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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 A teen died after eating pot. Guess how many died from alcohol poisoning? 🌿A teen died after eating pot. Guess how many died from alcohol poisoning?
In 2014, a college student vacationing in Colorado ate a marijuana cookie and several hours later jumped to his death from a hotel balcony. The tragedy served as, among other things, a reminder that ingesting marijuana is an inherently less predictable experience than smoking it.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued a brief examining the case. It doesn't tell us anything we don't already know -- it ends with nothing more than a call for "improved public health messaging to reduce the risk for overconsumption of THC," the active ingredient in marijuana. But that hasn't stopped a slew of new news articles describing the "chilling details" of the so-called "marijuana overdose."
But "overdose" isn't the issue here -- tellingly, the CDC brief doesn't use the word at all. The Colorado student didn't OD on weed; he jumped to his death after consuming it. People aren't thought to overdose...
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