Pediatric Poisoning - Every Brain Matters

States, where marijuana was legalized or decriminalized, have continued to show a concomitant rise in pediatric cannabis exposures and increases in emergency department visits or hospitalizations despite attempts to place in opaque, child-resistant packaging. A doubling of events every 2.1 years was seen in Michigan.
In reported single substance exposures to the Michigan poison center, marijuana ingestion was the most common route of exposure (76.8%) with edibles products being the most prevalent (69.4%) at a median exposure age of 5 years old.
Both ingestion and inhalational exposures can lead to anxiety, panic attacks, psychosis, altered mental status, dangerous behaviors, and a number of other health and psychiatric effects.