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Cannabis users 'suffering new syndrome'
News.com.au ^
| March 23, 2009
| Danny Rose
Posted on 03/23/2009 9:16:18 AM PDT by yankeedame
Cannabis users 'suffering new syndrome'
Pot Smokers Suffering 'New Syndrome':
GREENING OUT
What are these? Nasty high ... "Grown men, screaming in pain, vomiting every 30 seconds and demanding to use the shower" - that's how a doctor describes new symptoms affecting cannabis users....
THERE is mounting evidence to support the existence of a new syndrome afflicting heavy cannabis users...
The condition "cannabinoid hyperemesis" ...is characterised by nausea, stomach pain and bouts of vomiting - ill effects which, oddly, sufferers say they get some relief from by having a hot shower or bath.
The new case, involving a 22-year-old man in Omaha, is published in the World Journal of Gastroenterology where doctors were also told to consider it when treating people with unexplained vomiting.
...the young man initially turned to "compulsive hot bathing behaviour" to relieve the symptoms but he was not cured until he gave up smoking cannabis altogether.
...Little was known about how cumulative cannabis use could lead to vomiting and, particularly, why sufferers would find some relief in hot bathing...
"Grown men, screaming in pain, sweating profusely, vomiting every 30 seconds and demanding to be allowed to use the shower. It's a very dramatic presentation."
Dr Caldicott said the condition had been identified in a small number of cannabis users "but in the medical community it is now considered to be a real condition".
Centre director Jan Copeland said more cases would need to emerge before it could be considered a new syndrome linked to chronic cannabis use...
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TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: dopeheadsonparade; libertarians; medicalmarijuana
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To: rockinqsranch
Just wait til phase 2. lol
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posted on
03/23/2009 9:29:58 AM PDT
by
kalee
(01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
To: al baby
I can’t remember either wanna go to 7/11 for some nachos With the day old chili sauce! Man, that's phat.
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posted on
03/23/2009 9:30:07 AM PDT
by
humblegunner
(Where my PIE at, fool?)
To: yankeedame
So now smoking “the chronic” causes chronic bathing. Hippies taking baths. Dogs and cats living together...the end is nea...
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posted on
03/23/2009 9:30:59 AM PDT
by
badbass
To: humblegunner
Hg how the hell are you ?
24
posted on
03/23/2009 9:32:14 AM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: SirJohnBarleycorn
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posted on
03/23/2009 9:37:36 AM PDT
by
indi_girl447
(Change...at least he didn't lie...)
To: yankeedame
Interesting, given the purported medicinal use is aimed at reducing chemo-induced nausea.
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posted on
03/23/2009 9:39:47 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(May God save America from its government; this is no time for Obamateurs. Emmanuel = Haldeman?)
To: yankeedame
What were we talking about?
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posted on
03/23/2009 9:40:59 AM PDT
by
muglywump
(Seven day without laughter makes one weak.)
To: badbass
People have been smoking pot for years without wanting to take a shower..... they live in Berkeley....;^)
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posted on
03/23/2009 9:41:22 AM PDT
by
WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
(Serkit 3/19/09 "Slow Joe needs to stay out of the deep end of the Think Tank")
To: SirJohnBarleycorn
...Big brother Hyperemesis...
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posted on
03/23/2009 9:47:36 AM PDT
by
gargoyle
(..."Gallows humor."? Mr. President, HANG YOURSELF! Not the Republic!!!)
To: yankeedame
I sense a new “House” episode...
30
posted on
03/23/2009 9:49:29 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Obamanation: an imploding administration headed by a clueless schmuck, with McCain as his Kowakian)
To: yankeedame
"Grown men, screaming in pain, sweating profusely, vomiting every 30 seconds and demanding to be allowed to use the shower. It's a very dramatic presentation." Did they check whether they had been exposed to a picture of Helen Thomas?
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posted on
03/23/2009 9:51:44 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Obamanation: an imploding administration headed by a clueless schmuck, with McCain as his Kowakian)
To: al baby
I the hell are pretty good!
How you?
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posted on
03/23/2009 9:54:59 AM PDT
by
humblegunner
(Where my PIE at, fool?)
To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
LOL...that is funny. Seriously, pot is for losers. I have never understood the desire to try it. But heck, I haven’t even tasted alcohol so what do I know?
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posted on
03/23/2009 9:56:07 AM PDT
by
danmyte
(dana)
To: danmyte
Just think in terms of culture
5000 years of an alchol based culture = Western civilization.
5000 years of a cannibas based culture= Middle East
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:02:03 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
To: danmyte
LOL...that is funny. Seriously, pot is for losers. I have never understood the desire to try it. But heck, I haven’t even tasted alcohol so what do I know?In another year of the present reality, everyone will be huffing ether, anyway. It's cheaper.
"Ahh, Devil Ether-A total body drug..."
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:02:08 AM PDT
by
Gorzaloon
(Roark, Architect.)
To: mysterio
World Journal of Gastroenterology maybe you should tell them so they will be informed on the matter.
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:10:48 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
To: y6162
Why deliberately make yourself stupid? It makes no sense to me. I like to be sharp as possible.
The potheads I have known have been unusually stupid people.
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:20:18 AM PDT
by
Marie2
(I don't know what that bird told you, but I'M Brian Fellows)
To: yankeedame
Funny how all the potheads on this thread can't form a complete sentence, yet are somehow qualified to render judgment on this condition as "reefer madness".
Why is it the only time potheads can display any motivation is when they are defending their precious "herb"?
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:31:38 AM PDT
by
GLDNGUN
To: Vaduz
maybe you should tell them so they will be informed on the matter.
Drug warriors don't deal in facts. And they don't want to be informed. They deal in hyperbole, exaggeration, and outright lies.
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:40:43 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: GLDNGUN
Odd...drinking a bottle of tequila gives me the same symptoms that are relieved by the same cure.
We should definitely ban tequila.
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