Kids and cannabis don’t mix
Intending to spread child safety awareness with cannabis products, Ray County Coalition (RCC) members and Missouri Poison Control Center (MPCC) community outreach coordinator and guest speaker Amanda Ruback discussed unwanted consequences.
She hosted a presentation via Zoom last week with RCC members to raise awareness of the cannabis products, prescriptions or over-the-counter medications on hand.
As the main discussion was on marijuana, the group discussed how secondhand marijuana smoke also contains tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the compound responsible for most of marijuana’s psychoactive effects (or the “high”). THC can be passed to infants and children through secondhand smoke and people exposed to secondhand marijuana smoke can experience psychoactive effects, such as feeling high, according to www. cdc.gov.
Children exposed to THC are potentially at risk for negative health effects, said Ruback.
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