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Marijuana exposures in young children rise in Colorado
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30162
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , recreation , medicine , environmental health , pediatrics , demography , psychiatry , medical emergency , political science , law , sociology , economics , macroeconomics
Data from a children's hospital and a regional poison center in Colorado suggest that the state's recreational marijuana law has contributed to an increase in unintentional pediatric exposures with potential health effects. Most of the young patients that have been seen in these cases have had generally resolvable symptoms such as drowsiness and problems with balance, although in a handful of cases significant respiratory depression has occurred, a co‐author told CPU .