Posted on 03/12/2024 6:16:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A study suggests daily cannabis users have a 25 percent increased risk of a heart attack and a 42 percent increased risk of a stroke.
The new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association and funded by the National Institutes of Health showed that cannabis smoke increased the risk of heart attacks similar to tobacco smoke. 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, said that cannabis use should be considered an increased risk of heart disease alongside other substances.
“We know that toxins are released when cannabis is burned, similar to those found in tobacco smoke,” said Jeffers.
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The heart attack problem (even for hardcore fitness buffs) may be nothing more than the inclination to blow off exercise in favor of sitting on the couch with a bag of Doritos and watching TV when high.
Yet vodka soaked memebers here will carry on as if it's gospel- cuz shirveled up brains soaked in alcohol... for decades.
FReepers can be just as abjectly moronic as those they shake their canes at. "Oh look - a 'study.'"
I resemble that remark, except that I sit on my butt and surf Free Republic all day.
It decades and millions (billions?) of dollars to get Americans to stop smoking cigarettes and as soon as that happened we turn around and legalize pot. Now it’s going to take more billions and decades to get people to stop smoking weed.
Yeah but there’s something magical and mysterious in weed that goes straight to your heart.
Just ask the pilled-up alkies and ancient farts on FR, who hate and suspect ALL studies... except the weed studies.
Those are real.
My experience with the workers I knew were smoking pot was that they also smoked cigarettes and often drank WAY more than the average man. The actual impact of pot on the body may be overstated if you could just view people who only used pot. However, my other experience was the workers who smoked had other issues that made them less than ideal; divorces, family problems, legal issues, stupid decisions...the list was endless.
Your ideal worker, based on a privately funded survey our HR had, was a registered republican, a white man or woman of about middle age and middle class. Education didn’t make a difference as long as they were in a job they were qualified for. On average, they didn’t drink enough that it ever showed up as a legal or work issue. They didn’t do drugs, or if they did, they were discrete enough it never resulted in a workplace problem or an arrest. AS you deviate away from those items, the number of legal and workplace issues tended to multiply. The absolute most problematic employee was a young, black male registered Democrat. They tended to get less problematic as they got older. Black women also improved with age and “class” status. White women, regardless of economic status, were pretty good from eighteen and on. (Based on my memory and this was in the late nineties.) There was data on Asians. If I recall, there wasn’t much but it was all good.
An 18 year old with an IQ of 99 so that 51% of the rest of the population’s IQ exceeds his, smokes 3 times per week, after 20 years, suffers an UNRECOVERABLE 8 IQ point loss so that 79% of the population’s IQ exceeds his.
Stupid juice.
You dont have to smoke to consume cannabis and it works with pretty much any other method can think of. People are moving away from smoking it.
Medical grade vaporizers, edibles/pills, patches, creams, suppositories
Marijuana! The mircle drug that’s fun for “recreation” too! Go for it.
...and 98% less likely to be self supporting.
25% greater than what?
I am not advocating smoking pot—or any other substance. Inhaling flaming carbon cannot be good for anyone’s system.
But the average rate of heart attack in this country is .002, or 2/10ths of a % per year. This statement would increase that to just under 3/10ths of a %, per year, per American.
Of course, people with heart disease make up the vast majority of people having heart attacks—and people in this category can have multiple attacks when it gets bad.
So...for the average, youngish pot smoker without heart disease...this increased chance of heart attack is so slim as to be ridiculous.
Again, smoking anything is stupid and harmful. You shouldn’t do it. I think pot smokers would encounter many other issues before they have their heart attack.
Begs the questions.
Were pot smokers more or less likely to get shots (jabs)?
After decades of debate and observation regarding pot, these risks and results are just now coming to light? Or are they new excuses for the increase in these health issues?
Don’t tell Willie Nelson. Or Cheech & Chong. All those OG’s are getting up there. Wouldn’t want their lives cut short by heart attack or stroke.
But it’s a milder less harsh heat attack followed by an euphoric urge for Doritos and then a nap. Would you prefer a chest tightening drop you to your knees pain and screaming out in agony? Not me.
Maybe if it’s eaten- it can’t be good inhaling any kind of smoke daily, hourly, all day long- at some point its gotta take a toll I would think.
This is yuge! My beeber is stuned! Next you'll be saying booze is bad for humans!
What? No love for glue and paint thinner sniffers?
If smoke is the problem than just use edibles.
Pot bought from licensed dispensaries are strictly regulated and lab tested. Now if YOU bought your pot off the street, yeah it could have those things. You make your choices and take your chances. I hear Reefer Madness is on DVD. I think you'll like it if you don't already own it.
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