Talk:Intravenous marijuana syndrome

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Title change
The person who reverted my change to cannabis used as justification WP:OR, original research which has no place in our encyclopedia. We use the term cannabis because that is the scientific term so the revert needs to be undone. Thanks, SqueakBox talk 19:26, 19 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Please find a ref to establish the existence of something you have decided to call "Intravenous Cannabis Syndrome". It seems to not exist in the medical literature.  NJGW (talk) 19:29, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * While I do that you need to justify using what is essentially a slang term outside the US. Either that or make it clear this is a US specific syndrome in the article. It may be better to redirect and merge into Cannabis (drug) which is what the article is about, ie a cannabis syndrome, but the current title is clearly unsatisfactory re wkipedia naming policies which have long ago chosen to use the word cannabis except when dealing with US specific topics such as legalization issues in the US. Thanks, SqueakBox talk 19:39, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Please find a ref for "Marijuana" as slang. It is not listed as such in dictionaries and is used extensively in news and scholarly lit.  NJGW (talk) 20:19, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd say the fact that "Marijuana" is Spanish for "Mary Jane", a female name, gives creedence to the fact that it's slang. 216.227.39.236 (talk) 20:18, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * This has been argued exhaustively elsewhere. The fact that all the literature mentions marijunan is indicative of lack of notability. Thanks, SqueakBox talk 00:15, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Removing the deletion notice
The reference used links to the National Institute of Health, which is as credible as one can get. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blueharvest26 (talk • contribs) 01:42, 24 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Mulitple refs would be better. Thanks, SqueakBox talk 02:06, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Some background would be nice.
While I don't dispute that this article is grounded in fairly airtight sources, it needs some background so that it at least makes sense. Basic questions like what is cannabis broth, why would anyone inject it, and what exactly manifests as this syndrome? Is this some ill-conceived attempt to get high by IV'ing marijuana? I've only ever heard of that as a sort of internet joke, usually trolling easily riled stoners by saying one's little brother injected "a whole pack of marijuana cigarettes" and died. 76.118.92.242 (talk) 21:56, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I can see some inexperienced drug users or stupid college kids trying to do something like this. What I'd like to see is more of the actual symptoms listed; they speculate it could be caused by particulate matter getting through the cotton, but it's hard to tell how reasonable a theory this is without the symptoms to compare it against. It's apparently documented. 23.233.58.250 (talk) 09:44, 4 December 2015 (UTC)