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Doctors are reporting a growing number of people coming into emergency rooms with stomach pain and unrelenting vomiting. They compulsively take hot showers. Anti-nausea medication offers little relief. The unsuspecting culprit is cannabis 鈥 overconsumption can lead to what is known as cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS).
鈥淢any patients with CHS have violent hurling when they arrive to the emergency department,鈥 says at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. They often show up weak and dehydrated, and sometimes lose consciousness, he says.
Cannabis is commonly associated with relieving…



