Weed used to be a thing where you’re lucky to get a hit passed to you - now you can have as many joints/edibles as you want and people are drugging themselves into psychosis, panic attacks and anxiety disorders.
Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
The cannabis to cocaine pipeline sadly is real, whether we want to or not. As long as the same people we buy our weed from also have a chance of being the people that have cocaine for you to buy, all that’s left to figure out is the money and the willingness to buy some. (Sadly speaking from experience)
Legal cannabis sends its greetings, if you're lucky enough to live in a country where you can acquire it without having make any shady acquaintances.
Especially if medical prescriptions for it aren't necessary.
Confounding migraines for weed prescriptions and very real stroke risk and a desire for low THC marijuana isn't going to be a happy show I want to go through watching that happen to friends.
It makes a mockery of real medical issues.
Doctors and health care should be involved in drug use and advising patients, maybe even clean supplies or other things.
But we got the ACA of public health options with medical marijuana. And I want to remember Obama and others for inspiring us, not hacks.
A lot of people won't be believed in time.
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#193I wonder about all the confounding effects. In my country (famous for cannabis to be easy to come by (for decades already), and I saw many smoke from age 16 up as I grew up in 90's, 00's). I have always felt that the heavy cannabis smokers had something to compensate; stress, unrest, impending depression, friction with parents. It was never the healthy sporty types with fulfilling relationships, good grades or a nice…
this is true of most risk factors though, diet, excercise, relationships, work , all suffer under stress. it's the job of medical reseach to sift this stuff as best they can.
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#194I wonder about all the confounding effects. In my country (famous for cannabis to be easy to come by (for decades already), and I saw many smoke from age 16 up as I grew up in 90's, 00's). I have always felt that the heavy cannabis smokers had something to compensate; stress, unrest, impending depression, friction with parents. It was never the healthy sporty types with fulfilling relationships, good grades or a nice…
I have largely stopped smoking because when I smoke regularly I end up weighing 20-30lbs more from eating everything. Going on an actual calorie restricted diet while consuming cannabis is basically impossible for me. Then instead of walking 60 minutes I end up sitting and listening to music. There is really not anything for me that correlates with healthy behavior when I smoke.
Yeah this was a big one for me, weed has lots of little knock on impact into other CV risk factors
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#195Like with everything it’s about moderation; But if we are sold cannabis as a “healthy” alternative to cigarettes obviously something will go wrong. At the end of the day, just like with any other drug, it’s about frequency (times / week), time of use (environmental factor), genetic compatibility (strain genetic and your genetics), and most importantly: how do you feel with your self after. Let’s keep it real most stoners smoke till they can’t feel a thing, and their fingers tremble. No shame, I used to do that, yes, for health reasons, I am an ex-medical user. Over time I understood it’s not for me, and I try to live life with sobriety, while I find my highs and my escapes with other stuff. Books, TV shows, wasting time outside at coffee shops. The biggest kicker no body wants to take seriously is corn content if we are keeping it honest.
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#196> researchers were unable to account for several potential confounding factors including the duration and amount of cannabis use or the use of tobacco or other drugs. Personally I'd wager a bet it's the tobacco and/or smoking that is the harmful part, but it kind of dumbfounds me they failed to account for "details" like "duration and amount of cannabis use", that feels like a very vital thing to control for. Nothing…
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#197I love these articles. When the hundred heavy pot users all come at once with their impartial critiques and studious analyses.
What I like more is some of the people that will agree with me would crucify if the topic was about ADHD meds.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have been a heavy cannabis user (like that guy in the Bob Marley song who "smokes two joints in the morning, smokes two joints at night") on and off from my mid 20's onward. I've also been a heavy exerciser and have the constellation of symptoms known as "athlete's heart" including an A-Fib diagnosis that I don't really believe [1] as well as concerning findings that may or not really be concerning because doctors…
That song was made popular by Sublime. Not written and never performed by Bob Marley. Great track though!
You're right, Sublime covered
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_Two_Joints
by the Toyes!
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#199I wonder about all the confounding effects. In my country (famous for cannabis to be easy to come by (for decades already), and I saw many smoke from age 16 up as I grew up in 90's, 00's). I have always felt that the heavy cannabis smokers had something to compensate; stress, unrest, impending depression, friction with parents. It was never the healthy sporty types with fulfilling relationships, good grades or a nice…
I have largely stopped smoking because when I smoke regularly I end up weighing 20-30lbs more from eating everything. Going on an actual calorie restricted diet while consuming cannabis is basically impossible for me. Then instead of walking 60 minutes I end up sitting and listening to music. There is really not anything for me that correlates with healthy behavior when I smoke.
That's good you have the self-awareness. You're kind of on the edge of NLP territory. Is it the act of smoking or is that simply your internal slang for cannabis use? Can you walk and listen to music at the same time? (Fine, maybe you need to walk someplace where you won't get hit by a car or someone on an electric scoot.)
As the other comment says: set and setting. And it works both ways, you can take some memento with you, and when you're being quiet and introspective and you're feeling good fondle some fob: a keychain, a rosary, buddhist prayer beads, some macrame you're working on, it doesn't matter. Point is later when you're in a different situation, you can replay that ritualistic behavior and it will probably reach in and remind your body, which will then remind you mind. This is human nature: it's known that e.g. humans remember / forget things when passing through doorways, and some forms of acting use cues like this especially for emotional resonance.
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#200Quit recently after daily use for about 30 years. Took 3 years, and several regiments of hyperbaric therapy, I also took the time to cut out all other stimulants or depressents, alcohol, coffee etc. Now I stimulate the Vegas nerve in the morning and at night with breathing regiments Its hard to quit as there is a lot it does for you neurologically like caffeine does but I finally realized it was giving me neuroinflam…
cannabis is harder to quit because it doesn't have that "it's killing you" aspect to it - but staying in bed and playing video games can kill in a different way! Still better than drinking heavily though
I had no idea how to deal with the anxiety I had in the 90s and gollee it had to have been better than the drugs they've have tried to put me on to deal with that
I blame the Ritalin to adderall to wellbutrin train of drugs for most of that but certainly cannabis served a purpose for me and likely kept me "healthier" in ways but its also not a good long term play
I feel "high" now just being sober it's pretty nice