Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, committee. I also don't have an extensive opening statement. I'd be happy to answer any questions that you have. I'll just say a few brief things. Concerning edibles, as opposed to smokable forms of marijuana, we have recognized a few different concerns

Health committee  Did you say there would be some translation available?

Health committee  Could you help me with that?

Health committee  It was regarding increased rates of use among youth. Because smoking is harder to hide than eating, people would eat more cannabis and have more problems because of that. I think that was the question.

Health committee  Sure. In Colorado, we see a small portion of marijuana users who use only edibles, but the vast majority smoke. This goes for adolescents, high school students as well, in our surveys there. For the vast majority, their primary mode of use is smoking; we don't see a large portion

Health committee  That's a very good question, and I don't have a clear answer for you. I think packaging is very important, along with education, to not leave cookies lying outside of a package, as that would obviously be appealing. Not using the type of packaging that a child might want to reall

Health committee  We do allow a large amount of home-grow, in particular for medical patients, with an extended plant count. Unfortunately, our data is not able to distinguish whether a poison centre call or an emergency department visit is related to homegrown or store-bought. I would certainly a

Health committee  Yes. We have seen an increase in poison centre calls and emergency department visits related to marijuana following legalization, and even somewhat prior with the commercialization of medical marijuana. In the poison centre calls, we are able to distinguish edible from smokable.

Health committee  Right. Then, of course, among children zero to eight, the majority are edible products.

Health committee  Is it okay to...?

Health committee  No.

Health committee  I agree, yes.

Health committee  Yes, that's correct.

Health committee  That's correct, yes.

Health committee  In our most recent year of data for both poison centre and emergency department visits, we have had a slight decline. We hope that's related to regulation and public education. We can't be certain what the causes are, but we have seen a slight decrease and hope that continues.