Man suffers rare flu-like syndrome from smoking medical marijuana

Kellee Azar and KATU | January 4th 2017

A man says his medical marijuana made him violently ill, and Portland-area doctors say they’ve seen more cases of the illness since recreational pot became legal in Oregon.

Matthew Johnson says he suffers from anxiety, PTSD and has chronic pain from a car accident.

He says it helped him for many years, until he recently started seeing flu-like symptoms.

Man suffers rare flu-like syndrome from smoking medical marijuana