For the Culture By The Culture. ISSN: 3064-9331.
Opponents of adult-use legalization spent years warning that legal cannabis would drive teen marijuana use higher. More than a decade later, CDC, SAMHSA, and Monitoring the Future data show that the broad national surge never arrived, even as adult use increased and legal markets spread.
Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome is real, but the latest “scromiting” panic outruns the CDC data behind it. Pot Culture Magazine examines a new CHS diagnosis code, 199,565 emergency visits, a combined 15-to-24 age group, and the difference between a documented medical burden and an alarmist headline that turns hospital records into a teen weed emergency.