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Alice Moon couldn’t stop throwing up.
She had made a name for herself as an online cannabis influencer, but after a weed-infused dinner in a Malibu home in 2018, she spent more than two weeks constantly puking—unable to keep down food or water, going back and forth to urgent care for IVs, and at one point growing so weak she passed out in her yard. She was finally ready to accept that her digestive issues might be caused by all the cannabis she was consuming—a rare disorder called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS.
Patients looking for facts around CHS faced an information landscape that was “largely terrible.” Then, a feud between Moon and a scientist researching genetic markers for the disease made it worse.
Visit the link in our bio to learn about how the public spat unfolded and derailed the scientist’s research.
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