If there is one thing most FReepers know nothing about, it’s marijuana.
This is real although described poorly. It has been commonly seen in hospitals for at least for 10-15 years although it often wrongly gets called cyclic vomiting syndrome instead.
These people who have Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome cost individual hospitals all over the land MILLIONS of dollars a year, as they no surprise are often not insured, plus they generally refuse to believe that cannabis is causing this, and they just keep consuming it, and getting re-admitted.
They have unrelenting vomiting, and often abdominal pain, and get dehydrated and have to be hospitalized on IV fluids. They get GI scans and tests and blood tests and it all adds up. They generally demand narcotics. Some patients have 10-20 expensive hospital admissions per year with this.
Once a person gets this it is like an allergy and keeps happening every time they “smoke up” over and over again. A hospital with just 10 of these people could end up with unpaid bills of 10 people x 10 admissions x $15,000 (at least!) = $1.5 million avoidable cost. This does not count the costs of separate bills like physicians. It is generally more.
The fastest “treatment” is hot showers. It works right away, although they get sick again as soon as they get out of the shower. The patient checks in, demands narcotics and anti-nausea drugs, then gets in the shower and is there half the day.
I think cannabis has been altered over the years, and contains different chemicals and quantities of chemicals, and as a result, this condition (Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome) is MUCH more common.
It is yet another good reason to never use cannabis.
Legalizing mj. What could possibly go wrong?
At first I thought it read “Scrotuming”....Ewwww!
No telling what crap chems they’re putting in to it, these days.
[Quietly asking again ... where are the anti-smoking NAZIs? Cannabis is SMOKE! What about the SECONDARY Cannabis smoke that is going to give me this screaming-vomiting disease. My rights are being trampled upon! ... me thinks the NAZIs have been smoking it all along!]
Don’t drink the bongwater.
Pot really screws up your thinking. Pot users always seem to think that the harmful effects of alcohol somehow cancel out the harmful effects of weed. Sort of like how liberals justify their crimes by pointing out other people’s offenses. One is unrelated to the other.
I detect a megatrend..
fake news,,
Okay, when marijuana smokers smoke way too much, they Scromit.
So what is it called that Democrats do?
A combination of whining, hate, bigotry, bitterness, greed, perversion, avarice, atheism, envy, sadism, and lust for power that makes them vomit and poop their pants?
BLAB HAG SPEWS?
Quit smoking pot and cigarettes in Nov, 1999. Haven’t looked back but still want a cigarette every day.
I feel so so bad.....NOT!
Scrotastrophe -— when it gets caught in your zipper.
Taco Bells had a commercial targeting pot induced munchies a few years ago.