Momto2boys973 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 3:58 pm
Many people fell for the pro-marijuana arguments that tended to exaggerate the benefits and minimize the drawbacks.
I agree that it should be kept out of reach of children. But many people kept hearing how good marijuana was for pretty much every condition under the Sun (even if not fully tested) and how safe it is (even more than actually tested medications) that they got that idea. And then it became legalized, further proving these 2 points.
Pjmm wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 1:45 pm
I can’t read the whole thing but you’d think by now people would know to, idk, maybe put their edibles out of reach. Or explain to kids that like wine this is for adults only. But I guess they don’t.
The issue isn't the safety of marijuana, it's that a package of gummies could contain 10-20x the maximum safe dosage for a person if you ate the whole package and kids being kids if they find a whole package of gummies they're probably going to eat the whole package. I'm a cannabis advocate but I don't like edibles that look like candy. I use edibles and you can't really find any that don't look like something innocuous so we keep ours locked in a safe that the kids don't have access to. My kids are teens but I still don't trust that they wouldn't go into my bedside drawer, see what looks like a chocolate bar and break off a few pieces for themselves or see a bag of gummies and eat a few. Since I take 1/3 of a piece one of them taking even a whole piece would cause them to be really damn high and sick.
In Ontario edibles that are sold at the government stores are required to be sold in plain packaging and I think the gummies are sold in individual packages. It's a huge waste of packaging but it does keep kids a little safer when they have parents who leave things lying around.
There's a reason prescription medications are required to be put in child resistant packaging. The same should be legally required for marijuana. A kid finding a bottle of clonazepam and eating them (they're sweet and kind of look like candy) would have a much worse outcome than eating a package of gummies. . Ironically, I can tell you that marijuana is a hell of a lot safer than clonazepam but 10 years ago it was legal and it was illegal for a person to use marijuana derivatives to control anxiety and panic disorder.