CDC Says “Marijuana Can Be A Food-borne Illness Factor”
The upi.com website reported that U.S. health officials are pointing to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity Weekly Report, which found that pot “can be a potential contaminant and be a factor in food-borne illnesses.” The report highlighted an incident where elementary teachers in Los Angeles had purchased brownies from a street vendor. Upon eating the brownies, they felt unusual symptoms that were neurological and gastrointestinal, prompting two of them to go to a doctor. The CDC report concludes that the investigation found cannabinoids, which is “a group of substances that are structurally related to tetrahydrocannabinol, the main psychoactive substance in the marijuana plant,” in a sample batch of the brownies in question. The CDC report also reported that one of the teacher’s urine who went to the doctor was found to test positive for marijuana metabolites.
The CDC’s report concluded by saying that this case highlighted the importance of police departments to work in collaboration with health officials in a rapid manner, including the prompt “testing of clinical specimens after symptom onset.”
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