- Mar 29, 2019
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Over the past week, i have researched and found some information that needs to be shared. it has to do with an illness called Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome, or CHS. CHS strikes persons who have used marijuana daily for long periods of time, usually several years. the symptoms are extreme nausea that lasts for days accompanied with vomiting episodes and extreme abdominal pain. the pain associated with the vomiting has caused a new word to be invented, "scromiting", which is screaming with pain while vomiting.
i fully realize that the above paragraph might read like a fictional horror tale made up by an anti-marijuana activist. i assure you that is not the case.
I used marijuana when i was a teenager and on into my 20's. i enjoyed it very much the first few times, say 20 or 30 times. but along in there somewhere, i started noticing that i was usually miserable when i smoked: nervous, paranoid, worried and unhappy. i started using it much less after that, not because i believed it was bad or in anyway harmful, but i had ceased to enjoy the high. i would occasionally smoke in different situations, but by about my 27th year, i had quit it altogether. until recently, i was strongly in favor of legalization (i am in the process of re-evaluating my stance on that.)
i will open another post to explain how i came to discover CHS.
i fully realize that the above paragraph might read like a fictional horror tale made up by an anti-marijuana activist. i assure you that is not the case.
I used marijuana when i was a teenager and on into my 20's. i enjoyed it very much the first few times, say 20 or 30 times. but along in there somewhere, i started noticing that i was usually miserable when i smoked: nervous, paranoid, worried and unhappy. i started using it much less after that, not because i believed it was bad or in anyway harmful, but i had ceased to enjoy the high. i would occasionally smoke in different situations, but by about my 27th year, i had quit it altogether. until recently, i was strongly in favor of legalization (i am in the process of re-evaluating my stance on that.)
i will open another post to explain how i came to discover CHS.