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Marijuana users at greater risk for heart attack, stroke
UPI ^ | March 19, 2025 | Dennis Thompson

Posted on 03/20/2025 12:12:30 PM PDT by absalom01

Weed users are much more likely to suffer a heart attack, stroke or other life-threatening heart condition than people who don't indulge, a new study says.

Adults under 50 are more than six times as likely to suffer a heart attack if they use marijuana, compared to non-users, researchers reported Tuesday in the journal JACC Advances.

They also have a dramatically higher risk of stroke, heart failure and heart-related death, researchers said.

"Asking about cannabis use should be part of clinicians' workup to understand patients' overall cardiovascular risk, similar to asking about smoking cigarettes," lead researcher Dr. Ibrahim Kamel, a clinical instructor at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, said in a news release.

Weed is legal for recreational use in 24 states and for medical use in 39 states.

These results show that it is not inherently harmless, even as it is legalized across the U.S., researchers said.

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: cannabis; ganga; ganja; heartattack; jacc; marijuana; mj; reefer; stroke; tetrahydrocannabinol; thc; weed
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Giant surprise!
1 posted on 03/20/2025 12:12:30 PM PDT by absalom01
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To: absalom01

“Eat a bag of Doritos, and call me in the morning.”


2 posted on 03/20/2025 12:15:25 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: absalom01

I don’t see in the aeticle if there’s a differentiation between smoking it or the edible version.


3 posted on 03/20/2025 12:20:37 PM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: absalom01
This warning will have as much effect as the surgeon general's warning on a pack of cigarettes. (Is that still there?)

Retard dope smokers are addicts. They willingly embrace the risk for the high. Good liberTARDians.

4 posted on 03/20/2025 12:21:14 PM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist)
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5 posted on 03/20/2025 12:21:53 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: absalom01
Asking about cannabis use should be part of clinicians' workup to understand patients' overall cardiovascular risk, similar to asking about smoking cigarettes

MISLEADING. Not a "weed" user, but people these days are far more likely to consume cannabis via some other method than "smoking." Oils and edibles should not show the same health risks. And the jury is out on vaping. Could be better than smoking, but also could be worse, depending on additives used.

6 posted on 03/20/2025 12:34:35 PM PDT by montag813
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To: absalom01

None of these people are a great loss for society,
Just let them do what they do.


7 posted on 03/20/2025 12:38:04 PM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: absalom01

Is it the weed that increases the risk, or the irresistible urge to eat junk food when stoned? Just wondering.


8 posted on 03/20/2025 12:39:10 PM PDT by jerseyman
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To: absalom01

All the more reason not to smoke dope.


9 posted on 03/20/2025 12:40:23 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: absalom01

I scanned the article very quickly. For “ischemic stroke,” MJ smokers did better by a factor of 3 to 1.

However, remember to note what this means:

If 99.8% of one group are not affected by the factor at the end of the study, and 99.9% of the other aren’t, that’s a ration of 2 to 1. Which sounds a lot more dramatic.


10 posted on 03/20/2025 12:45:21 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Dozens of marijuana medical studies, every year, for the last 60 years, and it took until 2025 to discover this?

Totally bogus.

USA tort lawyers are behind the sudden avalanche of negative and harmful claims that are swirling around marijuana use.

What changed?

USA tort lawyers now have actual corporations and investors they can sue for alleged medical damages.

11 posted on 03/20/2025 12:58:25 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: gundog

An ER doc I knew told me about this guy who came in all freaked out because his penis had turned orange.

He asked the guy what he did last night and the guy said he smoked some weed, ate a bunch of cheetos and then pleasured himself.

The doctor advised him to go home and take a shower.


12 posted on 03/20/2025 12:59:25 PM PDT by algore
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To: absalom01

Smoking pot causes people to vote and think Liberal


13 posted on 03/20/2025 1:06:30 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Roos_Girl

“I don’t see in the aeticle if there’s a differentiation between smoking it or the edible version.”

Which is how you know that the study had a predetermined outcome. It is not hard to guess that smoking dope is bad for you in many ways. It is also not hard to figure out that smoking it is going to have many different effects than eating it. The fact that the article does not state any difference between the two is proof that they had an agenda that was disconnected from finding the full truth. Therefore even though some of the premises may be true the study is not to be trusted scientifically.


14 posted on 03/20/2025 1:07:53 PM PDT by Revel
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“There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.”


15 posted on 03/20/2025 1:11:49 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: jerseyman

Good question!


16 posted on 03/20/2025 1:12:20 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: absalom01

Because munchies?


17 posted on 03/20/2025 1:12:24 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan (Donald J Trump: OF the People FOR the People WITH the People)
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“Adults under 50 are more than six times as likely to suffer a heart attack if they use marijuana, compared to non-users, researchers reported Tuesday in the journal JACC Advances.” What about adults over 50? If they want to smoke it, let ‘em. Just don’t drive.


18 posted on 03/20/2025 1:13:02 PM PDT by kawhill (Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. Dude named Voltaire I think. )
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Ridiculous


19 posted on 03/20/2025 1:13:46 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: absalom01

PS -

I hope things will be changing now with RFK Jr going after them all, but these freaking studies are usually put up by someone with another product that’s losing money.

Now do margarine, do canola oil, do food dyes, do folic acid. But they never do.

Big Pharma in bed with Big Agra in bed with Big Med in bed with Big Pharma in bed with politicians. It disgusts me to no end.


20 posted on 03/20/2025 1:18:18 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan (Donald J Trump: OF the People FOR the People WITH the People)
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