Children are small humans who like to eat things. Sometimes, a child will put a thing that is bad or not food into their mouths.<\/p>\n
Adults, it turns out, also like to eat things \u2014 sometimes, things that are good for the adult but bad for the child. There are other times that a child human will want to eat or try to eat something an adult human also wants to eat, but shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
And that\u00a0is where chaos ensues and when our society begins to collapse inwards onto itself \u2014 and how specious and baseless assumptions about marijuana edibles become official government policy.<\/p>\n
Increasingly across the country,\u00a0edibles<\/a>\u00a0are becoming a third rail, either strictly regulated in a manner that resembles long-overdue restrictions on tobacco marketing, or banned outright as a concession towards the prohibition set.<\/p>\n Not only are these restrictions knee-jerks rooted in fear and paranoia rather than data, they are potentially causing real harm to marijuana patients with a real need for marijuana in an appealing edible form.<\/p>\n But much more than that, they are demonstrations of how far anti-marijuana zeal can carry government towards a prohibition mindset in the legalization era \u2014 the cannabis equivalent of a plastic-straw ban, if only curly and bright-colored straws were banned.<\/p>\n In Washington, the state Liquor and Cannabis Board has announced that it will \u201creevaluate\u201d its rules governing edible cannabis products. The problem,\u00a0according to the Seattle Times<\/a>, is that some marijuana products on the market may appeal to children. Some products must be resubmitted to the state for approval by Jan. 1, but it appears that most edibles sold in many dispensaries will be outlawed as of next April 3.<\/p>\n The state already has a blanket ban on cannabis products that are \u201cespecially appealing to children,\u201d according to the paper, but apparently this does not go far enough \u2014 and Washington marijuana retailers currently sell marijuana-infused hard candies and \u201cgummy type\u201d products.<\/p>\n For now, according to regulators, baked goods that are not cookies and drinks that resemble, say, sodas will be allowed. As for chocolates, mints, baked goods that are cookies, they will be approved on a case-by-case basis. Whether they are approved will \u201cdepend on factors like frosting, sprinkles\u201d and their color.<\/p>\n Over in Utah,\u00a0terminally ill patients were earlier<\/a>\u00a0this year granted the \u201cright to try\u201d \u201cmedical-grade cannabis,\u201d so long as it was not in \u201cedible or gummy\u201d form.\u00a0And this month\u2019s landmark agreement<\/a>\u00a0between the backers of a popular medical marijuana measure and the state\u2019s Mormon-dominated political power structure also banned edibles outright \u2014 that is, if it survives the state Legislature.<\/p>\n There, lawmakers will get an earful from Drug Safe Utah and its bankroller, a real-estate developer on a jihad to ensure that medical cannabis in no way appeals to children. So committed to this notion is real estate mogul Walter Plumb III that he\u2019s spent more than $200,000 of his own money already to shape policy and suggested to\u00a0the Salt Lake Tribune<\/a>\u00a0that no human under 25 should use cannabis in any form.<\/p>\n What factual basis there is for treating cannabis edibles as ticking time bombs just waiting to explode in a young child\u2019s brain seems rooted in a few things, neither of which really justify the reaction. The first is how cigarette companies used cartoons and bright packaging to appeal to children, who \u2014 if addicted at, say, the age of 12 or 13 \u2014were their potential customers for life.<\/p>\n The second is actually marijuana-related.\u00a0From 2000 to 2013, 1,969 cases<\/a>\u00a0involving children younger than 6 who had been exposed to cannabis were reported to American poison control centers, according to a study. About half received some form of medical treatment, and just under 20 percent had to be admitted to a hospital. That\u2019s not good, but it\u2019s also 400 kids over a 13-year span.<\/p>\n In Canada,\u00a0where we have more recent data,<\/a>\u00a0the numbers are similar: In Alberta and Ontario, 582 people under the age of 20 were admitted to an emergency room for \u201ccannabis poisoning.\u201d Of these, 24 were under the age of 5.<\/p>\n The point is not that small kids should eat weed \u2014 they should not. The point is that kids have a strong tendency to put stuff that\u2019s lying around in their mouths, and no amount of government bans appears able to stop that particularly alarming trend despite other common household products killing kids.<\/p>\n Here are some other things that kids also ingest: mouthwash, pesticides, cleaning fluids, and lamp oil.\u00a0All of these have either killed<\/a>\u00a0children or severely damaged their health. Not a single one is illegal and there are no clarion calls in media for them to be more strictly regulated.<\/p>\n Actually, that\u2019s false \u2014 there have been calls to more strictly regulate mouthwash, which has absolutely killed kids,\u00a0but lawmakers were slow to respond.<\/a>\u00a0They should have put a pot leaf on it.<\/p>\n TELL US<\/strong>,\u00a0what are your thoughts on banning certain edibles thought to appeal to children?<\/p>\n The post Edibles Bans Are Based on Paranoia<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Children are small humans who like to eat things. Sometimes, a child will put a thing that is bad or not food into their mouths. Adults, it turns out, also like to eat things \u2014 sometimes, things that are good for the adult but bad for the child. There areContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,216,111,119,687,139,4455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29935,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29934\/revisions\/29935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n
\nRead More: Edibles Bans Are Based on Paranoia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"