'New' cannibis sydrome kills your puppies and kittehs!

[Nooby]

Anyone have any info on this BS?

 

"Heavy hit: cannabis syndrome alert

 

* March 23, 2009 - 5:08PM

 

There is mounting evidence to support the existence of a syndrome afflicting heavy cannabis users, after the world's first cases were found in South Australia.

 

The condition "cannabinoid hyperemesis" was first identified in a group of about 20 heavy drug users in the Adelaide hills in 2004, and a new case has emerged this time in the US.

 

The syndrome is characterised by nausea, stomach pain and bouts of vomiting - ill effects which, oddly, sufferers say they get some relief from by having a hot shower or bath.

 

The new case, involving a 22-year-old man in Omaha, is published in the World Journal of Gastroenterology where doctors were also told to consider it when treating people with unexplained vomiting.

 

"Given the high prevalence of chronic cannabis abuse worldwide and the paucity of reports in the literature, clinicians need to be more attentive to the clinical features of this under-recognised condition," writes Dr Siva Sontineni, and colleagues, from the Creighton University Medical Centre.

 

In the US case, the sufferer had been smoking marijuana daily and in heavy doses for six years. This eventually led to bouts of vomiting lasting two to three hours daily, and this was worse after meals.

 

As with South Australian cases, the young man initially turned to "compulsive hot bathing behaviour" to relieve the symptoms but he was not cured until he gave up smoking cannabis altogether.

 

Adelaide-based drug expert and emergency ward doctor, David Caldicott, said he had seen three cases of the illness and it was possibly also under-reported by sufferers.

 

"We're probably seeing the tip of the iceberg in the emergency departments. It's probably far more common but far milder [in the broader community]," he said.

 

Little was known about how cumulative cannabis use could lead to vomiting and, particularly, why sufferers would find some relief in hot bathing, Dr Caldicott also said.

 

"That's a distinct and unanimously recurrent feature of this condition, and we don't know why," he said.

 

"Grown men, screaming in pain, sweating profusely, vomiting every 30 seconds and demanding to be allowed to use the shower. It's a very dramatic presentation."

 

Dr Caldicott said the condition had been identified in a small number of cannabis users "but in the medical community it is now considered to be a real condition".

 

The National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre, based at the University of NSW, is taking a more conservative approach.

 

Centre director Jan Copeland said more cases would need to emerge before it could be considered a new syndrome linked to chronic cannabis use.

 

"It is not unusual for there to be significant mental and physical health complications with this level of cannabis use," Professor Copeland said.

 

For more information on cannabis, the centre has a free national helpline: 1800 304050. "

 

http://www.smh.com.au/world/science/heavy-...3v.html?page=-1

[Naycha]

20 anecdotal cases after thousands of years of cannabis use by humans, sounds like absolute crap to me.

[entheofarm]

There are holes all through this story,

 

Of the 20 SA users only 9 were used for the research. So the other 11 were never studied.

 

Cyclical Vomitting occurs in a percentage of the general population and may actually occur in a smaller percentage for pot smokers.

 

 

http://www.ukcia.org/research/CannabinoidH...Hyperemesis.pdf

[Naycha]

I had a bad case of gastro recently and I have found on a number of occasions that for me cannabis is actually a great anti-emetic.

[pixiemb]

maybe they all just had caught the same serious case of something like giardia? .. was just listening to the local news re Mardi Grass --- yet again the same story as every other year "more police blah blah" ... this is a demonstration against prohibition and not a 'drug fest' as they claim. just media making a mountain over nothing just like they just did with Roy doing some celebrating (cricket - andrew symonds) sorry a cricket tragic

 

how could we possibly know if the story is true as there is as said above only a 'media' level of hype research done .. bit of a joke I reckon

[danoz]

Look no one is saying in this article to stop smoking or even cut down! as it does is report that there has been some bizzar cases of this syndrom pop-up. WHY DO WE HAVE TO GET DO SENTIVE ABOUT THIS!!!! there was nothing offensive about this artical - why is it BS ??

 

Quote - 20 cases after thousands of years of use ?

- the internet and, modern hostipals that make reports, and the media are not thousands of years old so who would we know.

 

quote - "holes in this study why wernt the other 11 studied"

a) only certain people can participate in a study there can be no confounding factors about the person now we wouldnt want confounded people in our study would we maybe then this site would have something real to dig its teeth into.

the person has to want to participate - 9 out of 11 is pretty dam good participation level when no is paid

 

 

READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE "There is mounting evidence to support the existence" - the article doesnt even say it exists just that it looks like it might.

 

"the sufferer had been smoking marijuana daily and in heavy doses for six years." thats saying to me that weed is pretty fucken good for ya i recon if i ate carrots everyday in heavy doses for a year my liver would pack it in from vit A toxicity.

 

STOP BEING SO PRECIOUS its ok no one is trying to take your weed away from u - apart from maybe the law

[hardeyes]

Alcohol makes me sick, still not learn. Pot does not make me feel unwell anytime! Cept when not going as good as could.

[freddie]

STOP BEING SO PRECIOUS its ok no one is trying to take your weed away from u - apart from maybe the law

 

Maybe they are feeling precious from years of sensationalist headlines and misleading stories. Such as this:

"Heavy hit: cannabis syndrome alert

[Frazz]

Look no one is saying in this article to stop smoking or even cut down! as it does is report that there has been some bizzar cases of this syndrom pop-up. WHY DO WE HAVE TO GET DO SENTIVE ABOUT THIS!!!! there was nothing offensive about this artical - why is it BS ??

 

Quote - 20 cases after thousands of years of use ?

- the internet and, modern hostipals that make reports, and the media are not thousands of years old so who would we know.

 

quote - "holes in this study why wernt the other 11 studied"

a) only certain people can participate in a study there can be no confounding factors about the person now we wouldnt want confounded people in our study would we maybe then this site would have something real to dig its teeth into.

the person has to want to participate - 9 out of 11 is pretty dam good participation level when no is paid

 

 

READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE "There is mounting evidence to support the existence" - the article doesnt even say it exists just that it looks like it might.

 

"the sufferer had been smoking marijuana daily and in heavy doses for six years." thats saying to me that weed is pretty fucken good for ya i recon if i ate carrots everyday in heavy doses for a year my liver would pack it in from vit A toxicity.

 

STOP BEING SO PRECIOUS its ok no one is trying to take your weed away from u - apart from maybe the law

 

Cant help yourself can you danoz ... well neither can I

 

what a load of crock, the quoted story has no author , sydney morning rag has a litany of false/incorrect stories for which it regularly has to apologise ..

 

just to list a few ..

http://www.regrettheerror.com/tag/sydney-morning-herald

http://blog.terencecarterphotography.com/?...-morning-herald

http://www.vexnews.com/news/2935/wrong-syd...ddock-revealed/

 

smh are by and large a group of successful grubby media hacks publishing infotainment in between alcoholic binges

and cannabis is and always has been fair game to take a swipe at when its a slow news day,

fricken gutter bums ... hang them from the harbour bridge by their balls if they do have any ..

teach them to spread bullshit about my g/f mary j

 

[Radic]

yo Danoz

because it is a lie that cannabis caused this strange desease

and they know it

THC is scientificlly proven to be antinausea

thats why doctors recomend it for aids and cancer suffers during chiemo to stop waisting syndrome

so they can eat and hold it down and get better

 

check dis

 

click dat link

seen

its a youtube clip atrue

but is is actual scienfific test results presented be the head rescearchers

here is the reasoning from their site

Even as the federal government calls for more research into medical marijuana, it has refused to study it's own patients, who receive monthly shipments of Cannabis though the I.N.D.(Investigational New Drug Program). One patient, appearing at the 2002 Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics where this series was presented, had received 300 "joints" per month for 20 years.

Quantifiable and assayed for THC, the government-grown marijuana is low quality, but has suceeded in treating the conditions for which it was prescribed, with little apparent harmful effects.

Patients Out of Time, hosts of the conference, knew this opportunity for good science shouldn't be missed, so it enlisted the help of doctors and researchers to perform physical and pyschological tests on four of the legal patients: Elvy Musikka; Irvin Rosenfeld; George McMahon and a MS patient.

Dr. Ethan Russo, co-ordinator of the study, first presents patient demographics; medical conditions; and dosage levels, then lists tests performed, including:

MRI scans; chest x-rays and pulminory function tests; neuro-pychological exams; endocrine and immune system tests.

The entire one hour presentation from which Part 1 is edited can be viewed at:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...

including the "Beck Depression Inventory", which showed a remarkable lack of clinical depression in the legal marijuana patients(considering their serious medical conditions),as Dr. Russo challenges the "attitude among gov't officials that euphoria is a bad thing".

Three of the legal patients tell their personal stories at the Portland conference:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...

Introduced by Al Byrne and Mary Lynn Mathre, founders of Patients Out of Time. Please visit us at

http://www.medicalcannabis.com

DVDs of this and other conferences are available.

 

irey guidance