Marijuana-Related Hospitalizations Spike in Colo. After Passage of Recreational Pot Law: Report
Hospitals and treatment centers in Colorado have seen an increase in marijuana use among patients since recreational pot became legal in January 2014, while weed-related arrests have predictably plummeted significantly, a new report reveals.
While the author of an 147-page study released by the Colorado Department of Public Safety on Monday cautions that it’s too soon to truly measure the impact of the state’s first-in-the-nation recreational marijuana laws, statistics so far suggest that facilities have seen an explosion with respect to patients who have either been hospitalized as a result of weed.
Between 2001 and 2009, around 809 of each 100,000 hospitalizations recorded within Colorado involved patients who had pot-related problems, according to the report. For the period between 2014 and June 2015, the statistic surged to 2,413 hospitalizations per 100,000.
Phone calls made to poison control centers involving marijuana exposure increased as well, from 44 in 2006 to...
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