{"id":2590,"date":"2021-11-23T16:04:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T16:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1179432401"},"modified":"2021-11-23T16:04:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T16:04:54","slug":"connecticut-officials-warn-of-fentanyl-laced-marijuana-green-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=2590","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Officials Warn of Fentanyl-Laced Marijuana – Green Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Less than five months after recreational use of marijuana was legalized in Connecticut, the state Department of Public Health reported its concern about a series of overdose incidents among people who say they have only smoked cannabis, reported local media.<\/p>\n

According to a Nov. 15 bulletin from the New England HIDTA, between July 2021 and Oct. 26, public-health authorities reported 39 instances of patients who \u201cexhibited opioid overdose symptoms\u201d and needed shots of naloxone (the overdose-reversal drug). However, they denied using opioids.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Connecticut Is About to Become the 18th State to Legalize Recreational Marijuana<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

One area hit hardest<\/b><\/h2>\n

Several of these in early October all occurred in Plymouth, Connecticut, Forbes reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first case we\u2019ve actually had laboratory contamination of marijuana with fentanyl,\u201d Susan Logan, an epidemiologist at the Connecticut Department of Public Health, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who have overdosed have said they thought they were only taking marijuana and then they needed to be administered Naloxone in order to reverse their overdose,\u201d Logan added.<\/p>\n

\u201cDealers are trying to compete and make their marijuana more potent than what you can buy, say over the counter,\u201d Brian Foley, spokesman for the Department of Emergency Services said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople need to know that if they\u2019re buying marijuana through illegitimate means that this is a possibility,\u201d Foley concluded.<\/p>\n

CT and cannabis<\/b><\/h2>\n

In June, Connecticut became the 18th state in the union to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes. The law allows adults 21 and older to possess up to 1.5 ounces of cannabis.<\/p>\n

The sale of recreational marijuana is planned to kick off in May 2022.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This story originally appeared on Benzinga Less than five months after recreational use of marijuana was legalized in Connecticut, the state Department of Public Health reported its concern about a series of overdose incidents among people who say they have only smoked cannabis, reported local media. According to a Nov. 15 bulletin from the New England HIDTA, between July 2021 and Oct. 26, public-health authorities reported 39 instances of patients who \u201cexhibited opioid overdose symptoms\u201d and needed shots of naloxone (the overdose-reversal drug). However, they denied using opioids. RELATED: Connecticut Is About to Become the 18th State to Legalize Recreational Marijuana One area hit hardest Several of these in… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/connecticut-officials-warn-of-fentanyl-laced-marijuana-green-entrepreneur.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}