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Children love them.

"We are seeing increases in exposure to marijuana in young pediatric patients, and they have more severe symptoms than we typically associate with marijuana," said lead researcher Dr. George Sam Wang, a medical toxicology fellow at the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center in Denver.

Some of the symptoms recorded included unusual drowsiness, unstable balance to more serious cases in which one 5-year-old boy had trouble breathing.

Eight children were hospitalized, two in the intensive care unit, though all recovered within a few days, Wang said. By contrast, in four years preceding the policy change, the Denver-area hospital had no such cases.

Empirically, the ingestion of marijuana produces a condition colloquially called "the munchies" which increases the desire to eat more cookies, compounding the intoxication.

Regarding children consuming marijuana cookies and cakes and candies, I contend the problem is just beginning. Get ready for a generation of very forgetful youngsters.