Marijuana poisonings rose sharply among people 65 years of age and older, after Canada legalized the drug according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. In the study, 2,322 ED visits in ...

Emergency medical services and fire department personnel in Washington, D.C., responded to a spike in patients with a suspected synthetic marijuana overdose — taking dozens of people to hospitals ...

While overdoses have continued to drop statewide, cities like Schenectady and Albany are seeing more related to synthetic cannabis, also known as K2 or spice.

Could you get TOO high from smoking weed? Is it possible to overdose on cannabis? Check out today's trippy new video that ...

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. — The story of a woman dying from what one coroner says is an apparent THC overdose in St. John the Baptist Parish is turning heads. If the coroner is correct, her ...

The claim that medical marijuana laws are linked to lower rates of fatal opioid overdoses may be wrong, according to a study published in PNAS. A 2014 study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found ...

Deaths from prescription drug overdoses have spiked dramatically since the 1990s. Now new research suggests legal medical marijuana might contribute to a decrease in those deaths. The Centers for ...

Legalizing cannabis for both medical and recreational use may lead to a decline in daily opioid use among people who inject ...

Two poison control doctors claim to have documented the first known case of death by marijuana overdose, sparking a medical debate over what killed an 11-month-old baby in Colorado two years ago. The ...