A 23-year-old Thai man who got into a cannabis-induced psychosis “completely amputated” his own penis using scissors, doctors said.
The man inflicted life-altering injury upon himself after he smoked 2g of marijuana, which is equivalent to six joints, in two bongs.
Two hours after smoking up, the man had a painful erection with “severe persistent sharp pain” in his penis.
The man had an erection without sexual stimulation and developed paranoia when his glans started to look distorted.
To get rid of the severe pain, the man then decided to cut off his penile skin several times before amputating it completely with a pair of scissors.
The man was taken to hospital after the bleeding did not stop for two hours where the doctors said the injury left him with a remaining penile stump of 2cm in length, without the skin and a 5cm laceration in his scrotum.
The incident was revealed in a…
