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).
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.
Do they really care
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 3/11/2024, 5:09:27 PM 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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Wonder what happens when a pot smoker gets his/her covid vaccine shots?
I think bad unhealthy behavior should be awarded.....
As far as health is concerned, cannabis is a lot more unhealthy than tobacco.
That has been known for a very long time.
We need a war on marihuana on the line of war on tobacco.
I think that the real culprit is all of those Twinkies.
And what % increase in having a psychotic episode? Isn’t it funny how much homelessness has increased since the legalization of marijuana?
A nation on weed is a collapsed nation. Utter idiocy.
Dave’s not here, man.