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We\u2019ve all been reading the headlines about cannabis-related ER visits climbing. It sounds alarming until you look at what\u2019s actually happening in those emergency rooms. People aren\u2019t dying. They aren\u2019t physically ill. What\u2019s landing them in the ER is panic \u2014 they got too high, and they\u2019re freaking out about what\u2019s happening to their own body. That\u2019s a very different problem than the headlines imply, and it points to a very different solution. There is a small percentage of people who have physical reactions to cannabis, but throwing up is not death. <\/p>\n
Back in the late 70\u2019s maybe early \u201980s, my mother went to an advertising party with her husband. Before she started her own ad sales company, my Mom oversaw all sales for an agency. There was a poster as the invitation that made a nod to pot brownies, kind of a coded, old-school warning nobody actually understood, not unlike that Seth Rogen bit in Studio when he points to the \u201cold-school buffet,\u201d where most people don\u2019t realize that means that drugs are infused in the food. Needless to say, nobody should eat 6 of those mushroom-infused brownies.<\/p>\n
Back to my Mom. They were told about the pot brownies, but they had zero idea how many to eat. They were even so excited they took a few and wrapped them up to put in my Mom\u2019s purse for later. After indulging, they left the party in Georgetown and went to the bar, and her husband started feeling strange. Really strange. He was starting to panic. My mom suggested they just stay the night at the hotel and sleep it off, as there was no reason to rush anywhere. But he insisted on going home. So they got in the car and headed down 495. It was only a thirty-minute ride.<\/p>\n
My mom was a small person. Her husband was a big guy. Somewhere on that highway, he turned to her and said, \u201cOh my god, I think I\u2019m having a heart attack. I need to go to the hospital.\u201d She pulled over, climbed across him, and pushed him into the passenger seat so she could drive, screaming, \u201cDo not open the door.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the hospital, a young intern came out to see them. Her husband explained everything \u2014 the brownies, all of it \u2014 and told the doctor, \u201cListen, I\u2019m not a pot smoker.\u201d The doctor looked at him, clapped him on the shoulder, and said, \u201cWell, you are now, buddy.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was fine. He wasn\u2019t having a heart attack. He was having a panic attack brought on by a dose he wasn\u2019t prepared for. <\/p>\n
That story is decades old, but it\u2019s the same story showing up in ER intake rooms today. The rise in cannabis-related ER visits isn\u2019t a crisis of the drug itself \u2014 it\u2019s a crisis of people not knowing what they\u2019re taking, how much, or what it will feel like when it hits. That\u2019s not a pharmacology problem. That\u2019s an information gap.<\/p>\n
And the gap isn\u2019t just about dosage \u2014 it\u2019s about how we talk about cannabis at all. I was at a dinner party recently where someone said, \u201cYou can\u2019t get stoned here because we have young kids,\u201d while everyone around the table was drinking freely. Nobody blinked at that. We\u2019ve built an entire social script around alcohol \u2014 how much is too much, what a hangover means, when to call it a night \u2014 and basically no equivalent script for cannabis, even as people use cannabis more than alcohol these days and data is pointing to weed being better for you than alcohol.<\/p>\n
Changing that starts with education, not stigma. It starts with normal, matter-of-fact conversations \u2014 the same way we teach people what to expect from a glass of wine versus a shot of tequila. And it starts at home.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We\u2019ve all been reading the headlines about cannabis-related ER visits climbing. It sounds alarming until you look at what\u2019s actually happening in those emergency rooms. People aren\u2019t dying. They aren\u2019t physically ill. What\u2019s landing them in the ER is panic \u2014 they got too high, and they\u2019re freaking out about what\u2019s happening to their own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7045031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12034],"tags":[13459,13786,13785],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7045029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angel-investor","tag-cannabis","tag-gal","tag-gotham"],"yoast_head":"\n
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