Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)

Post by rascul » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 5:33 AM UTC

graeme wrote: post #176

embedding-shape wrote: post #5

> 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…

The physical act of smoking itself is harmful. Not just tobacco specifically, burning and inhaling anything.

Post by teekert » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 7:19 AM UTC

uwagar wrote: post #238

teekert wrote: post #105

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That is an opinion. I for one prefer talking to a happy, healthy mind, healthy body-type over someone with a life riddled with substance experiments. In fact, it was why I hardly talked to some of my family for a long time. Every weekend was the same, they were always angry and in the end they nearly killed themselves. I'm happy they got out of it and we have a much better relation now.

this is your opinion too.

Post by tearwear » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 7:58 AM UTC

mil22 wrote: post #19

Dan_- wrote: post #15

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Exactly. Being unable to account for this covariate (tobacco use) pretty much invalidates this analysis. The odds ratio for tobacco use is basically the same (3x). Also, title needs a 2025.

This article refers to two studies. The retrospective study of 4.6 million people did account for tobacco use. > The findings are from a retrospective study of over 4.6 million people published in JACC Advances and a meta-analysis of 12 previously published studies being presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session (ACC.25). > Kamel and his team conducted the retrospective study using d…

Post by ShadowOfThePit » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 9:29 AM UTC

iLemming wrote: post #219

detourdog wrote: post #44

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Not to mention cocaine.

Pfff. Try food. People naively say "weed is a gateway to other drugs", meaning cocaine. In practice, the biggest drug it opens the highway to is food. A stoner would smoke half-a-joint and then easily eat a pound of processed meat, then send a whole bag of chips down the hatch, washing it down with two or three pints of beer, and twenty minutes later will be eating ice cream directly from the bucket. Food is the wors…

Post by padjo » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 12:45 PM UTC

beezle wrote: post #190

laybak wrote: post #130

quite a few people I know consume edibles as the main form of cannabis. but it seems underrepresented in all the studies I've seen so far. as several others have pointed out, you would think the act of smoking would itself have nontrivial effects on health

One can also use vapes. I avoid the cartridge types as I don't want to guess what was used to process them. Instead I use a simple flower vape which on the face of it should be less bad than say smoking from a joint or bong. Gummies and other edibles though require processing in the liver before they become active in the body (they are converted to a slightly different form of THC) so you would need to consider wheth…