In 2020, 35 percent of seniors, and as many as 44 percent of college students, reported using marijuana in the past year.Įlysse got sober before entering college but soon found that seemingly everyone on her dorm floor habitually used weed. However, over the two-year interval from 2017 to 2019, the number of kids who reported vaping marijuana over the last 30 days rose among all grades, nearly tripling among high school seniors. National surveys suggest that marijuana use among 8th, 10th and 12th graders decreased in 2021, a change partly attributed to the pandemic. The Food and Drug Administration has sent warnings about various cannabis products, including edibles, but so far federal regulators haven’t taken action to curb potency levels because cannabis is federally illegal, said Gillian Schauer, the executive director of the Cannabis Regulators Association, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that convenes government officials involved in cannabis regulation across more than 40 states and territories.Ĭalifornia lawmakers are now considering adding a mental health warning label to cannabis products specifying that the drug may contribute to psychotic disorders. She added that the best way to keep marijuana away from teens is to implement laws that allow the cannabis industry to replace illegal markets, which do not adhere to age restrictions, state-mandated testing or labeling guidelines. “In general, we do not support arbitrary limits on potency as long as products are properly tested and labeled,” Bethany Moore, a spokeswoman for the National Cannabis Industry Association, said in a statement. It wasn’t until 2021, after a half dozen trips to the emergency room for stomach illness, including some hospital stays, that a gastroenterologist diagnosed her with cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, a condition that causes recurrent vomiting in heavy marijuana users. “I felt like my body was levitating.”Īnother time she estimated that she threw up at least 20 times in the span of two hours. During one episode, Elysse said, she threw up in a mall bathroom for an hour. At first she and her parents - and even her doctors - were baffled. Starting in 2020 she began having mysterious bouts of illness where she would throw up over and over again. We tried tough love, we tried everything, to be honest with you,” Elysse’s father said of her addiction. “We got her in a program to help her with it.
Her parents didn’t find out until about one year later, in 2019. But because these products were derived from cannabis, and nearly everyone she knew was using them, she assumed they were relatively safe. The oil and waxes she bought from dealers were typically about 90 percent THC, the psychoactive component in marijuana.
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