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Cannabis-related poison control calls for Massachusetts kids doubled after medical pot legalized

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Cannabis-related poison control calls for Massachusetts kids doubled after medical pot legalized -- ScienceDaily

After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, cannabis-related poison control calls involving the Commonwealth's children and teenagers doubled, according to a public health investigation.


After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, cannabis-related poison control calls involving the commonwealth's children and teenagers doubled, according to a public health investigation led by University of Massachusetts Amherst injury prevention researcher Jennifer Whitehill.

The increase in calls to the Regional Center for Poison Control and Prevention at Boston Children's Hospital occurred despite legislative mandates for childproof packaging and warning labels, and before the recreational use of marijuana was legalized for adults.
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Bad stuff for kids.
 
Cannabis-related poison control calls for Massachusetts kids doubled after medical pot legalized -- ScienceDaily

After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, cannabis-related poison control calls involving the Commonwealth's children and teenagers doubled, according to a public health investigation.


After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, cannabis-related poison control calls involving the commonwealth's children and teenagers doubled, according to a public health investigation led by University of Massachusetts Amherst injury prevention researcher Jennifer Whitehill.

The increase in calls to the Regional Center for Poison Control and Prevention at Boston Children's Hospital occurred despite legislative mandates for childproof packaging and warning labels, and before the recreational use of marijuana was legalized for adults.
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Bad stuff for kids.

Who would have thought that unprescribed mind-altering drugs could in any way be possibly harmful to children? And here I was told that the dangers presented by soft drugs like marijuana from programs like D.A.R.E. was overwrought fear-mongering.
 
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Cannabis-related poison control calls for Massachusetts kids doubled after medical pot legalized -- ScienceDaily

After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, cannabis-related poison control calls involving the Commonwealth's children and teenagers doubled, according to a public health investigation.


After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, cannabis-related poison control calls involving the commonwealth's children and teenagers doubled, according to a public health investigation led by University of Massachusetts Amherst injury prevention researcher Jennifer Whitehill.

The increase in calls to the Regional Center for Poison Control and Prevention at Boston Children's Hospital occurred despite legislative mandates for childproof packaging and warning labels, and before the recreational use of marijuana was legalized for adults.
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Bad stuff for kids.



A few details:

Those calls represented 0.15 percent of all poison control calls during that time period for that age group.

Nearly 80 percent of the calls to the poison control center came from healthcare facilities, and, in terms of medical outcomes, most of the exposures resulted in moderate and minor effects. Four cases with major effects and no deaths were reported

Calls involving edible cannabis products increased for most age groups, including ages 15-19. Because other research has found that the proportion of teens using marijuana is remaining about the same even as marijuana laws are loosening, this finding suggests that teenagers may be caught off guard by the potentially potent effects of edibles and concentrated extracts, Whitehill says.
 
A few details:

That last point is very familiar. Most people I know who ate/utilized concentrates and edibles for the first time were completely and totally surprised by their potency.
 
Who would have thought that unprescribed mind-altering drugs could in any way be possibly harmful to children? And here I was told that the dangers presented by soft drugs like marijuana from programs like D.A.R.E. was overwrought fear-mongering.

So where has it been legalized for kids or has been encouraged that kids use it? Oh yeah, it hasn't. Neither has alcohol. There is a reason that there is an age limit to purchase it (currently 21).

Also, I have yet to see a death due to the use of marijuana (unlaced of course) unlike alcohol where we have deaths due to alcohol poisoning each year.
 
That last point is very familiar. Most people I know who ate/utilized concentrates and edibles for the first time were completely and totally surprised by their potency.

Snoop Dogg doesn't like them because of their potency. Comment was "you can't turn that **** off". :lamo
 
Who would have thought the dope heads are trying to poison their own kids ...
 
So where has it been legalized for kids or has been encouraged that kids use it? Oh yeah, it hasn't. Neither has alcohol. There is a reason that there is an age limit to purchase it (currently 21).

And cigarettes were not technically specifically marketed toward children who could not legally purchase them either (at least not since 1980). And yet children managed to buy cigarettes, and were subtly (and not so subtly) encouraged to do so. Cigarette and Alcohol use is legally encouraged through constant commercialization and marketing of the products, so long as the tagline "drink responsibly" is quickly posted at the end of the commercial. This is not only in the popular media, but on posters, on billboards, etc. Unless you have parental controls over everything your children or your younger siblings watch, they almost certainly see a constant stream of messaging telling them that beautiful, fun, exciting people drink the delicious cool spirits advertised, and they can join in the fun if they drink too.

Also, I have yet to see a death due to the use of marijuana (unlaced of course) unlike alcohol where we have deaths due to alcohol poisoning each year.

No one has to die for a drug to ruin lives. If you are forced to care for a son or daughter or brother or sister for the rest of their lives because they suffered from the on-set of brain damage or schizophrenia after taking a mind-altering substance that ruined their brain function, your life can be equally as miserable to the instance of your child or sibling dying.

EDIT: And you will not find any hypocrisy from me on the question of alcohol. I am a teetotaler who, if I could, would make the sale, distribution, purchase and possession of alcohol in quantities greater for anything except perhaps cooking illegal.
 
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And cigarettes were not technically specifically marketed toward children who could not legally purchase them either. And yet children managed to buy cigarettes, and were subtly (and not so subtly) encouraged to do so. Cigarette and Alcohol use is legally encouraged through constant commercialization and marketing of the products, so long as the tagline "drink responsibly" is quickly posted at the end of the commercial. This is not only in the popular media, but on posters, on billboards, etc. Unless you have parental controls over everything your children or your younger siblings watch, they almost certainly see a constant stream of messaging telling them that beautiful, fun, exciting people drink the delicious cool spirits advertised, and they can join in the fun if they drink too.

So you are advocating that Alcohol and Cigarettes be COMPLETELY BANNED as well right? Otherwise, what is your actual point? Everyone of these things is limited to the LEGAL purchase of 21.

No one has to die for a drug to ruin lives. If you are forced to care for a son or daughter or brother or sister for the rest of their lives because they suffered from the on-set of brain damage or schizophrenia after taking a mind-altering substance that ruined their brain function, your life can be equally as miserable to the instance of your child or sibling dying.

So again are you advocating for the alcohol and cigarettes be COMPLETELY BANNED? Or is this just another Marijuana scapegoat post? You realize that alcohol, cigarettes (due to nicotine) and hell even CAFFEINE are MIND ALTERING DRUGS right?
 
So you are advocating that Alcohol and Cigarettes be COMPLETELY BANNED as well right? Otherwise, what is your actual point? Everyone of these things is limited to the LEGAL purchase of 21.



So again are you advocating for the alcohol and cigarettes be COMPLETELY BANNED? Or is this just another Marijuana scapegoat post?

Yes, Praxas. I would advocate for alcohol and cigarettes to be completely banned. I have stated so on other threads, that the harm and externalities they create far outweigh their meager benefits.
 
Cannabis-related poison control calls for Massachusetts kids doubled after medical pot legalized -- ScienceDaily

After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, cannabis-related poison control calls involving the Commonwealth's children and teenagers doubled, according to a public health investigation.


After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, cannabis-related poison control calls involving the commonwealth's children and teenagers doubled, according to a public health investigation led by University of Massachusetts Amherst injury prevention researcher Jennifer Whitehill.

The increase in calls to the Regional Center for Poison Control and Prevention at Boston Children's Hospital occurred despite legislative mandates for childproof packaging and warning labels, and before the recreational use of marijuana was legalized for adults.
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Bad stuff for kids.

Why are they being prescribed to kids?
Are opiates prescribed to kids? Which is a much much much much worse drug than cannabis.

BTW - what reaction are the kids having to cannabis?

From your OP link.

During the study period, the poison control center received 218 calls from Massachusetts involving cannabis exposure in children and teens, from infancy to age 19, including 98 single-substance calls and 120 polysubstance calls. Those calls represented 0.15 percent of all poison control calls during that time period for that age group.

Looks like there are much bigger fish to fry in terms of children getting their hands on poisons in the household.
 
Yes. I would advocate for alcohol and cigarettes to be completely banned.

Ok so we can successfully dismiss your comments as that being completely nuts. Let me guess you prescribe JESUS instead? :lamo

Thank you for admitting your cause at least.
 
Yes, Praxas. I would advocate for alcohol and cigarettes to be completely banned. I have stated so on other threads, that the harm and externalities they create far outweigh their meager benefits.

Not going to happen, and the prohibition is a superb example of the utter futility and cost of trying.

That marijuana _might_ cause brain damage in the young, those who are not supposed to have or consume it, is no real justification whatsoever for depriving the rest of society of the liberty and legal ability to partake of something widely enjoyed, nevermind the run on effects of economic deprivation (no multi-billion dollar industry generating jobs, taxes and otherwise providing for the population), the elimination or material reduction in the use of cannabinoid painkillers to substitute for far more harmful and addictive opiates, and the enrichment/empowerment of organized crime as it steps in to fulfill a demand beyond all legal regulation and purview that your moralizing and pearl clutching will never quash.
 
From OP link.

Some highlights of the findings:

The incidence of calls for single-substance cannabis exposure increased 140 percent during the study period -- from 0.4 per 100,000 population before medical marijuana was legalized to 1.1 per 100,000 population after legalization.
Nearly 80 percent of the calls to the poison control center came from healthcare facilities, and, in terms of medical outcomes, most of the exposures resulted in moderate and minor effects. Four cases with major effects and no deaths were reported.


Parents need to be more careful with all poisons they have in the house.
 
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Ok so we can successfully dismiss your comments as that being completely nuts.

Why is it completely nuts? What is your argument for allowing the purchase and consumption of drugs that costs us the lives of tens of thousands of fellow citizens every single year (88,000 in 2018 alone)? And not just the people who consume it, but innocent bystanders who are killed by drunk drivers, or those who get cancer from second-hand smoke?

Let me guess you prescribe JESUS instead? :lamo

No, I am an atheist but if you find solace and joy in religion I would not presume to take that from you. Personally, I would prescribe finding pleasure in your own headspace with friends and loved ones rather than the escapism of mind-altering drugs the temporary pleasures of which can and often do lead to addiction, alienation, dissipation and a miserable death of both yourself and possibly others.

Thank you for admitting your cause at least.

You are welcome.
 
Cannabis-related poison control calls for Massachusetts kids doubled after medical pot legalized -- ScienceDaily

After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, cannabis-related poison control calls involving the Commonwealth's children and teenagers doubled, according to a public health investigation.


After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, cannabis-related poison control calls involving the commonwealth's children and teenagers doubled, according to a public health investigation led by University of Massachusetts Amherst injury prevention researcher Jennifer Whitehill.

The increase in calls to the Regional Center for Poison Control and Prevention at Boston Children's Hospital occurred despite legislative mandates for childproof packaging and warning labels, and before the recreational use of marijuana was legalized for adults.
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Bad stuff for kids.

And yet, you cannot overdose on it, and no one ever has.
 
Cannabis-related poison control calls for Massachusetts kids doubled after medical pot legalized

oh, dear. welp, that does it. we should go back to throwing the kiddies in jail for reefer possession and ruining their lives in the process.
























































not
 
And yet, you cannot overdose on it, and no one ever has.

You can, it's just it's extremely and impractically difficult to do so; Wikipedia yet all assertions are sourced:

Wikipedia said:
No fatal overdoses with cannabis use have been reported.[26] A review published in the British Journal of Psychiatry in February 2001 said that "no deaths directly due to acute cannabis use have ever been reported".[27]

THC, the principal psychoactive constituent of the cannabis plant, has an extremely low toxicity and the amount that can enter the body through the consumption of cannabis plants poses no threat of death. In dogs, the minimum lethal dose of THC is over 3 g/kg.[28]

According to the Merck Index,[29] the LD50 of THC (the dose which causes the death of 50% of individuals) is 1270 mg/kg for male rats and 730 mg/kg for female rats from oral consumption in sesame oil, and 42 mg/kg for rats from inhalation.[30]
 
Cannabis-related poison control calls for Massachusetts kids doubled after medical pot legalized -- ScienceDaily

After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, cannabis-related poison control calls involving the Commonwealth's children and teenagers doubled, according to a public health investigation.


After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, cannabis-related poison control calls involving the commonwealth's children and teenagers doubled, according to a public health investigation led by University of Massachusetts Amherst injury prevention researcher Jennifer Whitehill.

The increase in calls to the Regional Center for Poison Control and Prevention at Boston Children's Hospital occurred despite legislative mandates for childproof packaging and warning labels, and before the recreational use of marijuana was legalized for adults.
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Bad stuff for kids.

Did anybody legalize cannabis use for children?
 
You can, it's just it's extremely and impractically difficult to do so; Wikipedia yet all assertions are sourced:

How many people have overdosed and died from marijuana?

I can name them: no one.
 
How many calls about underage alcohol at the same time???
 
How many people have overdosed and died from marijuana?

I can name them: no one.

Right, that's the point.

The lethality and toxicity of marijuana is so low that any argument set against it on such a basis approaches the absurd, and that is doubly true in a society that tolerates alcohol.
 
Why is it completely nuts? What is your argument for allowing the purchase and consumption of drugs that costs us the lives of tens of thousands of fellow citizens every single year (88,000 in 2018 alone)? And not just the people who consume it, but innocent bystanders who are killed by drunk drivers, or those who get cancer from second-hand smoke?

No, I am an atheist but if you find solace and joy in religion I would not presume to take that from you. Personally, I would prescribe finding pleasure in your own headspace with friends and loved ones rather than the escapism of mind-altering drugs the temporary pleasures of which can and often do lead to addiction, alienation, dissipation and a miserable death of both yourself and possibly others.

You are welcome.

Tell you what, I'll go ahead and apologize, calling your views NUTS was a bad insult to your views. Ok? You have your views and whether I think they are right or wrong, they are yours.

Let me start by saying there are productive people in society that use alcohol, cigarettes and/or marijuana and never kill or hurt anyone. It is their choice. Your beef with all three of these are "possible" actions that "could" happen to them or others.

Let me say right off the bat, responsible use of alcohol or marijuana does not include driving or using at work. Can people abuse them? Yes. Just like someone who is obese could have a heart attack due to it and kill someone. So where do you draw the line on REGULATORY use of whatever?

Food is LEGAL and there are obese people prone to heart attacks and those people drive and use machinery. So do you outlaw being obese? How far do you go is what I'm saying, legitimately?
 
Not going to happen, and the prohibition is a superb example of the utter futility and cost of trying.

Certainly, Prohibition was a colossal failure because it criminalized the sale and distribution of alcohol rather than simple possession. The government focused on the supply of alcohol rather than criminalizing demand of alcohol (focusing on the buyers). That and the government focused very few resources into the agencies expected to enforce the Prohibition laws.

That marijuana _might_ cause brain damage in the young, those who are not supposed to have or consume it, is no real justification whatsoever for depriving the rest of society of the liberty and legal ability to partake of something widely enjoyed, nevermind the run on effects of economic deprivation (no multi-billion dollar industry generating jobs, taxes and otherwise providing for the population), the elimination or material reduction in the use of cannabinoid painkillers to substitute for far more harmful and addictive opiates, and the enrichment/empowerment of organized crime as it steps in to fulfill a demand beyond all legal regulation and purview that your moralizing and pearl clutching will never quash.

Two points, Surrealistik. First, my moralizing and pearl-clutching is based on the fact that allowing the consumption of mind-altering substances leads to horrible and irreparable harm within society. I do not put my liberty to engage in activities that rob me of my senses and lead me to reckless action over the lives of my fellow citizens. That is not liberty. That is license.

Second, to the point of collecting money on taxes for extremely profitable industries which cater to our most base pleasures, I must ask: was the tax on the sales of alcohol worth 88,000 lives in 2018? How many lives would alcohol have to cost the United States in a year for us to rethink how we allow its production, sale, marketing and distribution over all the tax dollars that are netted by the government? 100,000 dead in a year? 500,000? Perhaps one million? Just because an illicit industry is highly desired and might prove extremely profitable in terms of tax revenue is not an argument for allowing that industry, unless the only thing that matters is how much money the government can squeeze out of every form of economic intercourse imaginable.
 
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