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.'"
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.
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.
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!
If smoke is the problem than just use edibles.
Don’t smoke it. Take gummies.
Best thing I ever took for neuropathy pain and migraines (THC CBD blend). And I have personally seen the benefits of treating epilepsy in one of my friend’s son (CBD)
(I have a dog in the fight as I use to manufacture extraction equipment)