New research has revealed that since medical marijuana was legalized in Colorado about three-and-a-half years ago, more than a dozen young children have been unintentionally poisoned by the drug.
About 50 percent of the cases were caused by children eating marijuana-laced cookies, brownies, sodas or candy.
In at least some of the poisoning instances, the marijuana came from supplies kept by the children's grandparents, investigators reported.
"We are seeing increases in exposure to marijuana in young pediatric patients and they have more severe symptoms than we typically associate with marijuana," said lead researcher George Sam Wang, a medical toxicology fellow at the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center in Denver.
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