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Will Smoking Pot Make Me Vomit Forever?

Cyclic vomiting syndrome is on the rise among adults, and marijuana use may be partially to blame.
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By all accounts, DARE—the acronym for Drug Abuse Resistance Education, an anti-drug education program founded in 1983 and, for a time, taught in of American middle and high schools—doesn’t work: Students who’ve undergone the program are to use drugs as those who haven’t, and may be even more likely to drink or smoke cigarettes. That said: DARE definitely worked on . As a high-school student the only thing I feared more than sex was drugs. Though I drank plenty in college, I refused to even be in the same room as marijuana (let alone everything else my classmates were doing). I held out until I was 24, and then

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