Doctors Who Reported Child Marijuana Fatality Now Backing Off Claim

Now that more than 22 million people report using marijuana in any given month, the potential health benefits (and risks) of the plant are coming under more scrutiny than ever.

A frequently cited note in marijuana advocates’ fight to reschedule marijuana on the Controlled Substances List is the big “zero” next to the plant in the “overdose fatalities” field. Weed has never killed anyone — at least until this week, claimed two doctors in Colorado.

But now, they may be walking those claims back a bit.

A case report published in the August issue of the medical journal Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine reported the first death attributed solely to cannabis toxicity in world history. There has been tremendous backlash against the report from doctors, researchers, and cannabis advocates due to doubts that cannabis could be the main contributing factor, as previous research states that an absurdly large amount of marijuana (1,500 pounds) would have to be consumed in a relatively short amount of time (15 minutes) to overdose on the plant. Unfortunately, it was an 11-month-old male whose death is at the center of the controversy.

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