I knew cannabis causes relentless vomiting when you overdose on it, but it can cause nausea even when you're not high?

My personal, unscientific read on the CHE situation is that it's mote likely a collection of common responses to anxiety/panic caused by being too high. I have no first hand experience though. But I can tell you that tye advent of things such as the Astropink Alien Brain, coming in at 500mg of thc in a single gummy, supports that we're in unprecedented times potency and ease of use wise. That's roughly equivalent to the THC of an entire eighth of flower in one go. I can easily see people biting off more than they can chew, so to speak.

I wonder if this number would change if the drug was regulated??

Nahh... Probably not... [as I take a swig from my 90% alcoholic drink].

I like how "used it in the past year" in one paragraph mysteriously becomes "regular, heavy use" in the next.

I'm a daily user for years and I've never heard of this. I wonder if it has to do with the way they're consuming it. Shady vapes from the internet could be causing trouble, not the thc itself.

When I had a gallstone induced pancreatitis they tried to tell me this is what I had. Luckly they still ran some blood work and got me scheduled for emergency surgery.

It was pretty annoying having the doctor trying to blame my severe pain on cannabis use though :/

Do this report have actual numbers of youth "landing in the ER with vomiting from cannabis use", or is this just percentages, none which seem directly related?

This is just the symptom of a much bigger underlying issue. We can talk about regulation all we want or even banning it, but it won't solve the big problem of what young adults have to face today in society at large. They are ill prepared for the real world, bombarded by social media influences 24/7, this is just another coping mechanism they've turned to.

Excessive use of alcohol, vapes, sugar etc. are all just as bad. But hey, the stats are saying 16-19 year olds at 43 percent - last I checked the legal age to purchase cannabis was 19 in Canada. So, anything under that would be considered illegal and I'd solely place the blame on the parents - just like any other substance abuse. Alas, that still doesn't solve the mental pressures that these young adults will need to face (housing, employment opportunities, global factors - climate change etc.). We can educate all that we can, but it won't change the reality. The reality is that it takes real political will and a strong mandate from voters (we all know our federal government is like a bunch of companies in a trench coat and that needs to change) to actually FIX the money side of problems. I am not surprised that the 20-24 year old's use cannabis (48% claimed by the article) - record inflation anyone? high groceries? lack of good livable wage employment? housing?

Here's my hot take, cannabis gets more bad rep than alcohol when alcohol, IMO, is worse.

Heavy cannabis use is associated with heightened risks of anxiety, depression, psychosis and self-harm.

So is antidepressant use.

Any comparison to alcohol?

Cause I'm hearing that youth are suffering from nausea, which sounds a lot better than dying of alcohol poisoning.

Maybe if the world wasn't burning these youth's future in plain sight they'd be less stressed and depressed?

Substance abuse is a symptom of, not a cause of, mental health problems.

The interesting part is that CHS shares the bathing thing with the Cyclic Vomitting Syndrome. There's something similar that must be causing both

I don't buy this "increased potency" argument as it sounds like the same anti-weed shit they've been saying since the 90s. We had concentrates and hash and vaporizers in the 2000s. Potency of the flower doesn't matter much when you can rip volcano vapes from dawn till dusk. All these "CHS" stories also always mention the dumb "hurr Cannabis psychosis" shit which is the other Hallmark of old anti weed propaganda that makes me skeptical.

Idk, it kind of feels like hysteria or some related comorbidity with munchies. I've definitely known people who make themselves sick over and over again from eating too many Doritos

Why is everyone so combative as if this has not been well known for decades?

Cannabis is a drug just like every other. It's not safe unregulated. This is evidence that we should regulate and provide safe guidelines on usage.

But I know so many people that spread that you can't eat or smoke to much cannabis. That level of ignorance is no better.

I've read a little about it once in a while. Apparently one of the ways to treat this is to administer haloperidol, an antipsychotic, to relieve the symptoms. It's not a very long lasting condition either, especially if the user can recognize that weed's causing it and just stops for a little while.

I am an old fellow who has been using cannabis almost daily since 1966. I have never heard of these symptoms. I hang out with many other old people with similar profiles. I have asked around nobody has heard of these symptoms. This article reads like bad AI.

I smoked dope and hash like a fiend when I was a kid, I never experienced or even heard of this.

Though I did get the munchies.

And then they go all satanic and do murder.

Youth face unique risks. The brain continues to develop until about age 25, and THC exposure during this critical window can impair cognitive functions like memory, learning and emotional regulation.

Any article quoting this is a huge red flag. This is a talking point repeatedly used to strip those 18-25 of their civil rights. The truth is your brain doesn't stop developing at 25. Your brain never stops developing and changing. 25 is just the age where studies on brain development tend to stop.

Also, another huge red flag of this article is the complete lack of the word "alcohol" in it. Any article on the effects of cannabis abuse that don't provide proper context, namely comparing the severity effects of alcohol, is highly suspect.

This is an interesting article. I’d like to see more research done into the consumption habits of the youth that are being affected. The article touches on potency from flower being above 25%, which is higher yield than we’ve previously had, even since legalization in Canada. But I think the bigger factors here are possibly two fold. First being how THC is being consumed. I’ve noticed younger and newer consumers trending towards vapes. They have a much higher THC concentration. Live resins around 70-85%, distillate up to 92% and diamonds going to 99%. And people absolutely fly through these carts. Second being where is the product coming from. Is this legally regulated with the limits in place, or is coming from the grey market where you can get up to 1-2k mg of THC in a single gummy? Overall a concerning trend, but something that needs to be looked into deeper as to where the root cause is. I highly doubt it’s solely from dry flower.