While the University of Colorado School of Medicine study doesn’t claim marijuana as the cause of the visits, it argues they are related.
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“People in Colorado are becoming more experienced with use of these products”, Monte said. They may be less experienced with the particular products in the state.
Kim began the study when he was working on his residency in Colorado, before taking the job at Northwestern.
“Their lives have been adversely impacted by the imposition of the relatively new regime to control the use of marijuana for medical purposes”, Phelan wrote. The research took place in the emergency department of UCHealth’s University of Colorado Hospital.
“This is an historic day for Australia and the many advocates who have fought long and hard to challenge the stigma around medicinal cannabis products so genuine patients are no longer treated as criminals”.
Over the same time, marijuana-related ER visits by Colorado residents saw a 44 percent increase, from 70 per 10,000 in 2012 to 101 per 10,000 in 2014. That showed the rate among out-of-state residents rose from 78 per 10,000 visits in 2012 to 112 per 10,000 visits in 2013 to 163 per 10,000 visits in 2014.
A phenomenon called “marijuana tourism” may be leading to an uptick in marijuana-related emergency-room visits in Colorado, one of the few states where recreational use of the drug is legal, a new report finds.
“We were observing more and more out-of-state visitors coming to the emergency room for marijuana-related symptoms”, he said.
Tourists and Coloradans also had different complaints related to marijuana. The same isn’t true of Colorado residents, however. Their findings suggest that other states considering legalization “need to implement preemptive public health education efforts”, said CU’s Dr. Andrew Monte, the senior author of the study.
For example, pot-laced candy bars are supposed to be broken into ten pieces, with each piece containing a full 10-milligram serving of THC, the chemical in pot that gets you high, Hill said. It might be higher concentration than many people are used to, and visitors might not know.
“They eat the whole candy bar, and then they get blasted by the effect”, Hill said.
More honest reporting from patients could also factor into the increase, said Ali Nagib, assistant director of the IL chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
That panel, which included former Toronto police chief and Liberal MP Bill Blair, the president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, and experts on substance abuse, left Curley “heartbroken” because it made no mention of patients, she said.
Armentano agreed that consumer education is key. Those wealthy corporations in turn seemed to largely price gouge patients based off of the comments and articles I have read about the situation in Canada the last couple of years.
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To decrease the adverse effects of marijuana and increase awareness, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment established programs such as “Good to Know”, which is focused on educating Colorado residents about the side effects of marijuana use, according to Kim.
