{"id":2049,"date":"2016-02-25T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T03:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/25\/colorado-tourists-cant-hold-their-pot-keep-ending-up-in-the-hospital\/"},"modified":"2016-02-25T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T03:04:48","slug":"colorado-tourists-cant-hold-their-pot-keep-ending-up-in-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/25\/colorado-tourists-cant-hold-their-pot-keep-ending-up-in-the-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado tourists can’t hold their pot, keep ending up in the hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DENVER \u2014 Colorado’s tourists aren’t just buying weed now that it’s legal \u2014 they’re ending up in emergency rooms at rates far higher than residents, according to a new study.<\/p>\n

Doctors reviewed marijuana-related emergency-room admissions at a hospital near Denver International Airport during 2014, when the sale of recreational pot became legal. The results will be published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Smugglers hide 2,500 lbs. of weed in fake carrot shipment<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The physicians found that the rate of emergency-room visits possibly related to marijuana doubled among out-of-state residents in the first year of recreational pot sales. The rate went from 85 per 10,000 visits in 2013 to 168 per 10,000 visits in 2014. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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DENVER \u2014 Colorado’s tourists aren’t just buying weed now that it’s legal \u2014 they’re ending up in emergency rooms at rates far higher than residents, according to a new study. Doctors reviewed marijuana-related emergency-room admissions at a hospital near Denver … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}