Can You Be Allergic to Marijuana?

The answer is a resounding yes. But the legal landscape complicates diagnosis and treatment.

About seven years ago, Kathryn Wick was going about her job as a child crimes detective in Texas when she entered a house that literally took her breath away. “It felt like my throat was just like shut completely off – I couldn’t breathe,” says Wick, 30. She left the scene and went to a hospital, where she was treated with two EpiPens and a hefty dose of the severe allergy medication Prednisone. "I come to find out," Wick says, "they found a whole bunch of marijuana in the house." Still, she brushed her reaction off as a fluke and went back to work.

Then it happened again – this time, at a house on the other side of the county. “As soon as I entered the door, I was done,” Wick says. After that, any time she was around pot or even near anyone who had been...

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