Urinary Retention Following Cannabis Ingestion

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WITH growing public acceptance of cannabis, use of this drug has spread to the older segment of the population. Although age brings certain rewards, it also brings a generalized decline in the functional reserve of most organ systems. It therefore seems reasonable to expect that this population will show more adverse reactions to cannabis. Report of a Case A 55-year-old man was referred for psychiatric evaluation because of depression and persistent low-back pain without physical or roentgenographic findings. He had been a moderately severe alcoholic for approximately 33 years. He stopped drinking altogether after he began smoking cannabis daily at age 50 years. Psychotherapy began in the spring of 1975, and his depression gradually lifted. The major psychiatric problem then appeared to be his passive-aggressive personality. Between November 1976 and August 1977, he ate leftover cannabis butts in the evening on four occasions. Each time, he awoke in the morning

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