Since the legalization of recreational cannabis became legal in states like California and Massachusetts, hospitals have supposedly treated more cases of a curious condition that may affect
heavy cannabis users.
The illness, called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, can be a disaster for patients, causing intense stomach pain, nausea, and vomiting episodes that have been known to be relieved by hot showers or baths. Some doctors have said the illness may only be be cured by quitting the consumption of cannabis.
“It’s honestly hell,” said Alice Moon, 30, a marijuana industry public relations professional in Los Angeles who stopped consuming cannabis in January after vomiting for 16 days straight. “I looked like a skeleton.”
The strange condition, first identified in 2004, is tough to diagnose because symptoms can seem similar to many other diseases, doctors say, and because it can be unclear whether cannabis is causing the sickness or whether patients with unrelated conditions are self-medicating with cannabis. At the UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, doctors claim to see about one new teenager a week who they diagnose with the illness. Dr. Braden Kuo, a gastroenterologist at Mass General Hospital, said he believes some doctors are too quick to blame cannabis for the illnesses when they learn about a patient’s cannabis consumption. He believes many people with other illnesses — such as one that appears similar called cyclic vomiting syndrome — are misdiagnosed with the cannabis syndrome just because patients consume cannabis in an attempt to ease their nausea.
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