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The Colorado pot keeps stirring

tokeofthetown.com

The number of Colorado children treated for accidental pot consumption has doubled.  The Global Post reports numbers have reached the double digits. 

Arapahoe House Denver-area facilities have seen a 66 percent increase in the number of teens being treated for cannabis abuse.

Kevin Sabet is the president of Smart Approaches to Marijuana.  He says the brakes need to be put on the marijuana industry. 

"When we have hospitalizations and burns and deaths, we need to stop many of these products from being sold," Sabet commented.

Mason Tvert is the pro-cannabis Marijuana Policy Project spokesman.  He says trying to draw conclusions with less than one year of data is irresponsible.

In a related article, The Atlantic reports a law suit brought by Nebraska and Oklahoma against Colorado for legalizing pot has not created a dangerous gap in the federal drug control system, but merely exposed it.