Pot Death: Teen Leaps 4 Stories After Eating Marijuana Cookie

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Publish Date:
July 23, 2015
Author(s):
  • Rachael Rettner
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Live Science
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Professor Rob MacCoun is quoted in this Live Science article on the hazards of edible marijuana following the recent death of a teenager who jumped to his death following the consumption of a marijuana cookie. 

A teenager in Colorado died after consuming an entire marijuana cookie that contained 6 servings of marijuana’s active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), according to a new report.

The 19-year-old man had received a marijuana cookie from his friend, a 23-year-old who bought the product from a store. The sales clerk instructed the friend to divide the cookie into six pieces, with each piece containing about 10 mg of THC, the recommended serving size established by Colorado authorities.

High doses of THC “can produce serious anxiety attacks and psychoticlike symptoms,” Robert MacCoun, a professor at Stanford Law School, told Live Science in an interview earlier this year. MacCoun previously published a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine expressing concern about the hazards of edible marijuana products for children and teens.

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