Infant Death due to Cannabis Ingestion.
Drug testing and analysis May 21, 2025 Donata Favretto, Antonello Cirnelli, Roberto Pertile et al. 2 citations
A child died hours after ingesting a cork-colored, earth-like substance. At the hospital, the child had trouble walking, balancing, and staying conscious, and needed intubation for breathing difficulty, receiving fentanyl and ketamine. Autopsy showed congestion in multiple organs. Toxicological tests on blood, urine, bile, organs, stomach contents, and hair detected cannabinoids, ketamine, norketamine, and fentanyl in emergency room blood; postmortem samples also contained cannabinoids. Hair analysis revealed THC, CBD, CBN, methadone, cocaine, morphine, and other drugs. Stomach contents had traces of cannabis. Acute cannabis intoxication amid chronic exposure to multiple drugs was deemed responsible for the death. Cases of intoxication are increasing with cannabis legalization, but data on young children remain scarce.