Marijuana may up heart attack, stroke risk

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Doberman

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First person I thought about when I read this was Nate Dogg. I wonder how he's doing?




Marijuana may up heart attack, stroke risk Chronic pot smoking linked to hardening of the arteries, study finds
Reuters
updated 6:06 a.m. PT, Tues., May. 13, 2008

WASHINGTON - Heavy marijuana use can boost blood levels of a particular protein, perhaps raising a person's risk of a heart attack or stroke, U.S. government researchers said on Tuesday.
Dr. Jean Lud Cadet of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, said the findings point to another example of long-term harm from marijuana. But marijuana activists expressed doubt about the findings.
Cadet said a lot of previous research has focused on the effects of marijuana on the brain. His team looked elsewhere in the body, measuring blood protein levels in 18 long-term, heavy marijuana users and 24 other people who did not use the drug.
Levels of a protein called apolipoprotein C-III were found to be 30 percent higher in the marijuana users compared to the others. This protein is involved in the body's metabolism of triglycerides — a type of fat found in the blood — and higher levels cause increased levels of triglycerides, Cadet added.
High levels of triglycerides can contribute to hardening of the arteries or thickening of the artery walls, raising the risk of stroke, heart attack and heart disease.
The study did not look at whether the heavy marijuana users actually had heart disease.
"Chronic marijuana use is not only causing people to get high, it's actually causing long-term adverse effects in patients who use too much of the drug," Cadet, whose study is in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, said in a telephone interview. "Chronic marijuana abuse is not so benign."
The marijuana users in the study averaged smoking 78 to 350 marijuana cigarettes per week, based on self-reported drug history, the researchers said.
The researchers said the active ingredient in marijuana, known as THC, seems to overstimulate marijuana receptors in the liver, leading to overproduction of the protein.
Raising future risk
Cadet said higher levels of the protein in marijuana users could raise future risk for cardiac abnormalities, blood flow problems, heart attack and stroke.
People with major medical or psychiatric illness, alcohol dependency and other drug use such as cocaine or heroin were excluded from the study.
A U.S. group supporting legal sales and regulation of marijuana disputed the findings. Marijuana Policy Project spokesman Bruce Mirken said, for example, the study involved people who were extremely heavy users.
"I think the low end was 78 joints a week. That's 10 or 11 joints a day," Mirken said in a telephone interview.
"We're talking about people who are stoned all the time. We're talking about the marijuana equivalent of the guy in the alley clutching a bottle of cheap wine. If you do anything to that level of excess, it might well have some untoward effects, whether it's marijuana or wine or broccoli," Mirken added.
Cadet's team said the findings suggest long-term harm from marijuana beyond issues such as impaired learning, poor memory retention and retrieval and perceptual abnormalities.
But Mirken said: "Even if you take this finding at face value, it's not at all clear that it has any relevance to the real world because there is still no data showing higher rates of mortality among marijuana smokers. If this was a significant cause of cardiovascular disease, where are the bodies?"
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ColdBlooded

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Just the illuminati and their devilishness trying to keep people away from God's favorite leaf and enlightenment.

If more people smoked herb we’d know the truth about building 7 and would line the boarders locked arm in arm to prevent the creation of a North American Super Highway.


Don’t let the snakes fool you!
 
Doberman

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Mr. Rictus said:
Just the illuminati and their devilishness trying to keep people away from God's favorite leaf and enlightenment.

If more people smoked herb we’d know the truth about building 7 and would line the boarders locked arm in arm to prevent the creation of a North American Super Highway.


Don’t let the snakes fool you!
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Thanks for confirming you're an idiot!
 
Arson

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inhaling any smoke is bad as fuck for you, and anybody who smokes cant tell me it doesnt fuck off your memory.
 
SuiPSYedKing

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WASHINGTON + U.S. government researchers said = Read enough.

as stated any inhaling of smoke is bad for your insides, but what if your a full time vaporizer user for the past 5 years? does the marijuana still have the same effects?
 
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Arson said:
inhaling any smoke is bad as fuck for you, and anybody who smokes cant tell me it doesnt fuck off your memory.
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i found that as long as you try and keep your memory sharp it doesnt affect you at all
my memory is better than anyone i know and i used to fall under that category of high all the time 10 blunts a day
 
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DoughBoyX4 said:
i dnt know if diz bullshit but sumtimez when i smoke my heart be speeding up i dnt know what iz

or itz just me high trippin off sum good purp lol
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Effects on the Heart

"One study has indicated that an abuser's risk of heart attack more than quadruples in the first hour after smoking marijuana7. The researchers suggest that such an effect might occur from marijuana's effects on blood pressure and heart rate and reduced oxygen-carrying capacity of blood."

http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/marijuana.html

you didnt know?. but even bammer should do the same. just think more THC= faster HR.
 
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bo$$tycoon said:
Effects on the Heart

"One study has indicated that an abuser's risk of heart attack more than quadruples in the first hour after smoking marijuana7. The researchers suggest that such an effect might occur from marijuana's effects on blood pressure and heart rate and reduced oxygen-carrying capacity of blood."

http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/marijuana.html

you didnt know?. but even bammer should do the same. just think more THC= faster HR.
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Although this may or may not be correct, alot of info from anything regarding marijuana from a website with the extension of .gov, can only be taken with a grain of salt.

I like this gem:

Effects on the Lungs

"A study of 450 individuals found that people who smoke marijuana frequently but do not smoke tobacco have more health problems and miss more days of work than nonsmokers8. Many of the extra sick days among the marijuana smokers in the study were for respiratory illnesses."

Ok, but what other variables go with that? Are these non-tobacco smokers also prone to illness regardless? To they have ailments that would have them miss days even if they didnt smoke? Do they drink? Do they have personal issues?

How do we know the past of the people partaking in the experiment? We dont. All we know is that they were people who did NOT smoke tobacco products, and DID smoke weed.

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I Fucked Your Mom said:
Although this may or may not be correct, alot of info from anything regarding marijuana from a website with the extension of .gov, can only be taken with a grain of salt.

I like this gem:

Effects on the Lungs

"A study of 450 individuals found that people who smoke marijuana frequently but do not smoke tobacco have more health problems and miss more days of work than nonsmokers8. Many of the extra sick days among the marijuana smokers in the study were for respiratory illnesses."

Ok, but what other variables go with that? Are these non-tobacco smokers also prone to illness regardless? To they have ailments that would have them miss days even if they didnt smoke? Do they drink? Do they have personal issues?

How do we know the past of the people partaking in the experiment? We dont. All we know is that they were people who did NOT smoke tobacco products, and DID smoke weed.

:ermm:
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Im one of the guilty that say's fuck work today im stay home and smoke to the head, and use a sick day. i got 90 sick days built up. So i can afford it. :siccness:
 
King_Jr

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78 to 350 joints a week lol. and with that they had a 30% increase over non-smokers.

so basically if you're not a "extremely heavy smoker" that study is bullshit
 
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