Digesting Legal Weed: The Hidden Risks of Eating Marijuana
In 2014, Colorado became the first U.S. state to implement full legal sales of marijuana.
It had never been done before, and there were bound to be some surprises.
One was that, despite the decades of associating pot use with the haze and skunky smell of a joint, nearly half the marijuana sold wasn’t designed to be smoked, but ingested — eaten or drunk.
It makes sense on one level — fewer and fewer people want to smoke tobacco, so why would they want to smoke marijuana when they could consume it some other way? THC can be packaged into anything from tea to lollipops.
“I don’t even know anybody who smokes any more. Not marijuana — I mean cigarettes,” says Bruce Linton, CEO of Canopy Growth, a large medical marijuana growing facility in Smiths Falls, Ont., which plans to produce recreational pot after legalization. “So the probability that they’re going to...
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