Posted on 07/15/2021 4:22:07 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The condition — officially called "cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome" but now known to health care workers as "scromiting," a mashup of "screaming" and "vomiting" — has popped up with increasing frequency at hospitals in Colorado, doctors say.
“The only thing that convinced me was that it stopped when I stopped smoking,” said Gribbon, now 20.
“We use up a lot of medical resources to see if there is anything more seriously wrong with them,”
Scromiting cases have increased as pot has become far more powerful, according to doctors. Experts say the marijuana consumed 20 years ago had levels of THC, the main psychoactive ingredient, of 2 percent to 3 percent, but cannabis products now sold in markets like Colorado can have THC levels as high as 90 percent.
An increasing share of Colorado’s $2 billion cannabis market is made up of concentrates or other products with high levels of THC
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Yes. Pot is s miracle drug. It cures every malady known to man and reptilians too. Even Grays use it. It also turns you into a genius. Just ask any user.
—”What about us older smokers?”
As a mostly teetotaller and nonsmoker, I’d be near the last to know much on this subject.
Many years of rock and ice climbing; I had a shirt that said “I get high on ROCK.”
Adrenaline junkie, OK I confess.
Endorphins? You gotta work hard for them, some nice hard intervals with 100% heart rate... That works for me.
And if nothing else it feels good to stop.
—”It also turns you into a genius.”
Perhaps there is some hope for this Dumbgrunt?
I need all the help I can get.
As asked above, —“I won’t go schizo, will I?”
Huh, whaddaya know?
“Pot is a miracle drug. It cures every malady known to man and reptilians too. Even Grays use it. It also turns you into a genius. Just ask any user...”
Just ask any genius...
I think that is a very fitting thing to have happening to them.
I'd like to see all violent criminals have to do that for a few hours, every day of incarceration.
The difference between a medicine and a poison is the dosage.
Ever higher THC content can cross the threshold.
Caffeine and Nicotine are alkaloids and have positive effects at low dosage while both can kill above a certain threshold.
Cannabis “products” with 90% THC is akin to 195 proof grain alcohol.
That’s not “weed.” That is concentrates. BIG difference.
My State Trooper son tells me they are seeing a lot of bales of pot coming through.
Evidently people are not excited about paying $50 a gram. Go figure.
Of course these people were drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes before pot was legalized. No problems with that. Not.
I suppose drinking Everclear 95% alcohol is a bad idea for kids too.
So you don’t think there’s been an increase of dysfunctional people in society since we’ve normalized recreational drug use? Look at the homeless in San Francisco as an example. They’re not amiable Freddy the Freeloaders !
Defining deviancy down as Patrick Moynihan put has had its costs !
Is scromiting, vomiting so hard your balls hurt? I have never heard of it before but it’s the first thing that comes to mind.
You think that’s because of pot?
That’s quite a leap.
Dems have another potent weapon now. A database of everyone who buys MJ products. That’s probably the thing they wanted most in this bill.
Anyone who opposes their agenda and uses THC will end up publicly roasted in the Denver Post.
“All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.”
Paracelsus
Today the question becomes; what’s the ROI (return on investment).
“he’s on disability for schizophrenia”
Most anti-psychotic drugs work by being dopamine antagonists (reducing dopamine).
THC is a powerful dopamine agonist (increasing it).
Anyone will hallucinate, given a high enough dose of THC, but borderline psychotics will be pushed over into active psychosis, at what would just be recreational dosages for most people.
Marijuana, pot, cannabis, whatever you want to call it is an intoxicant herb used before written records. It predates alcohol. Our weirded out society accepts alcohol and the societal fallout as acceptable. Pot as a drug reduces violence but as an item of commerce increases it.
Completed it.
I agree there is no law enforcement solution. Like alcohol, it can only be a personal responsibility thing.
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