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Learn more about the risks marijuana use poses to your health. | 01/29/2017 | Brain, heart, lungs, mental health, poisoning, Pregnancy, driving, CDC, stroke, Side-Effects |
Here are just a few of the health effects you may want to know:
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Marijuana use may be linked to temporarily weakened heart muscle | 11/14/2016 | heart, Studies, Research, American Heart Association |
"This development of stress cardiomyopathy in younger patients who used marijuana suggests a possible link that needs to be further investigated," said Sahil Agrawal, M.D., co-author of the paper and also a chief cardiology fellow at St. Luke's. Marijuana users were more likely than non-users to have a history of depression (32.9 percent vs. 14.5 percent), psychosis (11.9 percent vs. 3.8 percent), anxiety disorder (28.4 percent vs. 16.2 percent), alcoholism (13.3 percent vs. 2.8 percent), tobacco use (73.3 percent vs. 28.6 percent) and multiple substance abuse (11.4 percent vs. 0.3 percent). Because some of these can increase the risk of stress cardiomyopathy, the researchers adjusted for known risk factors to investigate the association between marijuana use and stress cardiomyopathy. |
Six Ways Science Says Marijuana May Hurt Your Health | 06/27/2015 | Danger, science, car crashes 2, Brain, addiction, heart, car crashes | |
Medical Marijuana: The State of the Science | 02/06/2015 | Studies, Research, medscape, mental health, Side-Effects, heart, lungs, body, Brain, youth, cannabis, Resource Paper |
Medical cannabinoids are here to stay, but intellectual honesty is imperative if we are moving toward exploiting their potential benefits. Owing to rising THC concentrations of products, "medical" marijuana is rarely good medicine. This review has identified the dangers associated with wholeplant marijuana, whether used for recreational or for supposedly medical purposes. |
11 Odd Facts About Marijuana | 10/10/2014 | heart, animals, hemp |
Previous research has found that marijuana can increase heart rate and blood pressure, which could tip a vulnerable individual over into heart attack territory |
Marijuana Linked to the Death of Two Young Men in Germany | 08/06/2014 | Death, heart | |
Six Ways Science Says Marijuana May Hurt Your Health | 06/29/2014 | addiction, heart, car crashes 2, Impairment, Death, Brain | |
Potential for heart attack, stroke risk seen with marijuana use | 04/23/2014 | heart, Death, Studies, risks | |
The Truth About Marijuana: Health Risks Trivialized (Op-Ed) | 04/23/2014 | heart, OpEd |
Although 95 percent of the complications due to drug use are not captured in this data, the link to cardiovascular disease was clear: The death rate due to cardiovascular disease from marijuana use was as high as 25.6 percent. |
The Truth About Marijuana: Health Risks Trivialized (Op-Ed) | 04/23/2014 | heart, OpEd |
Although 95 percent of the complications due to drug use are not captured in this data, the link to cardiovascular disease was clear: The death rate due to cardiovascular disease from marijuana use was as high as 25.6 percent. |