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Stephen J. Farber, MD; Verny E. Huertas, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1976;136(3):337-339.

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We have recently examined two patients who suffered from the adverse effects of intravenously injected marihuana. A review of the English literature identified only four previous case reports^1-3 and mention of three others.⁴ Several recent studies^5-8 have described the clinical effects from experimental injection of the purified marihuana components ⁹-tetrahydrocannabinol and 11-OH-⁹-tetrahydrocannabinol; however, there are no controlled studies dealing with the clinical abnormalities induced by administration of crude marihuana extract. Our two patients shared the same broth and had almost identical clinical and laboratory findings. Their clinical course was similar to that described previously.^1-3

PATIENT SUMMARIES

PATIENT 1.—

A 21-year-old man was transferred to the University of Michigan Medical Center after evaluation and treatment for hypotension at a local emergency room. Twenty-two hours prior to admission, he had added the juice squeezed from watered marihuana cuttings to opium and boiled this mixture . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor. Dr Farber is now with the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Footnotes
Received for publication June 16, 1975; accepted June 27.

Reprint requests to Rackham Arthritis Research Unit, Kresge Medical Research Bldg, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (Dr Farber).

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