Posted on 07/27/2016 9:41:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin
he rate at which Colorado children were exposed to marijuana began increasing in 2009, when the U.S. government first announced it would not prosecute residents who complied with the state's new medical marijuana laws. Dr. Genie E. Roosevelt, an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Denver Health Medical Center, expected that rate to go up even more when Colorado voters decided to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in 2012, the Times reports — but she never could have predicted the rate would increase as much as it did.
Since 2014 (when the law legalizing the recreational use of marijuana in Colorado took effect and recreational marijuana products went on the market), the rate at which Colorado children are exposed to marijuana has increased by a whopping 150%, according to a study in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
(Excerpt) Read more at goodhousekeeping.com ...
Second hand pot smoke?
They made it legal. They should pay for the consequences. Let them deal with it as long as they don’t want Federal Money. (Yeah, I’m dreaming....this is what it’s all about.)
One must beware of pot pies
I am amazed at the leftists and the dimmer libertarians who rightly say that tobacco smoke is harmful but somehow they think that unfiltered pot smoke is good for everyone.
With what the so-called conservative Republicans pulled int he Primaries with Trump in favor of Cruz, I’d say the marijuana affected more than the kids.
Frankly, it’s their problem. Deal with it. With their own money.
The next generation of Coloradans will look like a zombie movie set.
But dude.... its like 100% mother nature man. It like all natural and Obama will make it free, man.... wait wha? But we’re all responsible man..
Gee! Another example of unintended consequences.
Are you saying secondhand tobacco smoke is harmful?
In any event, tobacco and pot are legal, just like any other plant that grows out of the ground should be.
We all inhale secondhand smoke from smokers, wood fires, vehicle exhaust, factory emissions, and so on.
It's a price of living in modern civilization, I suppose.
I'm certainly not going to support hysterical nanny-state legislation, just so Big Government can save me from it all...
You have to get to the end of the article to discover that the actual number of such exposures is not very large.
Never saw that one coming. /s
I live in NY. They haven't legalized pot yet.
But over the last year or two, the retched THC-laced skunk stench is now everywhere. Public parks, roads, neighbors dope stench across my yard...etc.
Apparently it doesn't disperse very quickly.
SMH
Legalizing a harmful activity will always filter through society - children are not immune.
More like eating mom and dad’s pot-laced candies and cookies
Because THC is an oil, and oils stick on everything
Breaking news from the “Well, Doh” department.
I think THC is overrated
It’s all about the terpenes, yo.
And has no one ever heard of vaping pot rather than smoking it? Duh. It’s a no brainer.
With vaping you get all of the good stuff and none of the bad stuff.
Not to mention the danger to motorists when confronted with dopey, stoned Colorado drivers. State police in those states surrounding Colorado look for the Colorado tags and to see if the drivers are operating erratically.
If we had kept alcohol illegal, we might have stood a chance at keeping marijuana illegal. Bht the hypocris proved to be too large, I’m surprised it stood for this long.
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