Opinion: THC ingestion by young kids highlights the need to tighten inadequate packaging regulations
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, is finding its way into the hands and mouths of young children via products packaged and labeled in ways that bear striking resemblance to famous candy and other snack products known to appeal to children.
Between 2017 and 2019, more than 4,000 calls were made to U.S. poison control centers to report ingestion, inhalation, or other direct physical exposure to marijuana among young children, with nearly half of those calls involving edibles. In the first half of 2021, the number of reported childhood exposures was 2,622.
