I'm a EMT/FF and we're the people who get to see that you're wrong.

THC is a hallucinogen. The most salient issue about hallucinogens is that they act differently on different people, and they have non-linear physiological responses in the human body. Too many people think "Oh, a little bit is good, more is better" - and that's not how drugs - any drugs - work in the human body, but it's really not how hallucinogens work in the body.

With the legalization of pot, we're seeing a rapid increase in the number of psychotic episodes, due mostly to "edibles." Producers in Colorado make these "edibles" in the forms of brownies, cookies, and even gummibears. We had a case here in Wyoming where a couple came back from Colorado with a bag of pot gummibears. These parents had their fill of getting stoned, went to bed, but... like so many people who get stoned, they failed a basic test of judgement: They left the bag of gummibears on the end table next to the sofa in front of the TV.

Next morning, who comes along to watch TV? That's right, Little Crumbcruncher Junior. Guess what Junior sees on the table? The gummibears.

A couple of hours later, Junior is in the ER, having a psychotic episode from eating who-knows-how-many gummibears. Testing on the gummibears showed that even consuming one piece of the candy was well beyond what we think is the tolerable level for a person of Junior's body mass - ie, one gummibear would have been "overdose" levels of THC. 

We've had people eat a pot cookie - the whole thing - and flip out. If said doper had bothered to read the fine print, he would have seen that he wasn't supposed to eat more than one-sixth of the cookie at a time. Some people eat cookies - plural. Some of these people then think they can fly. Well, too bad, so sad: Turns out that gravity sucks, and our intrepid stoner was not immune to the effects of gravity.

Legalization is great - I just wish it came with a proviso that ambulances and fire services are not always going to bust our butts to deal with your OD - regardless of whether it is an alcohol, dope, meth or fentanyl issue. We're now having to carry Narcan (aka naloxone) practically everywhere in first response vehicles, and it is rapidly becoming a first response protocol that 'if someone is going into respiratory distress or arrest, administer Narcan" - even when it might not be the correct medical intervention. The is just more expense and trouble for EMS, police and fire services we didn't need, thanks to the intersection of dopers and "free trade."

There are people who need our help for real emergencies - not situations that people knew were a likely result of their own desire to get stoned. There's not enough fire/EMS people to go around as it is; sooner or later, someone who is not a stoner and needs help, is going to die as a result of fire/EMS being tied up on a call with a stoner.