Marijuana: severe adverse effects increasingly common
A recent article appeared in the New York Times about the potential harms of the high potency marijuana currently widespread and well-distributed, refuting that this is nonaddictive and safe (see https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/us/cannabis-marijuana-risks-addiction.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb or https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/us/cannabis-marijuana-risks-addiction.html ). A few general comments: -- there are many reports of patients being treated for extremely large amounts of marijuana intake daily, with the following problems associated with that: “ cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome ”, or CHS: severe vomiting, with patients “writhing around in pain” at times, and associated with severe dehydration, seizures, kidney failure, cardiac arrest, and at least eight attributable deaths -- it is hard to get accurate data on CHS since it is not consistently recorded in the medic...