Posted on 03/11/2024 5:09:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association and funded by the National Institutes of Health found that those who smoke weed daily are at a significantly higher risk of suffering heart attack and stroke than those who don’t.
“We know that toxins are released when cannabis is burned, similar to those found in tobacco smoke,” said Abra Jeffers, a data analyst at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and former researcher at the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco, where the study was based.
“We’ve known for a long time that smoking tobacco is linked to heart disease, and this study is evidence that smoking cannabis appears to also be a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death in the United States,” Jeffers’ statement continued. “Cannabis use could be an important, underappreciated source of heart disease.”
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I’d like to see this study. Sounds interesting.
They try to make this sound like it’s a problem.
So, are they promoting smoking weed or against it?
You’ll never convince potheads of anything that threatens their high. Just another poison, of many, they will absorb. That is what mentally deficient means.
Unable and unwilling to understand and minimize things that can hurt and kill you.
What was the question man?
Wait — what?
If I developed a cancer and had to be on chemotherapy, I might weigh the risk and pick up cannabis in some other form, but toking a joint might be worse for me than the cancer and chemo combined.
Once people (collectively) decide on a certain thing, it can be the merits of an electric car, the reality of an impending climate crisis, covid and masks, the ill effects of booze years ago, or marijuana today, the ethical and so called “scientific” arguments will follow suit.
Suddenly, you get terms like gateway drug and ideas like psychological addiction becoming prominent arguments... Hint, ANYTHING which makes you feel good can be psychologically addictive. Masturbation is psychologically addictive. So are computer games, gambling, porn, comfort foods...
Most of the time, there is a shred of truth with these arguments. Climate is changing, and folks that smoke pot might really have more heart attacks. But the problem is usually not in correlation, but causality. Meaning, yeah climate is changing but is it because of our CO2 output? Unlikely. People that smoke pot have more heart attacks, that may even be true, but many people who use pot are ill (cancer, heart disease, insomnia, etc), they may already suffer from some sort of psychological issue and are in reality self-medicating no differently than I saw many of my peers do with booze when returning from war. I wonder, if you look at how many people taking sleep and anxiety medicine have heart attacks, would you see the same trend? If I had to guess, yes.
Marijuana is a drug. It is a real no kidding drug. You need to respect it. Even Tylenol kills people (we take OTC drugs not seriously) every year and while I do not see marijuana as some super addictive and dangerous drug, it still needs to be dealt with responsibly. A kid high in school every day wasting away is probably not a good thing. A consenting adult on a Friday evening after a hard week lighting up and relaxing may even be beneficial to that person. It’s a drug, treat like a drug. Don’t over villainize it or make it into more than it is, but also don’t make it entirely harmless because if abused it can hurt people (even though that’s pretty hard to do with pot).
Agreed. And yet, you’ll forgive me and other FReepers if we question the results of any NIH “study”, including this one.
fast forward a decade or two and there will be billion dollar settlements for all those harmed by this.
My cardiologist and neurologist think otherwise.
There is a subset of the population that weed can make insane.
It happened to a friend but his family was predisposed to paranoid schizophrenia. He had several relatives with it.
Do they really care
My daughter says she can’t stop smoking it. She’s hooked.
Yes...I think...maybe. 😜
Most of mass shooters recently have been young pot smokers that went schizo
I do not trust ANYTHING the government tells me.
People have some weird “faith” in government.
Government is a political institution and every decision made at the top levels have political and economic considerations, i.e. how will this help me and hurt my opponent, how will this help my department or agency (scope of powers, budget etc), how can this make money for one of my campaign donors or bring money into my state/city?
Government science is: DDT, daylight savings time, a gay gene (never found, but still mentioned as a matter of fact), electric cars, solar farms, 20% Covid mortality rates, CFLs, and paper recycling...
Government science proves that children need to be able to have access to puberty blockers without parental consent or they may suffer from horrible psychological trauma and have increased suicide rates. Do you believe that?
Government is no more immune from shoddy science than anyone else and it always tends to prove whatever the powers to be want to have sold as reality/truth to the public.
I’m not going to link all of them, but here’s one that just recently happened again (March 10): https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/climate/daylight-saving-time-electricity.html or https://www.saveonenergy.com/resources/daylight-saving-energy/ It was just another “sound good” stupid idea by government which politicians pushed so they got their name on something, the EPA got behind it of course, etc. But it accomplished NOTHING and we have known this for 20 years now. Will it ever go away? Doubtful.
Science et al. has become a cheap whore, no more than a seal of approval, a label stamped on every idea being pushed to the masses.
I can’t stop eating Twinkies either.
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