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Marijuana is associated with higher risk of heart attack and stroke (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Can someone hook us up with an unpaywalled link?

This seems like an extremely difficult connection to make.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I gonna hazard a wild guess its more to do with inhaling smoke than the substance itself, but AFAIK the only thing permitted to be researched was pretty shit quality so maybe research is catching up with what people actually have access to?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Who is most at risk? Generally speaking, older adults and people with underlying conditions such as diabetes, high cholesterol or pre-existing heart issues are at the greatest risk, experts said. That’s because their cardiovascular systems tend to be more fragile, and marijuana further stresses the heart.

At the most, it seems more honest to suggest that smoking marijuana with preexisting cardiovascular issues may be uniquely harmful. But even within that narrowly defined community I reckon it would be a tall task to isolate the effects of marijuana as a smoking gun (heh) with so many other potentially contributing factors.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Sounds like some good Ole reefer madness to me.

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