Monday, May 29, 2017

When Legal Reefer is Followed by Increase in E.R. Visits for Kids

Here's a contribution from Lotho.  NBC:  ER Visits for Kids Rise Significantly After Pot Legalized in Colorado

While it's not the Rockhouse purpose to slash the article, there are problems with it and the biggest is blaming marijuana exclusively but the headline is modified lower in the article.

They found 3,443 ER visits by 13- to 21-year-olds to six ERs and urgent care centers over that time. Two-thirds involved psychiatric symptoms, Wang said. More than half also had evidence of other drugs in their systems as well, including alcohol, amphetamines and cocaine.

- NBC

Therefore, the Rockhouse throws out half the evidence on that basis.  It's also not clear if there's a distinction between real and synthetic marijuana, the latter of which is an exceptionally dangerous and unpredictable drug.

Moreover, there's no mention of any deeper study of which kids were manifesting psychiatric symptoms prior to this admission.


However ...

The children got the drug from parents, grandparents, neighbors, friends, babysitters or other relatives. Most of the time, the kids ate food containing marijuana. Their symptoms included drowsiness, dizziness, vomiting, agitation, dangerous heart rates and seizures.

- NBC

In this circumstance, the Rockhouse can easily believe high-test marijuana could have such an effect in overdosing a kid.  Even an adult will get dizzy if that adult disrespects the ganja.


There's a self-promoting segue (sort of) in this since there was mention earlier in a different context of candy which has a THC payload.  (Ithaka:  So then I Went Down to See the Terrorists)

Notwithstanding the title, the primary focus is on making things which are attractive to children and which carry a THC payload.  No kid stops with one bite and ganja in that form is not going to come on that fast anyway so there's plenty of time for that kid to eat enough to get sick from it.


Therefore, the Rockhouse agrees and we don't.  In terms of mixed-drug situations, that kid is in one wildly out-of-control drug situation and there's a much bigger problem to solve.  However, the other half were not and it was probably real reefer delivered in candy form which delivered it.

The Rockhouse is pissed because the always rule for the Hosea Avenue Freak Foundation was we never give anything to children and yet now these ganja corpofreaks are breaking that with reckless abandonment of any concern for children.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Most of the Hosea posse fits the demographic in the study of 13 to 21
You always dismiss any shade thrown on your precious ganja.
And you use supposition to discredit actual data
No worries you still believe accidents are not caused by ganja users

Unknown said...

I delivered the response straight-up and anything preceded by 'you always' doesn't merit a logical response. You obviously have no idea what I think even after I've said many times I don't drive when I'm stoned.

Anonymous said...

Using a lone example to prove a point is as they say not statistically important.
You have in the past stated that that stoned drives do not increase accidents.
You dismiss all mixed drug use as kids wildly out of control.
And the other half are dismissed as eating candy forms. For some reason that eliminates those from the statistics.
I see you also don't address the comment that the was mostly under the age of 18 many were under the under of 16 which was beneficial since they could not drive.
And I have seen you drive literally 1000s of time high on multiple drugs.

I believe I was 14 when you decided that you would never do drugs again and gave me a plastic box with several tabs of mescaline and many rolled joints
Sorry if the facts of your past do not fit your present situation.
They are not fake news or alternate facts. They are real history

Unknown said...

Continue to distort the results to suit your own beliefs.

You don't sound like a scientist but a nagging wife.

Sorry if the facts of today don't fit your bullshit judgment of me.

Anonymous said...

Then quit distorting the truth to fit your views of today


Science lol
You still is some strange science that the pot and cigarette smoke are not responsible for your lungs.
I don't judge you just fact check you