Avoid couchlock! Four things to know about cannabis pharmacology

  With medical marijuana now legal in 23 states and the District of Columbia — and recreational weed available in Colorado and Washington State — knowing the pharmacokinetics of THC has never been more important, both for consumers and the physicians who must counsel and treat them. Recently, the New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd got into trouble in Denver when she overdosed on a cannabis candy bar and experienced 8 hours of paranoia and couchlock. My recent Emergency Medicine News column describing 4 things Maureen should have known about weed before venturing to the “mile high city” has been posted online. You can read it here.
Source: The Poison Review - Category: Toxicology Authors: Tags: Medical cannabis edibles marijuana overdose pharmacokinetcis pharmacokinetics Source Type: news