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Edible marijuana that looks like candy is sending kids to the ER
16 hours agoJeff Rossen and Jovanna Billington
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In Oregon, an 8-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital after finding a marijuana cookie at a park. In Michigan, two children were sent to the ER after getting into a man’s stash of gummy candy containing THC, the main psychoactive component in marijuana.
Marijuana is now legal for either recreational or medical use in 24 states and the District of Columbia. But “edibles” containing marijuana are spreading everywhere, and kids are getting hurt from California to New York. Last year alone, poison control facilities across the country reported 4,000 kids and teens exposed to marijuana.
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Edible marijuana that looks like candy sending kids to ER