A Massachusetts woman who developed and later died from asthma while working at a marijuana processing facility was the first known work-related asthma death in the nation’s cannabis workforce, a new report from federal health and labor officials said.
In the report, published Friday in a weekly journal of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Labor identified cannabis dust as the allergen that caused the fatal asthma attack.
