A year after a 19-year-old's death linked to marijuana cookie, the Centers for Disease Control is tackling the importance of warning labels on marijuana laced edibles by outlining the details on the case of the Wyoming lad's demise.

In a report by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention released Friday, it is said that the death of Levy Thamba Pongi, an exchange student from the Republic of Congo who jumped off a fourth-story balcony after eating marijuana cookies, illustrates the dangers of marijuana overconsumption and the need for warning labels including dosage guidelines in packages of edibles, as per CBS News.

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Based on CDC's report, the teenager who visited Denver in March last year had overdosed on pot cookie. The victim had no history of mental illness or drug abuse, investigators said.

In Colorado, anyone over the age of 21 can legally purchase marijuana, including cannabis infused edibles such as candies, cookies or brownies. The victim and his friends went to Denver apparently for marijuana tourism, when a friend bought the cookie, the CDC noted.

The store worker advised eating only about one-sixth of the pot cookie, which was the recommended 10 mg serving of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive component of marijuana, Palm Beach Post has learned. The estimated time for pot to take effect on the human system is 30 minutes. However, after 30 minutes passed and he did not feel any different, Pongi reportedly consumed the entire cookie - all 65 mg of THC.

Approximately almost three hours after eating the whole cookie, the boy jumped from a fourth floor hotel balcony and eventually died of trauma.

Marijuana intoxication was listed in the autopsy as a chief contributing factor in Pongi's death, The Denver Post reported.

Since absorption of THC into the bloodstream is delayed in eating compared to smoking, the CDC report noted that "the delayed effects of THC-infused edibles, multiple servings might be consumed in close succession before experiencing the 'high' from the initial serving, as reportedly occurred in this case."

In February 1, Colorado implemented new packaging and label rules for pot edibles mandating products to have individual labels and to contain no more than 10 mg of THC.

Colorado is not the only state that should enact proper labels and guidelines on marijuana edibles, all other states where recreational marijuana is legal - including Oregon, Alaska, Washington and the District of Columbia - should observe the same rules, the CDC stated.

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