More young children are getting sick from inadvertently eating marijuana edibles, according to a new study.
, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Pediatrics.
and the coronavirus pandemic, which meant more children were staying at home, most likely drove the increase, said a co-author of the study, Dr. Antonia Nemanich, an assistant professor of emergency medicine and toxicology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Dr. Sam Wang, an emergency medicine physician and pediatrician at Children’s Hospital Colorado, said the study reflects what he is seeing in his hospital.
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