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The researchers, all based in Colorado, predicted that there would be a bump after the Coloado law took effect in 2014, said Genie Roosevelt, a Denver Health Medical Center pediatrician and study author, in an interview with Live Science.
Edible products -- cannabis-laced brownies, cookies, candy and the like -- were responsible for about half of these cases, said senior study author Dr. Genie Roosevelt, a pediatric emergency medicine specialist with the Denver Health and Hospital Authority.
Date: Jul 26, 2016
Category: Health
Source: Google
When pot became legal in Colorado, kids' exposures went up
child resistant packaging requirements that were part of the recreational marijuana law might blunt any potential increase in accidental exposures in children, but the increase was more dramatic than expected, said senior author Dr. Genie Roosevelt of the Denver Health and Hospital Authority.
Date: Jul 25, 2016
Category: Health
Source: Google
Legalized pot sends more kids to the emergency room
In both settings, cases of marijuana exposure in kids escalated after legalization more than the researchers anticipated, senior study author Dr. Genie Roosevelt told CBS News. The study was published today in JAMA Pediatrics.
"We anticipated that the rate would likely go up" after the recreational use of marijuana was legalized in Colorado, said study co-author Dr. Genie Roosevelt, a pediatrician at Denver Health Medical Center. "What we didn't anticipate is how much it was going to go up."