OK, now I’ve heard everything. From Australia we get this report about Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, which allegedly means that too much pot smoking will make you vomit:
This obscure clinical manifestation of severe vomiting sickness due to chronic abuse of marijuana, recognized by Dr. Sontineni and his colleagues at the Creighton University of Omaha, NE, was published on March 14, 2009 World Journal of Gastroenterology.
That abstract from the journal:
Cannabis is a common drug of abuse that is associated with various long-term and short-term adverse effects. The nature of its association with vomiting after chronic abuse is obscure and is underrecognised by clinicians. In some patients this vomiting can take on a pattern similar to cyclic vomiting syndrome with a peculiar compulsive hot bathing pattern, which relieves intense feelings of nausea and accompanying symptoms. In this case report, we describe a twenty-two year-old-male with a history of chronic cannabis abuse presenting with recurrent vomiting, intense nausea and abdominal pain. In addition, the patient reported that the hot baths improved his symptoms during these episodes. Abstinence from cannabis led to resolution of the vomiting symptoms and abdominal pain. We conclude that in the setting of chronic cannabis abuse, patients presenting with chronic severe nausea and vomiting that can sometimes be accompanied by abdominal pain and compulsive hot bathing behaviour, in the absence of other obvious causes, a diagnosis of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome should be considered.
The medical news site continues:
According to Dr. Sontineni, doctors and health care workers currently under recognize the syndrome leading to delayed diagnosis and expensive diagnostic investigations. Increasing consistent use of marijuana among United States populations, particularly young people, over several years will see a steady rise in the number of cases diagnosed each year.
The syndrome was first recognized in Australia around the Adelaide hills. 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.
The recognition of this novel syndrome and increasing physician awareness is supported by the Department of Medicine at Creighton University Medical Center. Similarly, scientists and doctors at other institutions worldwide are beginning to identify more cases with this new syndrome as a result of chronic marijuana abuse among populations.
This is the first time I’ve ever heard of anyone vomiting because of marijuana, instead of using marijuana because of vomiting. You’d think in the forty-plus years of serious marijuana use in America, we’d have heard of some cases of Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome by now. You’d think somebody would know somebody who had to give up his or her regular bong habit because they couldn’t stop throwing up.
You can be sure Dr. Earleywine and I will cover this on Wednesday.
I have this disorder also. I thought I was just weird about the whole shower thing when I got sick. I’ve had this hit me at least 6 times in the last year at a week at a time. And yes, I’ve been a heavy smoker for at least the last ten years.
It’s the truth!!!!!!!!!!! My husband is in the hospital as we speak and I just found that article that you speak of and my husband has all the symptoms mentioned. He is a chronic marijuana smoker and every couple of months he gets sick and starts throwing up out of the blue and must take excessive baths to feel better only to start throwing up again. The doctors ran all the tests they could but they all came back clean. 4 days after feeling better and getting out the hospital he started throwing up again, so surely it’s the weed. There is no other explanation for it but the fact that he smokes weed every single day maybe 2x a day. What affects some people might not affect others. I still think marijuana is not harmful to most but for some, moderation is key.
The study in Australia was 22 people by the way. Not that that is a much larger sample.
I have it too Please contact me amyrose2712@gmail.com. I don’t think people are understanding. I think it triggers Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome, not causes it. Many people suffer with CVS that do not smoke. It is under diagnosed because CVS is very hard and rarely diagnosed. For everyone’s information you don’t smoke and get sick from it. In the short term it may actually help the nausea. This is a long term cyclic occurrence.
How could anyone suspect that a “report” like this is tainted by a long running, non-science based, anti pot propaganda campaign?
How could anyone (with eyes open) suspect otherwise?
I have never vomited from weed
but i have vomited from that one liquid poison that is legal what is it called….o yes alchol
this is a very real disorder, i have it. it might only affect a small % of 420 users, but it’s very real.
I have had my share of cough attacks from a puff of good buds. But no matter how long or hard i coughed i would never vomit, even if it felt as if i were going too.
I have an experience to add to this. I have never, ever felt nauseous after ingesting cannabis. However, my wife tried it once and had a bad experience. I have only known two people to have bad experiences. Perhaps she had too much for her first time. She is very sensitive to any substance, and has diagnosed clinical depression and anxiety with panic attacks. After she smoked, she felt like she “was going to die” and actually vomited. I was astonished and my brother and I felt very badly. This was not chronic smoking though. Just one acute event.
Never have puked from herbs but then agian,
I probably would if I had to smoke some of the mexican dirt weed Thats in the area thanks to the cartels that bring it across the border here to california.
Lucky for me & the seldom few I know we no longer smoke inferior herbs.
I recently did an article on this subject. While it appears the condition might *possibly* exist in a handful of people, the study is highly suspect.
http://www.showmethefacts.org/2009/03/22/chronic-cannabis-use-linked-to-vomiting-not-likely/
Progression of my feelings after reading this
nope – never puked EVER! NOT ONCE! never while on cannabis hemp.
But this just in! Cannabis Hemp causes cyclic awesome syndrome. Do not attempt to partake in cannabis hemp, lest you become awesome!
This “finding” is complete nonsense.
I’ve smoked until I couldn’t feel my legs anymore but I’ve never once puked from it! Neither has any of my friends in all the years we’ve been “chronically abusing marijuana”.
Well, there you have it,folks. All of you who don’t know when to stop should just flush all that illegal weed and go back to using the government approved recreational inebriant, alcohol.
-ED
I saw this when it came out last week.
Thank god we have Russ, Mr Spof, and Justice
on top of these things.
I’m sure the good Dr. will set things aright.
‘The syndrome was first recognized in Australia around the Adelaide hills. ‘
I wonder what changed in that area?
Farming practices?
Nuke plant? concrete plant maybe?
new water plant?…
MMMmmmmm
I have heard of people vomiting from smoking too much. If you cough hard and long enough it can lead to vomitting, and if this guy was smoking marijuana pretty much constantly I could see why he might experience these symptoms, and why breathing in hot humid air while taking a bath would be beneficial. The supposed corroborations are probably anecdotal reports of people throwing up while smoking, which must be fairly common. It certainly has nothing to do with cannabinoids.
progression of my feelings after reading this
what was the dosage used in the expirement?
On what authority does the author base these claims on?
We can see the scope and range of this study’s sample size… a single 22 year old male:
In this case report, we describe a twenty-two year-old-male with a history of chronic cannabis abuse presenting with recurrent vomiting, intense nausea and abdominal pain. In addition, the patient reported that the hot baths improved his symptoms during these episodes. Abstinence from cannabis led to resolution of the vomiting symptoms and abdominal pain.
Furthermore, I read the actual case report at the journal of gastroenterology (they have scrubbed the page since), and mentions that the patient smoked marijuana once or twice an hour, all day every day. I have no idea what that would do to you, namely because I’ve never had that much weed..