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Daily Weed Smokers 25% More Likely to Have Heart Attack, 42% Higher Stroke Risk: AHA
New York Post ^ | March 11, 2024 | Adriana Diaz

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: donatefreerepublic; marijuana; pot; potheads; reefermadness; smellslikefreedom
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To: nickcarraway

Oh boy! Let the FR dope smokers go crazy with this one!
Weed is a wonder drug of vast proportions! If only “big pharma” would let the word get out! But they are suppressing it to make people buy their drugs!
Yep. You betcha!


41 posted on 03/11/2024 9:15:15 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: Lazamataz

Get yourself an egg and beat it.


42 posted on 03/11/2024 9:16:07 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Fuzz
Get yourself an egg and beat it.

That's what SHE said.


43 posted on 03/11/2024 9:18:43 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Laz 2005: "First, we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.")
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To: vpintheak

Here….hit this a couple times…..

There ya go.

Relax.


44 posted on 03/11/2024 9:19:44 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Lazamataz

Have a banana.
Have a whole bunch.
It doesn’t matter what you had for lunch.

Just eat it.

She say that?


45 posted on 03/11/2024 9:21:24 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Fuzz

She did!

She’s AWESOME!


46 posted on 03/11/2024 9:24:05 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Laz 2005: "First, we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.")
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To: Lazamataz

Thought so.

Sounds like you met my ex.

I suggest you run, run like so far away. Run night and day.

I hope you get away.


47 posted on 03/11/2024 9:29:54 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: nickcarraway

But, but, the liberals told me pot was harmless!


48 posted on 03/11/2024 10:28:05 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"-Voltaire)
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To: FrdmLvr

I was recently diagnosed with Afib. I’m on meds for it. Asked the cardiologist about smoking marijuana. I was told not it is not a concern.

I trust my doctor over a study funded by the government on behalf of pharmaceutical companies.


49 posted on 03/12/2024 7:25:30 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Fuzz

I’m plenty relaxed. Just find it humorous that dope smokers absolutely won’t admit anything bad about it. Even alcoholics know it isn’t good but they do it anyway.


50 posted on 03/12/2024 10:35:40 AM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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