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Study Finds 147 Percent Increase in Childhood Marijuana Exposure

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 06/09/2015 - 08:00

As legal marijuana proliferates across the country, one consequence appears to be unavoidable: More young children will accidentally be exposed to pot. It's just entropy, a law of nature: If a child can get its hands on something, he or she will eventually.

The journal Clinical Pediatrics recently published a comprehensive study of marijuana exposures of children under the age of 6. Compiling 13 years of data (2000 through 2013) from the National Poison Data System, the researchers found that while these incidents are rare, they are growing quickly. On average, there are 5.90 marijuana exposures per million kids in the age group. But here's the kicker: That rate increased 147.5 percent from 2006 to 2013. Most of that is attributable to states that legalized medical marijuana before 2000. Those areas saw a 609.6 percent percent increase in marijuana exposures; a rate that has accelerated since 2009, the study...

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http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/study-finds-147-percent-increase-in-childhood-marijuana-exposure-20150608

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