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In the places where marijuana is legal, more and more children are being accidentally exposed to their parents’ drugs, a study finds.
The good news is that it is still rare for children to be exposed to marijuana when they are younger than 6 — but the trend is not exactly heading in the right direction.
Marijuana is legal now in more places than ever, and as a result, the number of reports that children have accidentally ingested or inhaled the drug is increasing.
The study, published in the journal Clinical Pediatrics, analyzed figures from the National Poison Data System, which is the clearinghouse for data from all of the poison control centres in the United States. The data in the study covered 2000 to 2013.
The incidents were self-reported, and the data set is probably subject to a certain amount of human error and underreporting. But it gives a...
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