[DallasBiff]

We all know what the elephant in the room is.

Is Channel 4 part of the BBC? I'm surprised they did a story about this.

[Zhang Fei]

Until several years ago, the only time I smelled a skunk was out on the highway, after someone had run one over. In the past few years, I smell them everywhere. The legalization and quasi-legalization of marijuana has made its aroma ubiquitous. Unfortunately for its users, while the THC hit is immediate, the medical consequences, including heart damage, are long term.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heart-health/-marijuana-thc-heart-what-you-need-to-know-rcna125413
[However, recent studies have found links between marijuana use and cardiovascular problems, including abnormal heart rhythms and even heart attacks. While some of the findings are contradictory — some find a risk of heart failure, others don’t — and no definitive conclusions can be made about marijuana’s risk to the heart, researchers say the signs shouldn’t be ignored.

Earlier this month the American Heart Association presented preliminary findings from two studies that found marijuana use was linked to a greater risk of both a heart attack and heart failure.

The results of the first study, which looked at people with a median age of 54, found a 34% increase in the risk of heart failure in people who used marijuana daily compared with those who had never used it.

In the second study, researchers analyzed patients who were in the hospital for any reason and found that people who used marijuana and had a medical condition like Type 2 diabetes had a significantly increased risk of heart attack, cardiac arrest or abnormal heart rhythm, compared to patients who didn’t use cannabis.]

[from occupied ga]

There are 12,836 deaths per week in th UK on average. I’m not sure how statistically significant 12 of these are. I suspect that it doesn’t hit the 90% confidence level.