Scromiting is a condition affecting cannabis users that combines intense vomiting with actual screaming.

An ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for this condition was introduced 10/2025, facilitating recognition and tracking.

During the 8 months from October 2025 through May 2026, ER visits for Scromiting jumped a remarkable 370%.

A new CDC report indicates that symptoms can potentially occur as early as the 1st year of cannabis use.

Over the last two decades, common inquiries around the procurement of cannabis have evolved from, “Will this get me high?” to “Will I ‘green out’ if I take more than one of these gummies?” Now, there’s a new and different cause for cannabis-related concern: “Scromiting.”

Scromiting is the name for a relatively recent condition affecting cannabis users, a portmanteau for the intense vomiting combined with actual screaming that defines it. While this may sound like something from an ancient scared-straight film like Reefer Madness or perhaps a contemporary horror flick, these disturbing, often frightening symptoms are the result of cannabis hyperemesis syndrome (CHS), a literally gut-wrenching disorder that triggers severe nausea and debilitating abdominal pain—with vomiting/retching occurring up to 4-5 times an hour, according to the Cleveland Clinic.[1]

People afflicted with CHS are presenting in hospital emergency rooms with increasing frequency. While ER cases doubled between 2017 and 2021, affecting around 2.75 million people in the US,[2] from January 2023 through September 2025, a recently published U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report found that the rate of........

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