It’s genuinely more or less just more “reefer madness”.
If you actually read my comment and the study carefully, you might notice that.
For example:
Because there is no diagnostic code for CHS, we followed the previous literature identifying CHS ED visits as those in which vomiting (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Canada [ICD-10-CA] code R11) was the primary diagnosis and a cannabis harm (ICD-10-CA code F12 or T40.7) was an additional diagnosis.19,20 Since CHS is not widely recognized, we developed a secondary outcome measure termed sensitive CHS ED visits, which includes the primary outcome definition and an ED visit with a primary diagnosis of vomiting (ICD-10-CA code R11) plus an ED visit owing to a cannabis harm in the 6 months preceding or following the incident vomiting visit.
So, anyone who’s been labeled to have any sort of harm from cannabis, which a lot of people take to just be use of cannabis. I can show you a recording of a psychiatrist supposedly specialising in drugs and addiction, who told me “there is no safe amount of cannabis you can use”.
And then, when any of those roughly just users, report with vomiting to an ER even 6 months after someone has written down something about cannabis use, it get counted as “cannabis hyperemesis syndrome”.
So because legalisation has made doctors more aware they’re questioning youth more about cannabis use. And since it’s legal, the youths aren’t lying as much as they used to. But they still have the same amount of alcohol overdoses (ie getting so drunk you start vomiting) and if you then visit the ER even just for being too drunk or having a fever with vomiting, you’ll be counted as a “ER CHS patient”.
So you know. You really do need to go and read the things they claim, all the way down to the source. For one most of the things they source in those studies are studies which aren’t exclusively Canadian, making your “well the study is Canadian” argument a bit frail, since the study references other non-Canadian studies.
I’m not against regulation, and I think a boozecard model would be fantastic. For things that actually require it. We had the same in Finland, up until the 70’s, really.
It was from ‘44-’ 70 yeah.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratt_System
But see that was for booze, not beer. Since growing your own is also legal and east af, trying to control the amount of cannabis wouldn’t work in practice, and as someone who’s known daily users for years, I don’t think there is any inherent factor in cannabis which would cause this syndrome (“syndrome” = a collection of symptoms, not a disease in itself). It’s more bad reporting and bad understanding of the subject.
For one when you’re totally drunk, never smoked weed, you take a large hit of something strong, you can easily start to feel spinning such that you literally vomit like there’s no tomorrow. To the point people who haven’t seen it will genuinely consider taking them to the ER. And during something like that, it does help to be in a hot shower.
However as the drunkenness wears off, the person becomes even more nauseous, as they’re still plenty high without being used to it, and the hangover is creeping in.
But never have I ever seen anyone vomit from cannabis who hasn’t been drinking. I’m not saying they don’t exist or that this syndrome isn’t real. I’m just saying I don’t see a well-explained causal relationship. I just see a bunch of poor correlation, as always.
Anyways, yeah, register and limit. For actual drugs. That’s why booze was on the card but beer wasn’t. You can make that at home and it’s not strong enough to mess you up line vodka will do.
Just the same, cannabis should be legal and ecstasy and others legalised with the Bratt system. People don’t cook mdma at home if there’s some available to purchase legally.
Government is leaving out billions in drug money because there’s a huge market for illegal drugs just going completely unregulated and untaxed.