BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- In the past five years, calls to the Kentucky Poison Center about cannabis have more than doubled, and many of those calls are about kids.
In 2024 almost 40% of cannabis-related calls were about kids younger than 12. The center finds THC gummy products lead to most of the cannabis-related hospitalizations it sees.
Ashley Webb, the director of Kentucky’s poison center says, “Those products are not regulated by the FDA, and it can be difficult to determine the actual dose ingested by a child.”
Cannabis substances can have wide-ranging effects from minor symptoms like drowsiness or vomiting to more serious effects, such as unconsciousness and impaired breathing-requiring hospitalization.
Webb says parents should treat these products just like a medication, keeping them up and out of sight from kids.
Webb also says, “I think with some of these products they’re not as careful with that, or they don’t recognize the need todo the same. These products don’t come in child resistant containers, typically. Especially if you’re buying products off the internet some of them might mimic or look like candy products, which is attractive to adults, but even more attractive to kids.”
If your child ingest THC gummies and they are not showing significant symptoms, you can contact the poison center at 1-800-222-1222.
BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- In the past five years, calls to the Kentucky Poison Center about cannabis have more than doubled, and many of those calls are about kids. In 2024 almost 40% of cannabis-related calls were about kids younger than 12. The center finds THC gummy products lead to most of the cannabis-related hospitalizations it sees. Ashley Webb, the director… Read More
