People who consume marijuana edibles may be ingesting unsafe levels because they don’t feel the immediate high, researcher says.
The market for cannabis edibles is growing. According to a, edibles spending in Canada and the United States topped $1 billion in 2017 and is projected to grow more than $4.1 billion by 2022.
One of the major limitations of the study is that it is observational, meaning that it does not prove that use of marijuana edibles is the exact cause of psychosis or causes an exacerbation of psychiatric symptoms, or some other illness.
Still, the concerns about marijuana's link to psychiatric ER visits should be taken seriously, Monte says. The findings come on the heels of aciting that daily use of high potency marijuana may be linked to higher rates of psychosis.
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