Edible marijuana sends outsize number of people to hospital, Colorado study finds

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Edible marijuana sends outsize number of people to hospital, Colorado study finds

University researchers say effects of edibles can be longer lasting than people realize after study reveals ‘striking results’

Amanda Holpuch in New York
Mon 25 Mar 2019 21.00 GMT

Edible marijuana products are a small slice of cannabis sales in Colorado, but were linked to a large proportion of cannabis-related emergency room visits in the state, according to a study published on Monday.

From January 2012 to December 2016, edibles accounted for 10.7% of emergency room visits attributable to cannabis use at the University of Colorado Health emergency department in Aurora, Colorado, though they only accounted for 0.32% of cannabis sales in that same period, according to the Annals of Internal Medicine study.

This is not simply because people are taking larger numbers of edibles to compensate for how much longer it takes to feel the effects than when cannabis is inhaled, said lead researcher Dr Andrew Monte.

“It was a striking thing,” Monte, an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado, told the Guardian. “It wasn’t like these people were taking 100mg or 500mg of cannabis edibles. These were relatively lower doses.”

Monte said the adverse impact of edibles can last longer and be more intense than people expect.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/edible-marijuana-colorado-cannabis-hospital-study

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Related: Acute Illness Associated With Cannabis Use, by Route of Exposure: An Observational Study (Annals of Internal Medicine)

[BigmanPigman]

1. YES they can!

I ate choc chip cookies made by a roommate as a thank you for letting her boyfriend stay in our apt for two weeks. We all ate them not knowing that the pot was killer shit from Bermuda or someplace. The next day half of us couldn't even go to class. I felt the effects for 24 hours and hallucinated too.

[Freethinker65]

2. Did nothing for me

[mopinko]

5. yeah, just do not do it for me.

other people passing out, and i'm like-might as well have another beer.

[samnsara]

3. i made snickerdoodles once using a CUP of ground bud flour

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...after greening out i tossed the entire batch into the garbage..in an animal proof container. I think they may have been 200mg. I stick with 25 mg now..thats all i need to get to sleep.

[Thyla]

4. Man, I magine there is a huge difference

Between the edibles of the past compared to today.
I mean it's not just the left over leaf going into some cookies anymore.

It's one of those 'too old for that shit' moments I think.

[htuttle]

6. What the heck good is a hospital going to do?

Nothing but time is going to wear it off, no matter where you are.

Back when I was in college, one of the neighborhood frat boys called 911 on himself after he took a bunch of acid (on purpose). All I could think as they strapped him down to a gurney is, "Well now this experience isn't going to help make his trip any easier..."

[samnsara]

7. man o man acid is something i will NEVER DO!!!!

[htuttle]

8. It was the 80's