A man who was taken to hospital with longer-than-normal erections – including one that lasted a staggering 12 hours – likely had the condition due to his cannabis use.
A team of doctors have discovered the “first known case of cannabis-associated priapism in a patient where all other known causes of priapism have been excluded”.
Priapism is a long-lasting, painful erection that lasts more than four hours and is unrelated to sexual activity. The 32-year-old healthy African American man was admitted to a hospital in Macon, Georgia, after complaining of persistent erections – with his latest lasting an entire day.
But two weeks later, the same patient went back to the hospital – this time because of a six-hour erection, again unrelated to
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