[SoFloFreeper]

edibles are being blamed for an increase in the number of pot-related emergency room visits, including those from a half-dozen or so children who unknowingly ate pot-laced treats. The baked goods and candies also are believed to have played a role in two deaths in the past two months—providing opponents with front-page anecdotes that run counter to the cannabis-kills-no-one narrative long trumpeted by legalization advocates. A college student visiting from Wyoming jumped to his death from a Denver hotel balcony in March after consuming six times the recommended dose of a pot-infused cookie. The following month, a Denver man is believed to have shot and killed his wife after eating pot-laced candy, although police concede that he may have had other drugs in his system...

All consequences that will be ignored, by and large, by the dope stupified masses.

[ken5050]

It'll take a while for the longer term consequences to become apparent. Like motor vehicle accidents.

Also, if a student from a college in Colorado is a candidate for a job, all other things being equal, you have to think the employer will assume the worst.

Anyone know if Colorado has adopted metrics for DUI due to marijuana?

[redhawk.44mag]

and exploited by others instead of being looked at as the individual cases they are

[Labyrinthos]

All consequences that will be ignored, by and large, by the dope stupefied masses.

Not ignored, but rather appreciated as one of the many risks that society has to deal with every day. I'm willing to bet, for example, that during the first five months of legalized marijuana, a lot more people in Denver have gone to the emergency room because of alcohol poisoning than the number of people who sought emergency treatment for pot ingestion. I'm even willing to bet that during that five month period the number of deaths or serious injuries attributable to marijuana are significantly less than deaths or serious injuries attributable to alcohol, tobacco, Tylenol, or obesity.