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Originally Posted by Dion
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Sensationalistic bull####.
Physiologically impossible to overdose on marijuana.
The kid was probably asleep.
But, do we expect anything else from an organization who's funding is directly related to them showing the harm of drugs? Of course not.
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Marijuana-Related Exposures. OK, these actually do involve marijuana—specifically, marijuana accidentally ingested by little kids (5 or younger). There was a "268 percent increase" in such cases in the three years after 2009, compared to the three years before then. In less impressive raw numbers, that's an increase from about five to about 18 kids a year in the entire state, which suggests that adults are generally being pretty careful about keeping their marijuana edibles away from children.
Drug Treatment. Marijuana-related drug treatment admissions fell from 7,194 in 2009 to 6,082 in 2013. Here is how the report describes that 15 percent drop: "Marijuana treatment data from Colorado in years 2005–2013 doesn't appear to demonstrate a definitive trend."
Crime. The RMHIDTA says people who claimed that crime dropped in Denver in the first six months after recreational sales began are wrong. "Actually," says the report, "reported crime in Denver increased 6.7 percent during that time period" (January through June of this year, compared to the same months in 2013). That is true overall, but there were drops in several kinds of violent crime, including murder (38 percent), robbery (5 percent), and forcible sex offenses (19 percent).
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https://reason.com/blog/2014/08/15/d...l-to-show-that
Sensationalistic, misleading, bull####.