A Colorado children's hospital saw four times as many marijuana-intoxicated teenagers land in its ER or urgent care centers following legalization of recreational pot in that state, a new study reports.
The number of teens diagnosed annually with marijuana intoxication or testing positive for pot during a drug screen at Children's Hospital Colorado rose from 146 in 2005 to 639 in 2014.
The findings run counter to national surveys that have shown no increase in teenage pot use in states where recreational marijuana is legal, said lead researcher Dr. George Sam Wang. He's an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
For example, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health found a similar percentage of teenagers reported pot use in 2015 as in the prior decade, researchers said in background notes.
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"Wang agreed that his study does not show that pot caused these kids to need emergency care.
ReplyDelete"All it is saying is we are seeing more teenagers coming into the ER or urgent care who are being diagnosed with cannabis abuse or have a urine drug screen positive for marijuana," Wang said."
So the story title, "Legalized pot sends more teens to ER in Colorado, study finds", is a little misleading in that it can be read several ways, not all of them neutral.
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ReplyDeleteAnd what you pen is not misleading?
Society is doped up enough without weed.
5:03 thank you! Now lets focus on the real drugs. How many young people are in the ER due to binge drinking? Pills?
ReplyDeleteAnd I guess the people that voted for this and put it in place could not see this coming? Such idiots!!
ReplyDeleteNo surprise here.. DUHH.. Anyone who has raised a teenager would predict this with perfect accuracy..
ReplyDeleteI knew it. There would be some potheads coming out of the woodwork saying this is a lie!
ReplyDeleteIts the concentrated edibles doing this folks.
ReplyDelete100% truth
DeleteThen SUE the govt !!!
ReplyDeleteMore anti POT BS. Pot has never killed anyone.
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