Marijuana-related emergency room visits in Colorado hospitals have increased three-fold since the state legalized recreational pot use in 2014, casting into doubt the notion that cannabis is harmless, Daily Wire is reporting.
For decades, advocates for cannabis legalization have insisted that the plant is more-or-less harmless, at least in healthy adults. It’s a claim that has largely been backed up only anecdotally, as marijuana’s status as a Category I controlled substance (“no medical benefit”) has severely limited federally-funded research into the plant.
Doctors in Colorado emergency rooms, however, are re-thinking the definition of the word “harmless,” as distressed pot users have been turning up in the state’s emergency rooms in droves. In general, the sick individuals present with one of two different reactions: the bad trip and the mystery vomiting illness.
The Bad Trip
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