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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Study: More Colorado tourists make pot-related ER visits than locals 🌿Study: More Colorado tourists make pot-related ER visits than locals
Visitors to Colorado are turning up at the emergency room with marijuana-related issues in higher rates than people who live here, according to a study by the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
The study, which appears in the New England Journal of Medicine on Feb. 25, found that the number of marijuana-related emergency room visits to the University of Colorado Hospital doubled among those from out-of-state from 2013 to 2014, while remaining steady for residents.
The study can’t positively peg marijuana use as the cause of the visit, said Andrew Monte, assistant professor of emergency medicine and toxicology at the CU School of Medicine.
“Realistically, these visits could have marijuana mentioned at one point if they came and had a heart attack and said they did smoke a week ago, that would be reflected,” Monte said.
Visitors to University of Colorado Hospital from outside the state with marijuana...
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