Posted on 11/22/2023 11:40:42 AM PST by DallasBiff
The U.S. cannabis production industry's first reported occupational asthma death took the life of a worker in Massachusetts, federal health and safety officials said.
The woman, 27, was working in a cannabis cultivation and processing facility when she experienced worsening work-related respiratory symptoms that ended in a fatal asthma attack in January 2022, officials said in a federal report published Thursday. The report states that allergic diseases such as asthma are a growing concern in the U.S. cannabis industry, which has grown rapidly in recent years thanks to a wave of state-level legalizations.
The report said the worker's death "illustrates missed opportunities for prevention, including workplace exposures, medical surveillance, and treatment according to the current asthma guidelines."
The report also states that evaluation of workers with new-onset or worsening asthma is essential in cannabis facilities. That approach could help prevent workplace deaths when paired "with prompt diagnosis and medical management," the report states.
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Most grow facilities require you to be masked. The smell of pot in a grow room is what I can only describe as “thick.” Anyone spending more than a few minutes in there unmasked is going have trouble breathing. Someone with asthma would have a death wish going into there for a shift without breathing PPE.
I got “beat up” by the anti-smoking Nazis when I smoked Pall Malls!
So, I quit smoking.
Now, I get “beat up” by the dope smoking Nazis (same group of zealots!) because I won’t smoke weed!
Turns out, smoking weed is worse healthwise, in the long run than smoking Pall Malls!
I’m never gonna smoke weed again!
Tried it once in 1975, and it is the worst stuff I have ever had in my mouth!
I’m never gonna smoke weed again!
And, needless to say, I am 100% opposed to legalizing weed!
puffing the product for, ah....Testing! that’s the ticket. when WILL people figure out there’s a Reason it’s called DOPE.
22 months ago???
IS this the SLOWEST autopsy ever???
A pair of auto-injector Epipens, in a conspicuous location, is the next order of business for this employer.
They didn’t grow cannabis they grew hemp no THC to make rope and other items Henry Ford used it to make car body parts but it didn’t take off.
So the skunk smell from my neighbor’s suspected grow May be giving me asmaha?
I don’t mind the weed I just can’t afford the junk food afterwards
LOL!
My 1975 experiment with weed did NOT make me hungry!
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