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Originally Posted by Slighted
haven't deep dove on any of this, but i think its kind of bunk to talk about how hospitals are receiving more "marijuana related incidents" as a result of legalization when they quite probably were receiving the exact same number of visits they just weren't being told the truth of the incident due to the legality.
now people are more honest with doctors about their marijuana use so of course the sheer # is increasing.
Seems entirely reasonable to me to think that with legalization that people who would otherwise have avoided pot will now give it a try, and a lot of those people are folks who will think that smoking is unsavory or unhealthy, but hey, eating a brownie isn't so bad, and hey, this thing doesn't seem to be working I'd better have another one, or two, and then whoopsie, hospital time. Pretty sure we've had journalists document this, albeit short of the hospital.