Marijuana edibles in spotlight in Colorado after student’s death
Throughout Dr. Scott Bentz’s career in emergency medicine, marijuana wasn’t something he much worried about.
Perhaps a person a month would come in feeling panicky after smoking pot. A sedative and a quiet room usually did the trick.
“It’s the easiest emergency medicine case you’re going to see,” said Bentz, the medical director of emergency services at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver.
And then came the day a man arrived in the emergency room so sedated and breathing so slowly after eating a marijuana-infused edible that he was nearly comatose.
Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, left,and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, right, talk to the media near Fort Hood’s main gate, Thursday, April 3, 2014, in Fort Hood, Texas. A soldier opened fire Wednesday on fellow service members at the Fort Hood military base, killing three people and wounding 16 before committing suicide. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)