As VICE NEWS reports, a man who snuck a bag of cannabis into prison in his nose 18 years ago has finally had the dried-up weed removed from his nasal cavity, according to a new case report published in British Medical Journal Case Reports.
The patient, who is now 48, slipped the package into his right nostril, and was able to hide it from prison guards this way. But when he tried to retrieve it, he accidentally lodged the pot deeper into his nasal cavity and assumed that he had unknowingly swallowed it at some point.
The patient with the marijuana-based rhinolith said that he had a history of nasal obstruction and frequent sinus infections, but the source of those symptoms wasn’t noticed until he sought treatment for painful headaches. A CT scan of his brain revealed the “rubber capsule containing degenerate vegetable/plant matter,” as Smith’s team describe it, which doctors removed under general anaesthesia.
Gvantsa Chanturia
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