Posted on 03/20/2009 3:25:57 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
ScienceDaily (Mar. 20, 2009) — Marijuana, a commonly abused drug among high school and college students, is linked to a severe form of vomiting syndrome and compulsive bathing behavior. This form of severe vomiting sickness is increasingly recognized with widespread abuse of marijuana. The syndrome usually subsides with strict abstinence from marijuana abuse.
This obscure clinical manifestation of severe vomiting sickness due to chronic abuse of marijuana was recognized by Dr. Sontineni and his colleagues at the Creighton University of Omaha, NE.
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Apparently marijuana is such a dangerous substance it can induce OCD in some people from just reading about it.
What does a bat in an inkwell need with a keyboard?
Since you are so much smarter than any physician...
“The exact mechanism leading to generation of these symptoms, why it appears only after several years of marijuana abuse and why compulsive hot showering behavior relieves the symptoms is still under scientific investigation.”
That's BS!
As someone who has been around hundreds of people 'undergoing chemotherapy' I don't know one person who smoked 'dope', period.
There happens to be excellent medication for nausea and it doesn't include smoking 'dope'.
There can't be any potheads on FR. Smoking pot makes you vomit uncontrollably, and you can't post with a keyboard full of puke.
“As someone who has been around hundreds of people ‘undergoing chemotherapy’ I don’t know one person who smoked ‘dope’, period.”
Well, that’s probably because it’s illegal.
Now I’m not advocating the legalization of marijuana, or even marijuana for medical purposes - I just think it’s interesting that something that’s supposed to cause vomiting can prevent vomiting - and that’s all I said.
And I didn’t just pull the concept out of my ear. From Consumer Reports / the Consumer Union (which so far as I know has no dog in this fight) in 1997:
“Less is known about marijuana’s beneficial side. For the past decade, the government has refused to provide either money or marijuana to researchers studying the drug’s potential therapeutic effects, so this research has been nearly at a standstill. Early this year, however, in response to the Arizona and California initiatives, the National Institutes of Health called together an expert panel to consider possible areas of research. The panel concluded that there’s enough evidence of smoked marijuana’s usefulness to justify resuming studies.
“Researchers are interested in three major areas where smoked marijuana seems to work therapeutically:
“Nausea from chemotherapy. Because it’s illegal, there are no figures available on how many cancer patients self-treat their nausea with smoked marijuana. But a 1991 survey of more than a thousand cancer specialists found that 44% had recommended it to at least one patient, and that 48% would prescribe it if it were legal. Before the federal government cracked down on research, enough had been learned to persuade the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve, in 1986, the marketing of dronabinol (Marinol). This drug, in pill form, contains THC to treat nausea caused by cancer chemotherapy.
“With a legal synthetic marijuana pill already available, why are people still pushing for the right to smoke marijuana for medical purposes? Because patients and doctors assert that the two do not behave the same in the body. And a convincing body of research, some of it now nearly two decades old, shows that smoked marijuana suppresses nausea better than Marinol pills, and with fewer side effects. Physicians speculate that one reason for the difference is that smoked marijuana enters the bloodstream almost instantaneously, allowing patients to control their dose, whereas the oral version is absorbed slowly for some time. In addition, there’s the possibility that the complex mix of compounds in whole, smoked marijuana somehow counteracts the more unpleasant effects of pure THC, such as extreme dizziness and unsteady gait.
“Some people maintain that newer antinausea medications have made both Marinol and marijuana unnecessary. “The American Medical Association and so forth, they’re not clamoring for medical marijuana, and I think for good reasons,” says Billy R. Martin, professor of pharmacology at the Medical College of Virginia and a longtime researcher on the metabolism of marijuana. “There are better drugs out there.” One often cited as such is the antinausea drug ondansetron (Zofran). But even the newest drugs do not work for everyone, a fact that has led some patients to continue using marijuana.”
LOL!
Personally, in my college days, I found alcohol even more closely linked to vomiting.
Which ones are those?
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