Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome Often Misdiagnosed, Study Finds

As cannabis use has grown more widespread and socially accepted, medicine has struggled to keep pace with the conditions it can produce — among them a syndrome born of heavy, prolonged use that too often escapes recognition in the very clinics meant to address it. Patients arrive with real suffering and leave with wrong answers, caught between a substance newly normalized and a medical establishment not yet fluent in its consequences. The gap between what is happening in the body and what is written on the chart is, in this case, a gap with human cost.