Marijuana use holds three-fold blood pressure death risk: study

Was it the weed or the munchies? I'd say insulin related from munchies.

>> "If marijuana use is implicated in cardiovascular diseases and deaths, then it rests on the health community and policy makers to protect the public."

Like how the policy makers protect the public from Alcohol, tobacco, and over-the-counter meds?

Also a 1200 person study isn't really enough to draw any major conclusions from.

Of course ingesting anything substance of any kind frequently over a period of time is bound to be harmful to some degree. What we need is context and not one-off sensationalist studies that are used as propaganda fodder on either side of the debate.

Policy makers do put quite a lot of work into protecting us from alcohol, tobacco and over the counter meds. Also, 1200 people is a fairly huge study, plenty to get some quality statistics from.

I'm not sure why you have been so offended by this research. It looks quite convincing to me, and fairly worrying.

yea i had a hard time making sense of the paper, probably my fault. it seemed like they didn't control for obesity, and it also seemed like alcohol had a much stronger correlation. I would love to hear from someone that can properly read it though. I also find it interesting that the odds for marijuana users are 1.05 per year but, e.g. marriage is 1.17, alcohol 1.84 etc, yet the conclusion is about marijuana.

Bias: I am a non-drinking, unmarried, low-blood pressure, no cholesterol, extremely underweight stoner

https://www.omicsonline.org/pdfdownload.php?download=open-ac...

Plenty of weed users in the USA have used other drugs, live below poverty, and have other external factors.

Im for legalization of marijuana so my thoughts may be biased but I an concerned that this study is bad science. Marijuana isnt legal in most places, perhaps these causes of hypertension are environmental.

"For Yankey's study, information on marijuana use was merged with mortality data in 2011 from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, and adjusted for confounding factors such as tobacco smoking and variables including sex, age and ethnicity."

These studies need to be done in a place such as Portugal where marijuana has been legal for a long amount of time to allow for a large arching study to be performed properly.