Posted on 12/05/2022 8:16:22 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Figures from the National Poison Data System (NPDS) show adolescent cannabis use spiked by 245 percent between 2000 and 2020.
Research findings were published on Monday in the journal Clinical Toxicology, and detail a decline in the rate of alcohol abuse over the same period.
“Ethanol abuse cases exceeded the number of marijuana cases every year from 2000 until 2013,” explained study author Adrienne Hughes, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, in a release.
However, “since 2014, marijuana exposure cases have exceeded ethanol cases every year, and by a greater amount each year than the prior,” Hughes added.
Data showed cases of marijuana exposure were relatively stable from 2000 to 2009, but began increasing in 2011 and saw a big uptick between 2017 and 2020.
In addition to marijuana and alcohol, dextromethorphan had the highest total number of exposure cases over the study period, although use peaked in 2006 and has since decreased.
Compared with all other forms, edible marijuana had the highest average monthly increase in call rates to poison control centers. Cannabis extracts, like those used in vaping products, also grew in popularity, data showed.
Experts hypothesize the rise in marijuana exposure rates is due to the increased popularity of edible cannabis products that are now widely available across the country thanks to states’ legalization of recreational marijuana.
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As stoned population influenced by pervy “influencers” to wiggle and jiggle in whichever political direction the mavens of media desire.
Local politician: “We need to be wary about marijuana as we now have ‘super strains’” that didn’t exist 25 years ago.”
My friend to me: “Would like to find this super weed he is talking about.”
Anytime somebody talks to me about “super strains” and the “lack of a field sobriety test” I tune them out.
Very disturbing. A whole generation of kids at risk from all sorts of drugs, mostly legalized for adults too stupid to know better.
A friend of mine went insane from using too much weed.
He quit (I think) but the damage was done, he’s still in outer space.
Alcohol? Marijuana? Rookie stimulants. Step up to fentanyl, the quicker putter downer.
And weed is all he done? Color me doubtful.
To anybody who has ever had to interview moronials or gen zzzzz to fill any kind of job vacancy, that fact is excruciatingly obvious
The Dummy generation
And, marijuana has always been a gateway drug and recreational drug usage across the board has gone up as well.
Ronald Reagan must be looking down at all this in disgust.
Probably still only what it was in the 70s.
When I came to the USA (from UK) in the 80’s and went to high school, I was surprised by the number of people I found to smoke weed....to the point where it felt like the majority did, at least occasionally.
I’m not saying this hasn’t become worse but I’d guess more people now would be open about using than back then. The edibles are more modern, I’d guess many didn’t know what to expect...but it is generally very hard to “O.D.” from THC.
“This was the left/libertarian’s main method to F the country up.”
Stupid people believe that.
It’s certain he would have gone insane without it.
I don’t know. He used a lot of stuff and screwed up his entire family. I know he used ‘shrooms when he was younger, don’t know about now.
Guess porn is losing its ability to control the population so now it’s time to give them weed. That will lose its effectiveness after a few decades and they will move on to a new Vice to keep the population docile
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