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From:
leroysoetoro@bho-rejected.com
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article184929293.html
Marijuana is one of the most widespread drugs used in America today.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about 22 million
Americans consume marijuana in any given month, and about one in five
Americans regularly uses the drug, according to a study from Marist
College.
The government considers marijuana dangerous. It depresses the central
nervous system and affects the chemistry of the brain - yet there has
never been a report of someone actually dying just from consuming too much marijuana, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. That is,
perhaps until now.
Doctors in Colorado have reported the first-ever known case of a human
being dying from an overdose of marijuana - in this case, an 11-month-old
baby boy.
The results were published in the journal “Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine,” and was co-authored by Colorado doctors Thomas Nappe
and Christopher Hoyte, who worked on the child’s medical team.
The 11-month-old male was admitted to the emergency department after
having a seizure, according to the study. Over the previous several days,
the child was “irritable” and had been retching and lethargic, the child’s guardian told the doctors. They examined the child and looked at his
history and found him to be an otherwise perfectly normal and healthy boy.
The boy was unresponsive in the hospital and kept getting worse. The
doctors intubated him to keep him breathing after his nervous system began shutting down.
Then his heart stopped. The doctors tried everything - infusions, CPR,
various medicines - but it was no use, and he died about one hour later,
the report says.
After the boy’s death, the doctors tried to figure out what went wrong.
The boy had presented with all the symptoms of a condition called
myocarditis, where the heart muscles become inflamed. After looking at his blood, they found what they claim is the culprit - evidence of THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana,
according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
They looked and looked for any other factors that may have caused the
child’s condition, but couldn’t find anything, they said.
“The only thing that we found was marijuana. High concentrations of
marijuana in his blood. And that’s the only thing we found,” Hoyte told
KUSA. “The kid never really got better. And just one thing led to another
and the kid ended up with a heart stopped. And the kid stopped breathing
and died.”
The doctors wrote that upon reviewing the patient’s history, they
discovered “an unstable motel-living situation and parental admission of
drug possession, including cannabis.” They pointed to several other cases
where patients had experienced myocarditis after smoking marijuana -
although all the patients in those cases recovered.
Based on the timing of his symptoms, doctors concluded that the child had consumed a lot of marijuana very quickly, at one time, and didn’t get sick
from being exposed to cannabis over time, such as from people smoking
around him. They wrote that urine screening for marijuana may be useful if other patients come in with the same symptoms and doctors can’t find a
cause.
“In the age of legalized marijuana, children are at increased risk of
exposure, mainly through ingestion of food products, or ‘edibles,’” they
wrote.
Still, some doctors were skeptical of the connection, pointing out that
there were still many other possible risk factors that could have caused
the child’s condition. “It’s too much as far as I’m concerned,” Dr. Noah Kaufman, an emergency medicine specialist, told KUSA. “Because that is
saying confidently that this is the first case. ‘We’ve got one!’ And I
still disagree with that.”
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