Marijuana ER visits climb in Denver hospital study

No description (yet) on the photo but I'm guessing it shows a couple of 'gummies'. Kind of messy article but full of interesting insights. The last quote says a lot!

Marijuana is fine, until you inadvertently overdose. Once bitten, twice shy, perhaps.

Marijuana is fine, until you inadvertently overdose. Once bitten, twice shy, perhaps.

You can't overdose on marijuana... Someone with mental problems or depression can be made more sensitive on a substance like marijuana, but not limiting to, and then decide to take their life.

I wonder why the article doesn't actually explain the diagnosis of these people going to the hospital...I bet they were sent home and told to lay off the edibles cause it sounds like they ate too much and got really, really high. That's all.

Deadforgood, I guess you only read the positive parts of the article and missed the overdosing parts, oh and the three deaths too. Remembering college friends and some of their stories, I stand by my post. You can overdose, especially if you mix with other things and then take more if nothing seems to happen immediately.

Until these 3 deaths, nobody has ever been proven to have overdosed by smoking marijuana anywhere in the USA recreationally. I'd want to see more detailed facts before deciding anything.

Gummy is sugar. Many diabetic people don't know they are diabetic. Adding some marijuana could let them ignore other warning signs from a sugar overdose.

There have been warnings about pesticides on the plants causing problems too. We know to wash our vegetables, but do the sellers wash the marijuana plants before drying?

For me, I'd rather NOT have a hangover from alcohol.

Emergency room records from Monte's hospital show a three-fold increase in marijuana cases since the state became the first to allow sales of recreational marijuana in January 2014. Nearly a third of patients were admitted to the hospital, evidence of severe symptoms, Monte said.

How many people were admitted?

Also found this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/11/17/the-truth-behind-the-first-marijuana-overdose-death/

“You just can’t make those statements because then what happens is lay people say, ‘Oh my God, did you hear a kid died from marijuana poisoning?’ and it can be sensationalized,” said Noah Kaufman, a Northern Colorado emergency room physician.

Until these 3 deaths, nobody has ever been proven to have overdosed by smoking marijuana anywhere in the USA recreationally.

And still haven't. The three deaths were not from smoking, they were from their actions after smoking.