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Study: Use of marijuana edibles causing rise in ER visits

AURORA, Colo. (WKRC) - A new study is raising new concerns about edible marijuana use. Researchers studying it in Colorado since it went on sale for use in 2014 have discovered emergency room visits have gone up. The study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that inhaled cannabis leads to more emergency room visits overall, but it's the visits connected to edibles with it that are raising serious concerns. That's because edibles that are connected to ER visits for psychiatric and cardiovascular symptoms. The authors of this study say even though edible cannabis made up just 0.3 percent of sales of marijuana in Colorado from 2014 to 2016, 10 percent of the ER visits at the hospital in Colorado where this study was conducted were due to edibles. Researchers say it's hard to know exact dosing, but there is slower absorption when edibles are taken in compared to smoking marijuana, so it's possible people take in more THC, the active ingredient, with edibles than in some other forms. The Marijuana Policy Project told Local 12, "Products need to be clearly labeled so consumers know proper dosage."