Posted on 03/23/2009 9:16:18 AM PDT by yankeedame
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...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
I’ll be in the shower.
Let me know if anything happens.
Frame Four:"How sweet it is."
[Here we have a President who not only inhales, he exhales. And it's a relief -- as you can see -- because now with the buzz embedded in the brain you can get back to breathing.]
This is visionary weed, man. I can see, see the future. I see myself as, whoa, President of the United States, man. How far out is that? Hey, don't bogart that....
How about a Photoshop with teleprompter?
“The potheads I have known have been unusually stupid people.”
Albert Einstein is reported to have smoked pot. Sort of ..umm...blows your theory.
It’s probably pot from China tainted with melamine.
...You just had to drag me into this fight, huh? Aaaa, its ok. Jest kidding!(-; My motivation to post on a diversity of threads gets me into enough trouble on my own...
...Good luck with this clown, see yer later...
“Albert Einstein is reported to have smoked pot”
Well, that’s convincing evidence, not!
Lots of people are reported to have done lots of stuff. Particularly when they are dead and can no longer set the matter straight.
I think pot stupidfies you. Even if you start out fine, heavy pot use tends to dumb you down over time. Anyone else notice the same thing, or am I wrong?
I hate to see people cripple themselves.
This has to be complete bulls!@#. Hippies don’t bathe.
Set the bong down and back away slowly... LOL
But they never touch it, they are just defending "freedom". LOL!
Making up words to suit yourself is not a symptom of stupidity.
I use “stupidfies” a lot. I like it.
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