, after attending a quincea\u00f1era party.\u00a0 The source is believed be marijuana-infused candies, perhaps gummy bears. Several children were among those poisoned, one as young as six.\u00a0 A 9-year-old had severe difficulty breathing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Pot brownies sent a bachelorette party to the emergency room in South Lake Tahoe over the weekend of July 30-31. Eight of the 10 women were admitted to the hospital according to the City of South Lake Tahoe\u2019s website.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7 A JAMA Paediatrics article explains the dramatic rise in children\u2019s hospitalizations related to marijuana in Colorado since legalization.\u00a0 In 10 cases, the product was not in a child-resistant container; in 40 scenarios (34%) there was poor child supervision or product storage.\u00a0 Edible products were responsible for 51 (52% ) of exposures.\u00a0 The report claimed that child-resistant packaging has not been as effective in reducing kids\u2019 unintended exposure to pot as hoped.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7 The report mentions the death of one child, an 11-month-old baby.\u00a0 Nine of the children had symptoms so serious that they ended up in the intensive care unit of Colorado Children\u2019s Hospital.\u00a0 Two children needed breathing tubes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7 The state of Washington has a similar problem with edibles, as reported on the King County Health Department\u2019s website.\u00a0 From 2013 to May 2015, there were 46 cases of children\u2019s intoxications related to marijuana edibles reported in Washington.\u00a0 However, reporting is voluntary and the state estimates that number could be much higher.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0 In May, a father plead guilty to deliberately giving his 4-year-old daughter marijuana-laced cake in Vancouver, Washington.\u00a0 He was sentenced to two years in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Intoxication from marijuana edibles has risen steadily since legalization. Source: King County Department of Health. Top photo: AP<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\u00b7 In Hingham, MA, there was a 911 related to teen girl who ingested marijuana edibles.\u00a0 The candies were in a package labelled Conscious Creations, which didn\u2019t disclose ingredients.\u00a0\u00a0 Massachusetts has a medical marijuana program, but it is not clear how or to whom they were sold or dispensed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00b7 July, 2016: Two California teens were hospitalized after eating a marijuana-laced cookie. The teens reported purchasing the cookie from a third teenager who was subsequently arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7 July, 2016: A California man was arrested for giving candy laced with marijuana to a 6-year-old boy and an 8-year-old boy; the 6-year-old was hospitalized for marijuana poisoning.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7 July, 2016: Police in Arizona arrested a mother for allegedly giving her 11- and 12-year-old children gummy candy infused with marijuana. Police say the marijuana-infused candy was originally purchased by an Arizona medical marijuana user, but was illegally transferred to the mother in question.\u00a0 (State medical marijuana programs have poor track records of assuring the \u201cmedicine\u201d goes to whom it is intended.)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7 On April 27, a Georgia woman was arrested after a 5- year-old said he ate a marijuana cake for breakfast.\u00a0 The child was taken to the hospital for treatment following the incident; according to officials, his pulse was measured at over 200 beats per minute.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Last year there were more than 4,000 treatments at hospitals and poison center treatments in the US related to marijuana toxicity in children and teens.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Growth of marijuana edibles intoxication by age. Source: King County, Washington<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Edible marijuana poses a \u201cunique problem,\u201d because \u201cno other drug is infused into a palatable and appetizing form\u201d \u2013 such as cookies, brownies and candy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Many household items cause poisonings, but marijuana edibles are different because they\u2019re made to look appealing and they appeal to children.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.poppot.org\/2016\/08\/08\/latest-child-dangers-marijuana-e<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mass Illness from Marijuana Edibles in San Francisco There\u2019s more potential for overdose from edibles than smoked marijuana, although the teen in Seattle who jumped to his death last December did it after smoking pot for the first time.\u00a0 Two shocking incidents in California suggest that overdose emergencies will increase if that states vote to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,41,11,90,14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-drug-use-effects-on-foetus","category-effects-of-drugs","category-global-drug-legalisation-efforts","category-social-affairs","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}