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[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (6 children)
  • Reefer Madness
  • You’ll turn gay after one joint
  • They’re spraying the weed with rat poison
  • It’ll make you scromit
  • Your skin will melt off

These are all 100% exactly the same, in that they’re all propaganda

[–] Watermark710@piefed.social 23 points 4 days ago (3 children)

CHS is 100% a real thing, my wife has it. If she smokes more than a bowl a week, she will scromit. She developed CHS about 18 months after she first started smoking with me. I've been smoking for about 40 years, and I've never developed CHS. We're not sure exactly why some people get it and some people don't, but it is a real phenomenon that can happen to some cannabis users.

I'm pro-weed, pro-legalization, and generally in favor of personal freedom. But pot is not for everyone. It makes my wife incredibly sick. My (adult) daughter gets panic attacks from smoking pot, so she abstains.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What is the screaming part of it?

[–] Watermark710@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

It's very painful.

[–] BellyPurpledGerbil@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I get what you're trying to say. But the image OP displayed is actually propaganda. I get the feeling a lot of people don't know what propaganda means and think it's only something a government does to make you a gungho patriot.

If the argument, info, message, whatever form of communication being delivered to you, is designed to appeal to your emotions, or sway your opinion, even if it contains some mote of truth, it's propaganda. Smokey the Bear is propaganda. To guilt you into not starting forest fires. It's for a decent cause, but it's no less a mascot designed to alter the behaviour of the populace.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

A bit of a low bar, as this comment itself is Propoganda... And I agree, everything is and should be treated like propoganda.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Smoking also produces a host of other chemicals, and like tobacco, plenty of harmful ones. It may not be a cannabinoid issue, rather a reaction with some combustion byproduct.

I'm not a doctor, so feel free to disregard any of that :)

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[–] DillDough@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

CHS is a real thing, just not as portrayed by the OP. And the US government absolutely sprayed fuckloads of weed with paraquat back in the day, we have declassified files about it, there were hospitalizations, lifelong issues like Parkinson's and even deaths from it.

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[–] radish@lemmy.blahaj.zone 67 points 5 days ago

Wallace and Scromit

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago (2 children)

this opens so many new opportunities!

  • scurinating - screaming while urinating
  • scrawning - screaming while yawning
  • screeping - screaming while sleeping
  • scrapping - screaming while crapping
  • screating - screaming while eating
  • scrscreaming - screaming while screaming
[–] drsilverworm@midwest.social 16 points 5 days ago (4 children)
  • scrying - screaming while crying
  • scraying - screaming while praying
  • scwerking - screaming while twerking
  • screcreting - screaming while secreting
  • screditating - screaming while meditating
  • scroomscrolling - screaming while doomscrolling
[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

scroomscrolling - screaming while doomscrolling

ahhhhhhhhhh

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 10 points 5 days ago

scrscreaming

It's called throat singing

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The quality of our drug war propaganda is going to shit along with everything else the US makes

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[–] BoosBeau@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

screxisting - screaming while existing

scronscious - screaming while conscious

scrasturbating - screaming while masturbating (personal favorite of mine)

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[–] barkybeak@lemmy.zip 25 points 5 days ago (20 children)

How much is too much? My wife and I smoke a joint at night 7 days a week for the past year. Is that too much?

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Oh you can relax, this is 100% propaganda. The bots are going to light me up for this, but it’s just not a real documented thing

[–] sidelove@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Raises hand meekly... I do in fact get this if I've been consistent for a long-ass time, not necessarily the dose size, but I swear to god you could replace my pen with ipecac and it would be the same experience. That said, long breaks "reset" it for me.

And while I don't personally know anyone with the same problem, there are thousands of stories both online and IRL for me of "friend of a friend can't smoke weed anymore because of it".

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[–] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

Its extremely well documented. This is exactly why you shouldnt take medical advice online seriously. It just stems from an over saturation of cannaboid receptors. The same receptors whose antiemetic effects are useful for cancer patients or other nausea prone patients can be reversed by over saturation of the receptor. It can be fixed typically by a period of abstinence that lets the receptors reset, but some people can never really partake again.

I say this as someone who worked as a nursing assistant and used to be an anatomy/biology tutor in college. I also have smoked way more weed than any of you over the past decade. If you havent seen any evidence of this, its because you have no idea how to look.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

What is the screaming part

[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 days ago

I don't think you've smoked more weed than me.

[–] texture@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I also have smoked way more weed than any of you over the past decade

well now im going to assume the whole message is nonsense. good day.

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[–] protist@retrofed.com 12 points 5 days ago

Pretty sure this is actually a real thing, however this Philadelphia Inquirer bit is def written like propaganda

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[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (5 children)

If Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome is real then it's extremely rare. Just look at People like Willie Nelson or Snoop. Fact is this syndrome was only first described after Colorado legalized cannabis recreationally. So even though many many people smoked just as much before legalization it somehow only became an issue afterward? Anecdotally I know a lot of people who smoke a lot of weed. Personally neither my wife and I have been sober for more than maybe a month in the last decade and a half, and I still smoke a lot more than just half a j at the end of the day. Sometimes if I don't smoke and I don't eat I get kinda nauseous. The same thing will happen if I do smoke and I don't eat. I have/get every illness, if this was a thing I would have it lol

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 5 days ago

Yeah, legalization widens the sample group of users effectively, which will cause rarer symptoms to appear among people who have sensitivities to things they wouldn't otherwise have known

[–] protist@retrofed.com 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I would bet it happens more among people who overconsume edibles, which definitely became more accessible after legalization

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[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If you're scromitting less than 4 times a day I think you're in the clear.

[–] Ragallos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Let's see, wake up, dab, scromit, eat potato, drink coffee, brush teeth, dab, do homework, scromit, go to class, go to work, come home, dab, do more homework, scromit, brush teeth, go to bed.

Phew, just made it on a normal day!

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[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 days ago

Call your doctor if a scrommit lasts longer than four hours, though!

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

"How much is too much" really depends on the person, but I'll venture to say that a single shared joint a day is not enough to induce scromiting in anyone remotely tolerant.

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Smoking weed can be just as bad for your lungs as cigarettes. It creates tar deposits and can affect your vascular system as well.

You should consider vaporizers or using oils.

As far as frequency goes, I treat it like alcohol. I consume it on occasion to relax, during social events, concerts, etc. Any more frequent becomes a habit. That's when it's a problem.

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Reefer madness

[–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 9 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Is it possible to vomit without screaming? Am I just a drama queen?

[–] Watermark710@piefed.social 7 points 4 days ago

It's entirely possible. I could vomit 3 feet away from you, and all you'd hear is the puke hitting the floor. I developed the ability to stealth vomit when I was a secret alcoholic and didn't want people to get suspicious.

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[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

Truly the word of the century.

I needed a term for the urge I feel every time I read the news, and now I have it.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

If you have CHS or CHS like symptoms try a fat soluble thiamine supplement.

Most Americans are actually thiamine deficient.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8533683/

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Interesting. Although users in Philadelphia can cross the river to New Jersey to buy legal cannabis, it's only available in Pennsylvania with a medical card. I have to wonder if these cases are coming from people who bought weed legally in a neighboring state, or is it happening with people who consumed unregulated alternatives (like Delta-8) from places like smoke shops and gas stations?

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

So maybe they're just vomiting because they went to NJ

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (4 children)

No, its from legit sources. It's been a more and more popular diagnosis the last 5 or 6 years. I first saw it around 2018 in a legal state. One someone has it they kind of just have it and any THC use will cause the symptoms. It's n/v and abd pain characterized by recent cannabis use in a chronic cannabis use patient. I've never seen it in anyone who described themselves as moderate. Relief with hot showers and worsening with cannabis use are the diagnostic criteria other than personal/social hx.

The doctors I worked with felt like it was due to the low price and availability of concentrates.

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[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (9 children)

My gastroenterologist had this on the short list of why I was vomiting randomly but 1. It's not screaming 2. Hot baths didn't help in the slightest (I wished) and 3. I don't smoke only eat it.

Current going plan is cyclical vomiting syndrome. Yaaay.

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