By Brit Smith, host of Blunt Talk

BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — In the wake of medical marijuana legalization, there has been a new study by the University of Massachusetts Amherst that looked into how many calls have come in to the Regional Center for Poison Control and Prevention in Massachusetts between 2009-2016 regarding children aged 0-19 taking medical cannabis products.

But several news outlets are misinterpreting the study’s data, and falsely reporting on what the UMass report says.

Let’s take a look at this article from Wicked Local’s Millbury-Sutton Chronicle, and see what the author is claiming versus what the UMass study actually found.