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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Watch: How the media used one tiny study to wildly exaggerate the threat of marijuana edibles 🌿Watch: How the media used one tiny study to wildly exaggerate the threat of marijuana edibles
Since more states have legalized marijuana for medical and recreational purposes, more studies and news reports have sounded the alarm about children eating pot-infused edibles. But many of the concerns are greatly exaggerated, and are based on highly misleading statistics that make exposures to pot edibles seem much worse than they really are.
The most recent study, which was published in Clinical Pediatrics and reported by various media outlets, found the rate of children 5 and under exposed to marijuana increased by 147.5 percent in the US between 2006 and 2013. That sounds like a huge increase, but it's a very small change in terms of raw numbers: from just under 100 children total in 2006 to almost 250 in 2013.
As pediatric health services researcher Aaron Carroll points out in the video above, this means that very few children — literally a...
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