Canada

I like how "used it in the past year" in one paragraph mysteriously becomes "regular, heavy use" in the next.

Heavy cannabis use is associated with heightened risks of anxiety, depression, psychosis and self-harm.

So is antidepressant use.

When I was a kid it was alcohol poisoning and lots of kids even in my rural community died in ditches and at bush parties. There were 300 kids in my high school. Grades 9-12. We had 6 deaths from alcohol. Either consumption or drunk driving. I'd be interested to know how many kids are dying from cannabis ingestion or accidents related to.

Any comparison to alcohol?

Cause I'm hearing that youth are suffering from nausea, which sounds a lot better than dying of alcohol poisoning.

Maybe if the world wasn't burning these youth's future in plain sight they'd be less stressed and depressed?

Substance abuse is a symptom of, not a cause of, mental health problems.

I'm a daily user for years and I've never heard of this. I wonder if it has to do with the way they're consuming it. Shady vapes from the internet could be causing trouble, not the thc itself.

Do this report have actual numbers of youth "landing in the ER with vomiting from cannabis use", or is this just percentages, none which seem directly related?

Can't provide employment or affordable housing to our youth, but we can shame their for their totally unexplainable drug use.

This is just the symptom of a much bigger underlying issue. We can talk about regulation all we want or even banning it, but it won't solve the big problem of what young adults have to face today in society at large. They are ill prepared for the real world, bombarded by social media influences 24/7, this is just another coping mechanism they've turned to.

Excessive use of alcohol, vapes, sugar etc. are all just as bad. But hey, the stats are saying 16-19 year olds at 43 percent - last I checked the legal age to purchase cannabis was 19 in Canada. So, anything under that would be considered illegal and I'd solely place the blame on the parents - just like any other substance abuse. Alas, that still doesn't solve the mental pressures that these young adults will need to face (housing, employment opportunities, global factors - climate change etc.). We can educate all that we can, but it won't change the reality. The reality is that it takes real political will and a strong mandate from voters (we all know our federal government is like a bunch of companies in a trench coat and that needs to change) to actually FIX the money side of problems. I am not surprised that the 20-24 year old's use cannabis (48% claimed by the article) - record inflation anyone? high groceries? lack of good livable wage employment? housing?

Here's my hot take, cannabis gets more bad rep than alcohol when alcohol, IMO, is worse.

When I had a gallstone induced pancreatitis they tried to tell me this is what I had. Luckly they still ran some blood work and got me scheduled for emergency surgery.

It was pretty annoying having the doctor trying to blame my severe pain on cannabis use though :/

I am an old fellow who has been using cannabis almost daily since 1966. I have never heard of these symptoms. I hang out with many other old people with similar profiles. I have asked around nobody has heard of these symptoms. This article reads like bad AI.

I don't buy this "increased potency" argument as it sounds like the same anti-weed shit they've been saying since the 90s. We had concentrates and hash and vaporizers in the 2000s. Potency of the flower doesn't matter much when you can rip volcano vapes from dawn till dusk. All these "CHS" stories also always mention the dumb "hurr Cannabis psychosis" shit which is the other Hallmark of old anti weed propaganda that makes me skeptical.

Idk, it kind of feels like hysteria or some related comorbidity with munchies. I've definitely known people who make themselves sick over and over again from eating too many Doritos

The interesting part is that CHS shares the bathing thing with the Cyclic Vomitting Syndrome. There's something similar that must be causing both

I've read a little about it once in a while. Apparently one of the ways to treat this is to administer haloperidol, an antipsychotic, to relieve the symptoms. It's not a very long lasting condition either, especially if the user can recognize that weed's causing it and just stops for a little while.

I smoked dope and hash like a fiend when I was a kid, I never experienced or even heard of this.

Though I did get the munchies.

Why is everyone so combative as if this has not been well known for decades?

Cannabis is a drug just like every other. It's not safe unregulated. This is evidence that we should regulate and provide safe guidelines on usage.

But I know so many people that spread that you can't eat or smoke to much cannabis. That level of ignorance is no better.

And then they go all satanic and do murder.