Health officials are sifting a new state database for the impact of the 2023 state law allowing the use of recreational marijuana, including a rise in the number of cannabis-related emergency room visits. Photo by Wesley Farnsworth/U.S. Air Force.
Cannabis-related emergency room visits climbed steadily through July 2023, when recreational use was first legalized in Maryland, but have never reached that peak again, fluctuating up and down in the months since.
That was just one of the findings of a new Maryland Health Department interactive dashboard that tracks cannabis-related ER visits, poison control calls and substance use treatment as well as data on marijuana use by age, gender, race and county…