PRO/EDR> Poisoning, marijuana – USA: (CO) children

Poisoning — Worldwide/Unknown
The number of children coming into Colorado’s largest pediatric emergency department after accidentally eating marijuana is on pace to more than double last year’s total.
Michael DiStefano, the medical director of the Children’s Hospital Colorado emergency department, said 9 kids so far this year [2014] have been brought into the hospital for accidental marijuana ingestion. Of those, 7 were admitted to the hospital’s intensive-care unit — most commonly for what DiStefano said was either