When I returned to my home state of Colorado and saw so many openly smoking pot — and then had a friend at the AHCJ conference have a terrible reaction to too many pot gummy bears — I decided to look into the issue. I found some problems related to the legalization of marijuana. First, legal pot is attracting new and possibly naïve users — creating risks that some don’t bargain for. Second, the public health system’s desire to protect people may be well-intentioned, but regulation and efforts to track the health effects have a ways to go. Edible pot products in particular present the greatest risk to consumers and are not carefully regulated.
