If you were groggily fumbling to make your child's breakfast in the morning, are you sure you wouldn't mistake a Pot Tart for a Pop Tart? Such child-friendly marijuana edibles were the subject a much-discussed editorial by Stanford Professors Robert MacCoun and Michelle Mello in yesterday's New England Journal of Medicine. Taking note of cases in which children have required emergency room care after ingesting these newly legal products, MacCoun and Mello call for stronger regulations, including clearer labeling, standardized serving sizes, child-resistant packaging and a cap on the potency of the marijuana in edibles.
