Record numbers of young children in the United States are experiencing or running the risk of severe health emergencies through the unwitting ingestion of products containing cannabis, a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics has found.
The report, published in the journal Pediatrics, found a 1,375 percent increase in reported cases of children younger than the age of 6 accidentally eating cannabis-infused products over the five years from 2017 to 2021.
