San Diego County's only children's hospital reports that it continues to see elevated numbers of young patients arriving in its emergency department with cannabis poisoning, echoing findings from a new analysis released last week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Natalie Laub, a pediatrician and cannabis researcher at Rady Children's Hospital, said the situation has been most dramatic for children age 5 and younger.
"We were seeing about 20 kids per year, with the average age being 3 years old," Laub said. "Then COVID happened, and now we're seeing upwards of 80 to 100 children a year in 2020, 2021, 2022."
