Welcome to 2014! This year I will be focusing a lot of study and writing on the topic of strengthening the home. It's apparent that the currents in our country continue to shift, now more than ever, moving forcefully against parents and churches trying to raise healthy and Godly children. To that point, what a wonderful thing to see one of the New Year's big news headlines being that Colorado has legalized pot. Here's some excerpts from an article from the Journal of the American Medical Assoc. about the dangers of pot ingestion by children.
Dr. Levy reports that nationwide
rates of adolescent marijuana use are climbing rapidly. “The skyrocketing
rates of adolescent marijuana use indicate that we are losing an important
public health battle and we have a lot of work to do if we want to reverse
these trends.
“The legalization of recreational
marijuana, especially the solid and liquid-infused forms permitted in
Washington, will provide children greater access to cookies, candies, brownies,
and beverages that contain marijuana,” write William Hurley, M.D., from the
University of Washington and Washington Poison Center and Suzan Mazor, M.D.,
from Seattle Children’s Hospital.
“Ingestion of marijuana results
in the absorption of delta-9-tetrahydrocannibinol (THC) and stimulation of
cannabinoid receptors in the central nervous system. This produces
stimulation with hallucinations and illusions followed by sedation,” the
authors state. The authors recommend additional training for
emergency medicine, pediatric emergency medicine and primary care pediatric
physicians to recognize and manage these toxic reactions.
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