Cannabis Hospitalization of Children – Cannabis | weed | marijuana

Have cannabis-related hospital admissions increased in Canada since legalization? Does this mean the government should lower the country’s THC limits? Maybe ban edibles altogether?

What if I told you that a published study funded by Big Oil shows that half a million birds die each year racing in wind turbines? (That’s true, by the way).

And based on this study, Big Oil is recommending that the government limit the production and use of wind turbines.

You would be suspicious, right?

It has nothing to do with whether you like wind turbines or not. Or whether you trust or distrust big oil companies.

It is obvious that this study would be biased. We need a second opinion for that.

Well, that just happened to cannabis…again.

Cannabis Hospitalization: Don’t Believe the Hype

It is becoming routine for Canada’s public health busybodies and corporate presstitutes to denounce cannabis as a dangerous, toxic and addictive substance.

In this year alone we’ve seen headlines about cannabis causing heart disease, psychosis, depression and even mass shootings.

And hospitalization. This is not our only article on the subject.

Interestingly, we’ve seen very little in the corporate press about cannabinoids blocking COVID-19 infections.

In fact, it’s downright shocking given that the corporate press has been consistently beating the Covid drum for two years. Never question the wisdom of public health or the spineless nature of our modern politicians.

It’s really shocking.

Take this recently published study in the New England Journal of Medicine, for example. Funded by the Canadian Center on Substance Use and Addiction.

In other words, an anti-green tech study funded by a major oil company.

Here’s what they found.

That’s how stupid the “experts” think you are.

The number of hospitalizations for cannabis has increased. For children. At six times!

The rate was fairly consistent across the country. Except in the provinces that allow edibles. In these provinces, the increase was more than double.

It’s almost like strict anti-marketing rules, child-resistant packaging, and the 10-milligram THC limit ZERO Effect.

Of course, the total number of children hospitalized over those seven years was 581. Not bad for a nation of 5.6 million children under the age of 14.

With that in mind, one could argue that Canada’s strict edible approach has been a success. Children always get into trouble. Don’t you remember being a kid?

But public health busybodies see this as a failure. Fewer than 100 children a year in a country of 5.6 million people is too many.

They like to blame Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his “wild west” of private cannabis retailers. What Ontario needs, they will argue, is a crown monopoly. Fewer outlets. Fewer consumer choices.

Forgot one small important fact.

Most of these post-legalization hospitalizations are not due to Doug Ford.

A large majority of these hospital admissions are post-legal because if you showed up at the hospital prior to legalization and said your child got into your cannabis, they would likely take your child away and call the police.

Cannabis was illegal. It wasn’t worth the risk. It’s just cannabis. They will be fine.

Nobody has ever died from cannabis.

The stoners who take their kids to the hospital probably fall into two categories:

a) Serious connoisseurs of 100mg+ homemade edibles who genuinely care about their child.

b) legal 10mg buyers wearing a mask outside in the sun or alone in their cars with the windows open.

Cannabis hospital study is garbage

This cannabis and hospitalization study was not an experimental, randomized control study. It didn’t have to be. They simply reported the facts.

Since legalization, more parents have taken their children to the hospital than before legalization. So I’m assuming these parents don’t understand phytocannabinoids or the endocannabinoid system.

If you’re a parent and your kid eats a lot of THC, pump them up on CBD and wait.

But if you’re a researcher and you want to do science, you need to show cause and effect.

An observational study cannot do that. All research results from this method are rubbish. It just shows the bias of the researcher.

For example, think of a mask. Here’s a list of 49 observational studies showing that everyone who wears a mask helps stop the spread of the flu virus.

This list is what confirmation bias looks like.

Here are a few randomized controlled trials of masking for COVID-19. They found it to be beneficial for older adults and those with compromised immune systems. No one else.

Your opinion, my opinion, who’s holding the gun?

Public health “experts” make recommendations to the government based on waste studies. That makes them busybodies.

These people are not experts. I could trust them to do heart surgery or take an x-ray. But I don’t want them to recommend public order.

They are not experts on what we should be doing.

The problem is that government – the state – is an institutional monopoly on the use of force. It has the legitimate use of violence in society.

This makes the institution particularly dangerous. If not kept under the control of its subjects, it can work against the interests of those subjects.

In fact, this happens every day. And has been for centuries. The history of society is a struggle between civil society and the state.

As long as the state holds the gun, i.e. enforces its monopoly through the threat of violence, we will be a two-class society.

State power only increases at the expense of the freedom and prosperity of its subjects. The bigger the state, the less freedom people have.

History is not kind to those who put their trust in the state. There’s a whole history of violence and bloodshed to prove it.

Public health busybodies are useful propaganda tools. Lenin would call them useful idiots, but I don’t want to be rude.

I prefer idiots.