And I keep hearing that marijuana is safer than alcohol - Granite Grok

And I keep hearing that marijuana is safer than alcohol

Mind if I smoke a doobie - medical marijuana in New Hampshire

Completely safe is what I’m told.  Um, maybe not so much? Emphasis mine, reformatted:

Mysterious illness tied to marijuana use on the rise in states with legal weed

For more than two years, Lance Crowder was having severe abdominal pain and vomiting, and no local doctor could figure out why. Finally, an emergency room physician in Indianapolis had an idea. “The first question he asked was if I was taking hot showers to find relief. When he asked me that question, I basically fell into tears because I knew he had an answer,” Crowder said.

The answer was cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS. It’s caused by heavy, long-term use of various forms of marijuana. For unclear reasons, the nausea and vomiting are relieved by hot showers or baths.

…He co-authored a study showing that since 2009, when medical marijuana became widely available, emergency room visits diagnoses for CHS in two Colorado hospitals nearly doubled. In 2012, the state legalized recreational marijuana.  “It is certainly something that, before legalization, we almost never saw,” Heard said. “Now we are seeing it quite frequently.”

CHS can lead to dehydration and kidney failure, but usually resolves within days of stopping drug use. That’s what happened with Crowder, who has been off all forms of marijuana for seven months.

And what happened to him?

“Now all kinds of ambition has come back. I desire so much more in life and, at 37 years old, it’s a little late to do it, but better now than never,”he said.

 

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