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• A 23-year-old Thai man's harrowing ordeal was documented in late January in the Journal of Medical Case Reports, Gizmodo reported. Doctors at Chiang Mai University wrote that the young man, who had been a regular user of cannabis but had stopped for three months, had resumed his habit, with devastating effects.
Two hours after hitting the bong, the man suffered a bout of psychosis and an "unwanted" erection, which prompted him to use scissors to "trim the penile skin several times."
However, he went too far, eventually ending up with just an inch-long stump.
At the hospital, doctors stopped his bleeding and created a new opening for his urethra, but his penis was too damaged to be reattached.
He was diagnosed with substance-induced psychotic disorder; after two weeks of hospitalization and anti-psychotic drugs, he reported no more symptoms. [Gizmodo, 2/1/2022]