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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2016 Jul 4;166:100–108. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.06.034

Table 5.

Sub-analysis of specific extreme effects from dabbing described in tweets

Example tweets

Themes Number of tweets Percent among 333 tweets coded for extreme effects a Percent among the 3,540 tweets coded as related to dabbing marijuana Example tweets
Physiological effects 124 37% 3.5%

 - Passed out or loss of consciousness 46 14% 1.3%
  • I was in a dab coma yesterday

  • another person to pass out off the dabs

 - Respiratory effects 30 9% 0.8%
  • Dabs so hard my lungs hurt

  • Last night I took a fat ass fucking shatter dab that I felt like I tore a lung or something cause of the massive cough attack I had

 - Loss of body control/inability to move 12 4% 0.3%
  • When I first tried dabs I was stuck like I couldn't fucking move

  • That night I smoked dabs and got drunk I was saying that I couldn't get off the ground because my feet were too heavy. Lmfao!

 - Nauseous/Vomiting 10 3% 0.3%
  • I just took a dab and almost vomited everywhere.

  • Gross dabs fucked my stomach up

 - Perspiring 6 2% 0.2%
  • Dunked a dab and im sweatin whooo

  • That dab during my lunch break had ya girl sweatin

 - Crying/tearing up 5 2% 0.1%
  • dab hit was so hit i started tearing

  • Let her hit the dab once and she was crying tears of dabs


Cognitive/Psychological effects 55 17% 1.6%

 - Confusion or distorted reality 37 11% 1.0%
  • Canna caps and dabs. Body is entering the promised land and my brain is saying what's up to mars.

  • First time I smoked ever I got a huge dab and I was crawling around a basement asking furniture to take me to the hospital.

 - Memory loss/forgetfulness 5 2% 0.1%
  • Dabs really mess up your memory for that entire day that you do them

  • Dabs before dinner is always exciting because half way there you forget where you're going then remember you're on your way to eat.


General (non-specific) effects 154 46% 4.4%
  • Dabs get me so high that I don't even realize I'm that high

  • Took my first dab Tuesday. Almost died.

  • gonna take 1 dab and die for 9 hours

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Humorous images/videos were excluded from this sub-analysis.