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Posted on 12/05/2025 8:47:49 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Researchers have found that cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, a vomiting condition tied to chronic cannabis use, rose sharply in US emergency departments between 2016 and 2022 and has stayed elevated.
As of June 2025, nearly half of US residents live in states with legalized recreational cannabis, and policy shifts have expanded adult-use access through legalization, medical programs, and decriminalization. Among cannabis-related harms, cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) has been described as a growing concern in clinical and public health settings.
CHS was first identified in 2004 in Australia and remains a syndrome with uncertain etiology. Proposed neurophysiological mechanisms include downregulation of cannabinoid 1 receptors, altered transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 signaling, and disrupted hypothalamic thermoregulation.
CHS has three defined phases. The first two include a prodromal phase of abdominal pain or morning nausea which can last for months or years at a time, and a hyperemetic phase, lasting a few days with recurrent vomiting and potential escalation to "scromiting" where screaming in pain while vomiting can occur.
Within these phases, people with CHS tend to bathe compulsively in hot water, often for hours at a time, as it can relieve symptoms.
In a third, recovery phase, abstinence from cannabis reduces symptoms within a few days or months. Eventually, they will completely disappear.
The existence of CHS was a mystery to clinicians until very recently. Patients with CHS frequently appear in emergency departments and are often tested unnecessarily for a wide variety of conditions, misdiagnosed with cyclic vomiting syndrome or assigned nonspecific gastrointestinal conditions.
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I’m so glad I don’t live in an apartment complex, any longer. I figure scromiting happens a lot in liberal states.
These same people would never do the same thing if they were drunk.
The social implications of our not only legalizing but presenting it as harmless are yet to fully unfold but I do not think we will care for the results.
Chronic drug use has negative side effects?
You don’t say!
Tic Tok Challenge?
After spending 25 years responding to idiots who have destroyed their health with frequent pot use... I have learned that mentioning the crap that I saw goes in one ear and out the other of the potheads who post here.
But believe it or not even in a society that basically worships alcohol use, habitual consumption, smoking or vaping marijuana is somehow a bigger threat to most peoples’ health than pickling your brain with alcohol.
Why? Hell, if I know, but it is the God's honest truth.
I don’t recall this among those I knew who partook of the devil’s lettuce. I do remember a few who had coughs that made whooping cough seem like a winter cold. I wonder if they’re related symptoms.
CC
And that was what worried me.
A young person getting high and doing stupid stuff, not smart but expected.
These are adults, in their thirties, with children, getting high and being on line doing stuff like mowing their lawns.
I hate to be a stick in the mud but this does not end well.
Being high does not keep the whirling blades from cutting you.
“downregulation of cannabinoid 1 receptors, altered transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 signaling, and disrupted hypothalamic thermoregulation.“
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As an old Pharmaceutical Rep, I believe that is the primary genesis of the syndrome.
Moderation is key.
Stop deluging your brain with a complex group of psychoactive molecules.
I would rather describe it as abuse.
But, yes, they are destroying themselves.
The vomiting is no big deal. A handful of Twinkies, and they’ll be right as rain.
Sad.
All smoke is toxic. It amazes me that cigarette smoking is demonized while pot smoking barely gets a shrug. The smoke from both will eventually kill you.
Plenty on this forum brag of Cocktails
Decades ago I lived in an apartment building that used to be a grand old hotel.
Stoners in every fecking unit, except me.
My dogs were even sick from the constant “ fumes” so I broke the lease 3 months in and moved to a middle of nowhere little rental Craftsman house.
Have not had to live in any “ communal” building since the mid-80s, thank God.
You should visit the free emergency vet forums some time
Every day someone worrying about their mysteriously deathly ill dog and then later, the confession of edibles/etc will get broached and then confessed to.
The vet community sees this “ accidental” animal abuse every day.
Vile.
/Darwin wept
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