Edible marijuana: Are minors at risk?

DENVER, Colorado, (WDTN) – In one week, Ohio decides on whether to legalize marijuana and many questions remain.

One of those questions, how legalizing the drug and putting it and other pot products on store shelves would affect young people. 2 NEWS Investigates traveled to Colorado, where marijuana is legal, to find out how they dealt with it.

Marijuana is not just in plant form anymore. You can find pot cookies, marijuana chips and hard candy with THC in it. For stores, it’s more variety for their customers, but for some parents it’s a drug targeting kids.

“The fact that marijuana is being produced in very child friendly items and snacks and candies and sodas. I mean, that is really troubling to not only parents but to a lot of people.”

When marijuana became legal in Colorado, mother of 4, and co-founder of SMART Colorado, Gina...

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