poisoning – Marijuana Impact Group https://themig.org Marijuana Impact Group Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:08:54 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://themig.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/logo_reduced-150x150.png poisoning – Marijuana Impact Group https://themig.org 32 32 Legalization Linked to Increased Cannabis Use Disorders & Poisonings   https://themig.org/legalization-linked-to-increased-cannabis-use-disorders-poisonings/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:08:48 +0000 https://www.thenmi.org/?p=7773 The legalization of cannabis for medical and commercial adult use has been associated to “significant increases” in cannabis use disorders (CUD) and cannabis poisonings (CP) when compared to non-legalized states.   The authors of this study, Jayawardhana, J. (et.al.), researched national patient records (N=110,256,536), from 2011 to 2021, with diagnoses of a CUD or CP, by yearly quarters. They then compared the findings of states that have legalized cannabis (medically, commercial adult use, or both) against similar diagnoses in non-legalized states. They found that the CUD and CP diagnosis rates, per quarter, were notably higher, (by 3 to 4-fold), in states that have legalized cannabis.

Among their findings included, the enactment of state medical cannabis laws (MCL) was associated to a 42.7% increase in the diagnosis of cannabis use disorders (CUD) and an 88.6% increase in cannabis poisonings (CPs). In those states that implemented “recreational cannabis laws” (RCL), the rates of cannabis poisonings (CP) increased by 31.6% in the adult population.

The authors caution that the implementation of cannabis legalization at the state level for, medical or “recreational” use, is associated to greater health risks for the adult population, increased impacts to the health care system and final costs associated to the treatment for (CUDs) or (CPs). 

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]]> Marijuana edibles linked to increased poison center calls for kids https://themig.org/marijuana-edibles-linked-to-increased-poison-center-calls-for-kids/ Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:54:03 +0000 https://www.thenmi.org/?p=7143 Nationally, calls to poison control centers due to children, under age six, eating marijuana edibles increased by over 6-fold from 2017 to 2021. Three years was the median age for these marijuana edible exposure calls. Two-year olds were the largest group, accounting over 25 percent of all pediatric edible exposure calls. The authors note that of all pediatric marijuana edible exposure calls, about 20 percent were admitted for treatment while about one-third were treated and released from an Emergency Department (ED).

This report was prepared by physicians (M. Tweet, MD, A. Nemanish, MD, and M. Wahl, MD) of several Emergency Medicine Departments in Illinois and the Illinois Poison Center in Chicago.   

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