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High potency weed linked to psychotic episodes, mysterious vomiting illness in young users
NBC News ^ | 11 July 2021 | Laura Strickler and Steve Patterson

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: asickodrug; cannabis; marijuana; pot; scromiting; wod
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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.


41 posted on 07/15/2021 5:43:39 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: GSWarrior

—”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.


42 posted on 07/15/2021 5:44:56 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Seruzawa

—”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?”


43 posted on 07/15/2021 5:48:50 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Huh, whaddaya know?


44 posted on 07/15/2021 5:57:17 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I found that yelling at my screen did not effect the change I sought.)
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To: Seruzawa; NobleFree

“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...


45 posted on 07/15/2021 6:10:15 PM PDT by Does so (The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
“Scromiting”

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.

46 posted on 07/15/2021 6:40:11 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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.


47 posted on 07/15/2021 6:42:32 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Cannabis “products” with 90% THC is akin to 195 proof grain alcohol.

That’s not “weed.” That is concentrates. BIG difference.


48 posted on 07/15/2021 7:14:54 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: chief lee runamok

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.


49 posted on 07/15/2021 7:16:55 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Reily

Of course these people were drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes before pot was legalized. No problems with that. Not.


50 posted on 07/15/2021 7:19:22 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I suppose drinking Everclear 95% alcohol is a bad idea for kids too.


51 posted on 07/15/2021 7:22:52 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: Vermont Lt

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 !


52 posted on 07/15/2021 7:39:55 PM PDT by Reily
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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.


53 posted on 07/15/2021 8:22:41 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Reily

You think that’s because of pot?

That’s quite a leap.


54 posted on 07/15/2021 8:24:17 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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.


55 posted on 07/15/2021 8:28:31 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: BereanBrain

“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).


56 posted on 07/15/2021 8:49:30 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: phoneman08

“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.


57 posted on 07/15/2021 10:33:59 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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.


58 posted on 07/15/2021 10:48:18 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar
Pot as a drug reduces violence but as an item of illegal commerce increases it.

Completed it.

59 posted on 07/16/2021 4:38:30 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Reily

I agree there is no law enforcement solution. Like alcohol, it can only be a personal responsibility thing.


60 posted on 07/16/2021 5:56:54 AM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdz oncm,.dadfjl,dz )
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