The cases of accidental ingestion of cannabis candies and baked goods among small children increased 1,375% in five years, according to a study in the journal Pediatrics.
in Springfield, Illinois, is the lead author on the study. Tweet's curiosity on the topic piqued in 2019, when she started a fellowship at the Illinois Poison Control Center.
"The big buzz at that time was that cannabis was going to be legalized for recreational, adult use January 1st, 2020" in Illinois, she said. State marijuana laws have been changing rapidly in the past decade, and thein 37 states and for recreational use in 21 states and Washington, D.C. Tweet was curious how recreational use had gone in other places, so she looked at studies from other states that had already legalized the drug. Onedocumented that the number of children 10 years and under accidentally exposed to marijuana products rose between 2009 and 2015.
So Tweet wanted to know if this would also happen nationally, as more states legalized the drug. She was most concerned about kids 5-years-old and younger, a particularly vulnerable age for accidental poisoning. "This age group accounts for about 40% of all calls to poison centers nationally," says Tweet."They can get into things, and you can't really rationalize with them" about dangers.Marijuana edibles are made to look like sweets, she adds:"They think it looks like candy, and maybe, they just want to eat it."
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