Child Hospitalized After Eating Grandma's Marijuana Cookies - as part of the news series by GeoBeats.

A child in California was hospitalized after accidentally eating his grandmother’s medicinal marijuana cookies that she baked to treat her painful cancer symptoms. Police are unsure about how much the child consumed, but after he didn’t wake up for many hours, the family contacted police. They have been cooperative with authorities through this unfortunate incident. The three year old has been treated and released from the hospital, and the grandmother says she will never make the cookies again.

Regarding the effects of marijuana, Dr. Thomas Abramo, professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville said: “Kids may become giddy, constantly repetitive, they may stare off in space, may have some hallucinations,"

Researchers at McLean Hospital studied the long term effects of early marijuana usage on subjects in their twenties who started smoking regularly at age 16. The data showed that chronic smokers had trouble focusing and correcting mistakes. Marijuana is the most used illegal drug in the United States, with a reported 26 million people admitting to using it in 2008.