I clicked on the link. Some interesting quotes in there from the actual author and the doctors that treated the child:
Co-author Thomas Nappe stressed
in an interview with The Washington Post that the marijuana was associated with the death but was not indicative of a cause-and-effect relationship. “
We are absolutely not saying that marijuana killed that child,” Nappe told the Post.
The authors wrote that urine screening for marijuana may be useful if other patients come in with the same symptoms and doctors can’t find a cause.
“In the age of legalized marijuana, children are at increased risk of exposure, mainly through ingestion of food products, or ‘edibles,’” they wrote.
Doctors were skeptical of the connection, pointing out that there were still many other possible risk factors that could have caused the child’s condition. “
It’s too much as far as I’m concerned,” Dr. Noah Kaufman, an emergency medicine specialist,
told KUSA. “Because that is saying confidently that this is the first case. ‘We’ve got one!’ And I still disagree with that.”
“
You just can’t make those statements because then what happens is lay people say, ‘
Oh my God, did you hear a kid died from marijuana poisoning?’ and it can be sensationalized,” Noah Kaufman, a Northern Colorado emergency room physician,
also told the Post.
Huh.
Here are some fun facts from the CDC:
With the exception of heroin, all of the drugs listed here are prescribed by a person with a medical license. Alcohol is not even included in this chart and you have to assume those numbers are astronomical. Deadly pharmaceuticals are legally sold every day, while natural cannabis is still illegal in most states. Dumb.
