Posted on 12/26/2017 6:35:14 PM PST by SkyPilot
Chalfonte LeNee Queen of San Diego grappled with violent vomiting episodes for 17 years until she found out her illness was related to her marijuana use.
For 17 years, Chalfonte LeNee Queen suffered periodic episodes of violent retching and abdominal pain that would knock her off her feet for days, sometimes leaving her writhing on the floor in pain.
"I've screamed out for death," says Queen, 48, who lives in San Diego. "I've cried out for my mom, who's been dead for 20 years, mentally not realizing she can't come to me."
Queen lost a modeling job after being mistaken for an alcoholic. She racked up tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills, and her nausea interrupted her sex life. Toward the end of her illness, the 5-foot-9-inch woman weighed just 109 pounds.
Throughout the nearly two decades of pain, vomiting and mental fog, Queen visited the hospital about three times a year, but doctors never got to the bottom of what was ailing her. By 2016, she thought she was dying, that she "must have some sort of cancer or something they can't detect," Queen recalls.
But she didn't have cancer. She had an obscure syndrome called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, a condition only recently acknowledged by the medical community. It affects a small population — namely, a subset of marijuana users who smoke multiple times a day for months, years or even decades.
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What could go wrong?
Where’s the barf alert?
17 years to figure out cause and effect? Hard to believe.
Not picturing her ever being a model...
I do believe some “medicinal marijuana” can help sufferers of this debilitating vomiting condition.
“Chalfonte LeNee Queen”
I think I see the problem.
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It’s only wafer thin........
No, me, neither.
Which of course, she paid with the money left from her welfare/unemployment check after paying for her marijuana habit.
The article says it causes vomiting, not that it helps.
This article could have appeared in The Onion.
“.....and her nausea interrupted her sex life.”
It couldn’t be that she’s covered in ugly or anything.
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Probably serious cutbacks of Cheez Nachos too.
I’ve seen more of these articles since legalization in WA, OR and CO and can’t help but wonder if it’s possibly pesticides the pot farmers are using.
I doubt seriously that there are studies done on best farming practices for dope like there are for food crops.
Just because it’s safe to use on a food crop that is going to be processed and washed doesn’t mean it’s safe to use on a crop that is going to be dried and smoked.
Before or after eating 2 pounds of Oreos.
And there’s the difference between men and women.
A man would never let a little thing like nausea interrupt sex.
It is all grown indoors and no plant needs pesticides less than pot.
That is what the sticky mind-altering resin is for.
Tuffski shitzki.
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