What happens when a dog eats weed?

The severity of these mostly depends on the dog’s size, and how much the dog consumes. Even just a few grams of flower is enough to set off a negative THC reaction in dogs. Though it’s far less common, you should definitely be just as careful in keeping flowers and edibles away from your cats as well. read more

Signs of Marijuana Ingestion in Dogs. If your dog eats marijuana, the effects they experience will depend on their size and weight as well as the amount and type of marijuana ingested. When evaluating drugs, researchers often establish an LD50, or the dosage of a certain drug that causes death in 50% of a research population. read more

As weed becomes legalized, run-ins between pets and pot could increase. In Washington State, for example, veterinarians have been seeing as many as a dog per day for THC exposure. And in Colorado, incidents of doped-up dogs have quadrupled in recent years. read more

Cannabinoids, the psychotropic compounds that get someone high, pass through people in their feces, so dogs also get exposed to marijuana by eating human poop. This happens most often in areas with large homeless populations, Wismer explained. read more

The situation is this, marijuana is actually not that poisonous to dogs, in fact it takes about 1.5 grams of marijuana per pound of body weight to cause death. So deaths from marijuana poisoning are not common in the dog, while I have seen a number of cases where dogs have swallowed marijuana over the years I personally have never seen a death. read more