This time magazine article says it increases the chances of a heart attack by 4 times and that it was implicated in the amputations of 4 people with circulation disorders Questions About Marijuana: Is Pot Good For You? - TIME do you believe this? eh dont got me worried though haha, i jog and shit i'm sure i have a great circulatory system
yes i was gonna add, time magazine i pretty much trust. they had a great issue on medical marijuana. came out like a year ago now that article was surprisingly neutral and logical about it
This is coming from the same magazine that did this: Lol...THC is a potent vasodilator, it widens blood vessels allowing more blood to reach the heart and organs. That's why it's prescribed for people with high blood pressure.
whenever i see an article about weed, that says pot in the title of it, most of time its something against weed, or something derogatory, also that article was posted in 2002, the dude might have changed his mind about it now
[quote name='"Exodus2011"']This time magazine article says it increases the chances of a heart attack by 4 times and that it was implicated in the amputations of 4 people with circulation disorders Questions About Marijuana: Is Pot Good For You? - TIME do you believe this? eh dont got me worried though haha, i jog and shit i'm sure i have a great circulatory system [/quote] They mean it can increase your heart rate. By that logic you best not jog either, you're WAY more likely to have a heart attack while jogging.
I think its the smoking aspect that raises the heart attack risk temporarily. Processing smoke has to be quite straining on your lungs/heart/circulatory system. It probably doesn't increase the risk of a stroke/heart attack anymore then smoking tobacco though. And if you ingested it some other way then smoking, then I think the risk would be practically non-existent. With that said I do believe smoking it temporarily increases the chance of a heart attack/stroke.
Even if the article and statistics were somehow true, the best "they" can come up with against cannabis use is 4 amputations over thousands of years of documented use? Doing some quick and dirty math, the ratio there is basically 1:MF*. One would HAVE to assume that there were other underlying factors given those staggering numbers. And we should all learn to be careful using the word "harmless". As Ford Prefect put it, I prefer "mostly harmless", because there's hardly a damn thing left in this tainted world of ours that is truly harmless, including the air you're breathing right now. *Metric Fuckton
i don't know about those particular claims, but weed fucks up my lungs and throat. weed isnt good for you. but neither are hostess cakes, and i eat those by the box. after some weed of corse.
[quote name='"angstrom"']i don't know about those particular claims, but weed fucks up my lungs and throat. weed isnt good for you. but neither are hostess cakes, and i eat those by the box. after some weed of corse.[/quote] Read some actual scientific studies before you claim stuff...the benefits to cannabis go on and on and on. The negative side effects are....actually I can't think of a single one. I've yet to hear even one. Weed doesn't fuck up lungs and throat. It's actually really good for your lungs. Smoking on the other hand, can irritate throat and lungs. But there's many different ways to smoke which don't irritate, and there's also vaporizing and edibles. I have the healthiest lungs of anyone I know though, and I'm a daily smoker.
eh gonna change the title of the thread, i never meant to say weed is harmless. i just did it for the attention and inevitable replies xD
you are seriously gonna tell me that smoking weed doesnt fuck up my lungs and throat? i've read all the same 'scientific' stuff as you probably, and being stoned helps out with some good stuff, but nothing changes the fact that smoke is bad for ur lungs. and so is holding ur breath all the time (holding in a hit). smoke also limits the oxygen to ur brain, which is bad for ur brain in the longrun.
*Read some scientific studies they said *Cannabis, even when smoked is really good for the lungs they said. *Don't pull outrageous information out of your ass they said.