UNITED STATES.- A 11 year old boy of Staten Island was hospitalized after swallowing drops of THC that he mistook for candy in one super Bowl Party, and now her mother urges the mayor to do something to prevent potential tragedies involving groceries.
Veronica Gill noticed that his son Ryan“acted really weird” after coming home from a gathering at his friends’ house in New Springville, he told the NY Post.
My son was sitting on the couch with me and he started to get distracted. At first, I thought he was faking it because his eyes widened and he laughed. Then he would tune out again for a minute, then he would open his eyes and laugh,” he said.
Gill was concerned when the little boy’s laughter suddenly turned into cries for help and her body began to shake.
“He started saying ‘Mom, I feel so weird.’ She was hearing voices. Then she started shaking…I thought she maybe she was having a seizure”.
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Overdose with marijuana gummies
In a panic, the mother of three rushed Ryan to an urgent care center, where his racing heart prompted doctors to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room at University of California Medical Center. Richmond.
After Ryan underwent a series of tests, including a computed Tomography, a urine test revealed that he had ingested a considerable amount of THC in the last few hours.
I was literally in shock. She couldn’t believe it,” Gill recalled.
Gill was further upset to discover that her son had taken the weed-infused gummies from a candy drawer at the party planners’ house.
“When [mi amiga] he checked the drawer again after we told him what happened, he realized that the candy had THC in it. He called us crying hysterically,” Gill said. However, Gill wasn’t mad at her friend, who told her, “I have no idea how the hell this got into my house.”
Similarity to children’s sweets
Instead, she was enraged that grocery packages like the ones her son ate they may resemble those of regular candy brands and they only have minor THC warnings that buyers may overlook.
Many people have said ‘How did I not know [que eran comestibles]?’ And I tell them, ‘I wouldn’t know.’ People who use those things know. People who don’t don’t even think to search [advertencias de THC]Gil said. “I don’t really blame the lady of the house at all, because she is also a victim of this packaging.”
Ryan spent the night in the hospital, resting and drinking fluids while the symptoms subsided, his mother said.
Increase in cases of poisoning by cannabis products in minors
The number of calls to poison control centers for abuse and misuse of cannabis products in Americans ages 6 to 18 it has skyrocketed, from 510 cases in 2000 to 1,761 in 2020, according to a recent study published in Clinical Toxicology.
New York has only four licensed stores, but more than 1,400 illegal street vendors in New York City are selling unregulated goods, with little police intervention.
Gill pleaded with Mayor Adams to crack down on the illicit cannabis sellersespecially those whose products are marketed to children, something the mayor promised to do during a press conference at town hall on December 15.
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