Kids’ Marijuana Poisonings in Perspective: Your House Is Full of Hazards  (from @Cannabist)
  • Poison control calls for kids 5 and under per 1 million adult users, 2014
  • Politicians generally aren’t calling for alcohol to be outlawed in order to protect children.
  • The interesting number is marijuana, which has the exact same exposure rate for children as alcohol.
  • Marijuana accounts for only 2.3 of every 1,000 poison control cases for kids 10 and younger in Colorado, according to the JAMA study.
  • At the national level, kids are much more likely to be poisoned by any number of common household products , like diaper cream, toothpaste, or energy drinks, than they are to be poisoned by marijuana.

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