New Government Study- Pot is Bad for you - (subjects smoked 350 joints a week) [View All]

[Ichingcarpenter]

Marijuana may up heart attack, stroke risk

via Reuters

Heavy marijuana use can boost blood levels of a particular protein, perhaps raising a person’s risk of a heart attack or stroke, U.S. government researchers said on Tuesday. …The marijuana users in the study averaged smoking 78 to 350 marijuana cigarettes per week.(that's 50 joints a day)

The study did not look at whether the heavy marijuana users actually had heart disease.

So here we go again. Three-hundred and fifty joints per week?! Who are these people? And what’s with the caveat at the end of the story? If the purpose of the study is to assess whether there might be a link between ridiculously heavy pot use and heart disease, then why not, you know, look to see whether the subjects actually suffered from heart disease? (Likely answer: Aside from the abnormal protein level, the patients were probably otherwise healthy.)


http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/87677

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1231013620080513