Is weed bad for your heart?

Discussion in 'Fitness, Health & Nutrition' started by Livingalife, Jan 9, 2007.

  1. Hi, I came across this thread in a google search.

    I am 23, been using cannabis for a little over 3 years. I vape 90% of the time, 10% combust. I toke atleast once a day as well. sometimes all day long ... sometimes just once due to how busy I am.


    anyways, lately I am concerned about my health. I know my BP and cholesterol has risen above average. I have been eating junk food (not fast food) just foods high in calories, fat, sugar. usually homemade. I have gained 20lbs in the past 2 years.


    I am making a switch towards healthier living, I run 3 miles a day 5x/week. eating a lot less.

    I want to know how harmful the cannabis part of my lifestyle is to my body....will I be fine in just vaping it?

    I really dont want any health problems when I get older. that is the main reason for my concern.

    I am even considering going vegetarian. but thats still a while away.
     

  2. I don't think so. If THC killed white blood cells...cancer/hiv patients that smoke/ingest marijuana, would die at a much higher rate.

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  3. TBH, I'd be far more concerned about emphysema than heart defects. Regardless, I have a few decades to worry about that, and that's if I'm lucky enough to make it to sixty to begin with.
     
  4. ive notived the more you think about your heart the more you think is wrong with it cuz you paranoid but if you really think somethings wrong see a doctor. i remember seeing a heart specialist before and she said that weed has no effect on the heart.
     
  5. My daughter was born with 4 heart defects, in her teenage years she started smoking pot and cigarettes, she has had five pacemakers, her first received when she was 9 yrs.old, she is now 24 yrs.old, she recently just had a heart attack, caused by being abused physically by her soon to be ex husband, a blood clot formed and released, from the injuries she sustained, ALL of her doctors have told her, they would rather her smoke pot than cigarettes, which she is now doing. My daughter is being paced at 80 bpm ( a child's rate) because she passes out at an adult heart rate of 60, she also is in junctional rhythm and has missed heart beats, and still it is okay for her to smoke pot. Everybody is different and no one can tell someone else what anything will do to them or not do to them, Live your life and be happy, No one has ever had a cause of death from smoking MJ, it is physically impossible to die from smoking pot unless you smoke 7 times your body weight in a certain amount of time, (documented research).
     
     
     
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  6. From what I've gathered from pubmed and ncbi cannabis effects in the heart are predictible and shouldn't cause any problems, but could worsen pre existing conditions.

    Heart disease runs in my family but I still smoke and my heart beats like a champ!
     
  7. Cancer virus in white blood cells?

    I think you need to study more on the subject

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  8.  
    Dude, you think that weed smoke makes more blood enter the bloodstream. And nobody said anything about weed causing a gigantic, über dangerous rise in heart rate, only that it can exacerbate existing (possible undiagnosed) conditions.
     
     
     
    Fuck off with the fallacy. If I accepted your premise based solely on your appeal to personal experience, then I would simply be easily influenced. That would have nothing to do with whether or not your interpretation of reality is accurately representing reality.
     
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  9. That's an easily misdirecting way to say it. Cannabis does not cause nor progress cancer, it is the smoke. 
     
  10. Wow there's a lot of confusion and personal oppinion runing hot on this thread. I'm going to try to inject some solid science here goes.
     
     
    1. Yes weed does raise your hearth rate in a "dose-dependent" manner meaning the more you smoke or vape at once the more the hearh rate goes up, that is because the human endocannabinoid system plays a role in hearth rate regulation.
     
    2. In patients who have angina pectoris (chest pain due to ischemia of the hearth muscle, that's a restriction of blood supply) Weed causes a shortening of the period between perceived chest pains, that's is to be EXPECTED, stessing a sick hearth will put it at risk like running an old engine too fast can blow it
     
    3. In healthy users, Weed is not reported to cause any hearth problems at all, that being said, people who are healthy are often also YOUNG, in older patients, there is often some kind of hearth problem and in these cases prompting this researcher to write :
     
    "Marijuana use by older people, particularly those with some degree of coronary artery or cerebrovascular disease, poses greater risks due to the resulting increase in catecholamines, cardiac workload, and carboxyhemoglobin levels, and concurrent episodes of profound postural hypotension. Indeed, marijuana may be a much more common cause of myocardial infarction than is generally recognized. In day-to-day practice, a history of marijuana use is often not sought by many practitioners, and even when sought, the patient's response is not always truthful"." (see I<span>nternational Journal of Cardiology 118)</span>
     
    4. What we DONT know to date because of lack or research : can weed over time CAUSE the hearth to degenerate and become sick ? No one can answer this one truthfully because the research isn't done yet, we need a better understanding of the endocannabinoid system to answer.
     
    Conclusion:
     
    Most people who don't die of cancer, bullet to the head or IED explosion will eventualy have a cardiac event that kills them, the hearth stopping one way or another is just the way humans who die of old age end up, like a car that ran for a long time, the engine will give out. If you smoke weed you are taking a risk, a really mild risk compared to ANY other drug (including alcohol and tobacco) but a risk nonetheless seeing as how the body isn't made to be used for drugs, the body always does better with good food, lots of exercise, water and no drugs, that is if you're healthy.
     
    If you're sick and weed is effective in reducing symtomps or causes of your sickness then the analysis is totally changed and you have to look at weed like a medicine with a cost to benefits analysis. And weed might very well come out on top as the logical course of action.
     
    If you're perfectly healthy and don't want to take ANY risks, then don't smoke or vape weed, that's the bottom line.
     
    If you're rather healthy and need to get high from time to time (like I do for stress reduction) then weed is your best mind altering course of action in medical terms.
     
  11. I would see increased heart rate for the three hours cannabis lasts like mild workout.

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  12. Energy drinks are bad for your heart too probly more than weed.

    I think like everything, its just another contributing factor, not a root cause.

    Live a balanced life like you said

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  13. Actually, despite the present research showing an increased risk of lung cancer from tobacco smoking, there's currently no shown correlation between marijuana smoking and lung cancer. Its true that marijuana smoke contains some of the similar carcinogens as tobacco, but lung cancer has not been shown to be an increased risk.
     
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  14. Not directly, however Anxiety and dehydration are bad for your heart. There isn't a direct correlation to heart disease and CB1/2 agonism.
     

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