The Growing Danger of Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome

0:00 Speaker 1 Lynn’s Warriors, Lynn Shaw. Well, helping our children, well, grow up and to be well. Lynn, what do you have to report this week?

0:13 Speaker 2 Good morning, John. I hope no one is eating their breakfast right now, but I’m going to start with a question to you, John. John, have you heard about scrommeting? Do you know what scrommeting is? No clue. Okay. Vomiting and screaming. Vomiting. together. And it’s related, I want everybody to listen up and really listen good to this, it’s related to our kids. Because the Center for Disease

0:37 Control just put out a couple of weeks ago a report, has fallen by the wayside, I don’t see anybody talking about it, but we are right here on the Cats Roundtable, very powerful, that emergency room visits involving cannabis. Now here’s the official name, Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome, who could even say that, CHS, young people showing up in emergency rooms, ages especially like

1:00 15 to 22, where the biggest population, because it is associated, this vomiting and screaming, scrummeting, okay, to smoking or vaping or eating edibles of marijuana. And there’s even, John, something new. They’re using waxes for this delivery. So, This used to be something, this was always around, this kind of scrommeting, okay, this hyperemesis, but it was associated with people who had

1:30 years and years of smoking marijuana, right? And now we’re seeing it in kids. because the kids don’t have that delivery system. They’re vaping nonstop. They’re eating a whole bag of edibles, a whole bag of cookies. And also the marijuana today is different, John, from the marijuana of yesterday.

1:47 And we’re not suggesting there’s anything good coming from marijuana, but all these states, including New York, have legalized it. So we’re talking about something we want to get on the radar for every parent and grandparent, educator, and our policymakers to understand the health risks young people can face from this frequent cannabis use because this is a young

2:08 developing mind. It’s not the same as an adult. And it is rarely, again, even discussed. So the message is if your child is smoking, we hear a lot. I’ve heard it from parents. Oh, it’s harmless. Cannabis, marijuana, it is not harmless just because it’s illegal. And when your child tells you, which a lot of them do, well,

2:26 everybody’s doing it. No. You have to understand what your kids are consuming today. They’re consuming a lot of, frankly, poison. We work alongside the DEA, and they have given us their facts, and most drugs today, including marijuana, have fentanyl in them, and fentanyl is a poison. So parents have to know that their kids, if they’re using this, this

2:47 is a poison. And parents have to wake up, John, they have to admit, you know, what’s going on in their own home. They have to talk about this. We’ve had 200,000 emergency room visits in the last two years. Okay, that’s what’s on record, 200,000 with young people. I dare say the number’s always higher than what’s reported. But here’s

3:10 the other thing. Parents have to, if your child’s vomiting and weak or you think they have a stomach bug, you know they’re using marijuana, dehydrated, confused, fainting. I think a responsible parent or caregiver should should go and seek medical attention. Don’t hide any kind of cannabis use from a doctor. We also have families we work with where

3:31 the children, the teens, okay, especially teen boys, they have kind of this psychotic split, and they all have used cannabis, marijuana, smoking, usually vaping.

3:44 Speaker 1 So vaping and smoking marijuana and throwing up at the same time, and that’s what those words that you used before?

3:53 Speaker 2 Yeah, hyperemesis, but then they’ve shortened it because, you know, everything’s cutesy these days. We’ve got nicknames for everything, so they’re calling it scrommeting. screaming and vomiting, and more kids are suffering. Look, we work with health professionals across the country.

4:06 They’ve been reporting, I want to say for close to three years to me, about what’s going on, what’s showing up in our emergency rooms, and this is a major, major thing. And yet, John, nobody, well, we are, they’re not talking about it. We have to face it, but yet it’s legal. That’s always the argument. Well, it’s legal,

4:23 but our kids, their bodies, their brains, I mean, developing, they can’t handle this. Okay, and the release, it’s not, you know, people used to smoke this joint over, I don’t know, an hour or two. These are kids eating a whole bag of edibles at once and not realizing how it will hit their system. So people need to

4:40 be aware, admit it, stay involved, and get professional help if you see something like that. But kids need a different standard of protection than adults, and I wish our government would talk about this, okay? And we need better education also for doctors about all of this. Definitely the parents, definitely teachers if they see something. But you know what?

5:01 We are always focused on child safety, young people safety, family safety. So I want everybody to be aware. Talk to your child. That’s always number one. If you go to a doctor or an emergency room, don’t lie. Share accurate information. Become an advocate, okay? We need everybody to step up, John, and become a warrior because in the community,

5:21 that is what creates change. change. So if you see anything like this with your child, and remember, we know our children best. Whether you want to admit it or not, you know in your gut, look, kids are worth protecting before something happens. We shouldn’t have to wait and talk about, you know, emergency room visits and they’re vomiting and screaming

5:38 at the same time because they’re in so much pain, John. And there’s no cure for this. You know what the cure is? You throw somebody in a hot shower or bath and let it pass through. Now, that doesn’t seem like a very good cure. We shouldn’t even have to have somebody in that state in the first place, but

5:53 we need education, and we have to listen to our kids. But also, we have to demand accountability from the systems and companies that are putting out the product. So everybody should remember a child’s safety is more important than profit. But, John, what are they doing? They’re legalizing it. Further harm to kids.

6:10 Speaker 1 Well, let’s stay on top of it and keep the politicians informed. And that’s our jobs. And thank you so much for coming on every Sunday morning. Just to reiterate that to every mother and father out there. And we’ll catch up again real soon.

6:26 Speaker 2 Thank you, John. Lyndwarriors.org.