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

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Post by artemisyna »

nxsynonym wrote: post #4

>> "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 bo…

1200 person study is a pretty big study. That said, the authors of the study themselves listed some pretty big caveats.

http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2017/08/study_lin...

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Post by docgonzo »

Interesting finding because I find it conflicts with my stereotype of the laid back stoner. Though I could see drug use leading to other stresses in life (speculation, I'm not that kind of doctor). However, I have a problem with their definition of "marijuana user"

> We selected participants eligible for mortality follow-up, aged 20 years and above, who answered “yes” or “no” to the question, “Have you ever used marijuana or hashish?” Participants who answered yes were classified marijuana users and those who answered no, as non-marijuana users. Duration of marijuana use was estimated by subtracting participant’s age at marijuana use initiation from the age at the 2005 screen.

from the study

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/204748731772321... it is open access

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Post by John_Cena »

So they write about the limitations of their study about how marijuana use is subject to the real use frequency, but they simply throw all other considerations out the window.

I take issue with trials like these. They barely do any reasonable trial research and try to spin:

"The persons who habitually smoke marijuana have been shown to have higher blood pressure levels when compared to the general population"

-into-

"Smoking marijuana in itself causes higher blood pressure"

No doubt pharmaceutical companies have their hands in this, if I may say, bullshit. They stand to lose money if people have a drug that helps their symptoms that they can simply grow in the back yard. Replace "Internet of Things" with "Internet of Non-Critical Thinkers" and you get a recipe in which todays society may be influenced due to their lack of understanding of scientific principles in a world ever increasing in scientific constructs.

EDIT: jetlagged english

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