The number of children, teenagers, and young adults being rushed to hospital owing to cannabis-involved emergencies spiked throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data published on July 13 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
While cannabis-involved emergency department visits had already risen among young people up to the age of 14 prior to 2019, mean weekly cannabis-involved ED visits among all young persons under 25 years old were higher during 2020, 2021, and 2022, the CDC found.
