Re:Marijuana use holds three-fold blood pressure death risk:...
by millzlane on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:09PM
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>picking individual celebrity examples has some serious survivorship bias on its own.
That's true my comment was partly serious and a bit facetious. And I don't think it's surprising that these are the results. We've known for decades smoking cigarettes of any kind are bad and caused hypertension. It's a major reason I quit smoking combustibles like cigarettes. It definitely has the potential to be harmful.
Re:Marijuana use holds three-fold blood pressure death risk:...
by mobilemidget on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:08PM
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and don't rule out all the people that can't publicly state they use marihuana; because of law, etc etc.
Re:Marijuana use holds three-fold blood pressure death risk:...
by neveradmitmyid on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:23PM
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Exactly. As a member of our security apparatus I can never reveal my daily use since age of 14. That was 35 years ago, and I am still the same serious athlete I always was, just a calmer one than when I can't smoke pot. From my anecdotal perspective, its the junk food and sitting around culture making people sick.
Cannabis is a hard topic for Americans to talk about, because it's been so often unfairly demonized in the past, there's a pro-cannabis camp that sometimes won't admit any downside to it, fearing "Reefer Madness" style FUD which has been very common for decades.
But is it really all that surprising that smoking could be bad for your health, irrespective of what it is? My take would be that people shouldn't be persecuted for this, but that it's straightforwardly obvious that any smoking (and doubly so an unregulated plant that would reasonably be expected to vary tremendously in quality depending on supplier) -- would be harmful.