http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/cannabis-causing-strokes-in-young-people-irish-medic-says-1.1557815 Complete and utter propaganda at its absolute worst. Disgusting, they simply should not be allowed to get away with these lies anymore, shame on you Irish Times newspaper, shame on you!
I've smoked weed and then had my heart rate reach high high levels before, so I don't doubt this what so ever. Stop being in denial. You're doing a drug. No drug on this planet is 100% harmless.
These kids in Ireland have no real weed, they often smoke soapbar which is a heavily adulterated form of hash and contains anything from plastic bags to paint thinners to sleeping pills to ket and about 1% cannabis. They have no quality weed either, I mean you could probably find decent weed somewhere but I bet its near enough impossible on that little island with all their medieval laws. These kids are popping legal highs left right and center, their binge drinking on a regular basis which is the norm there. Its worth adding they mix tobacco with their joints, which as we all know is not very healthy especially in a soapbar joint (I feel sick at the thought). All this could be avoided if they could get access to safe, quality controlled, good old cannabis. Poor kids, I feel for them, its probably the equivalent of the laws in Texas or Louisiana and then some. It's the lack of real marijuana that is the main problem here, try and think Australia but worse, thats what these people have to put up with when trying to get their hands on decent weed. Mary jane might not always be the best thing since sliced bread but it will ''never'' cause you to have a stroke however smoking the impurities associated with bad cannabis wont help matters but still I am very skeptical of the thought that these impurities could be the cause of this problem, it is more than likely a legal high or alcohol, actually its more than likely to be a combination of them both as thats all they really have to use for recreational fun over there. Cannabis itself would not cause you to have a stroke, I mean common, we would know if it did by now, all those studies would of shown something and if there were any truth in this it would be national news not some two bit sorry excuse for a local newspaper. Its funny how marijuana gets the blame again?!?!!! Forget about all the other variables like the other past substances these kids had used but because weed was detected and the other substances like legal highs have long gone out of their systems the press decide to say lets just blame it all on the weed and sell some mofo'ing newspapers, hurray, lets take the advice of some burned out old GP who clearly knows nothing, never trust an old GP (physician) they would blame anything and everything on weed just like the press! And the God dam Irish media are a joke, their even worse than the UK and thats saying something. I've gotta say its pretty disappointing to see a fellow blade falling for this BS.
Weed is not a perfect cure all plant. It's a drug that has mild negative effects. The article is bullshit, and weed is definitely not deadly in any way, but it is a drug. Face it
First off, look at the picture in the article- the kid is adding "soap bar" to his herb (which often mixed with tobacco throughout Europe). So what is causing the strokes? Impurities in the soap bar hash? The tobacco? Other adulterants? How many of his handful of cases also used tobacco heavily? Tobacco is well known to raise the risk of strokes! His theory has more holes than Swiss cheese! Also- it does not seem logical that compounds like THC and CBD that PREVENT damage during a stroke, would cause a stroke! “A Marijuana Bud a Day Keeps the Stroke Away" (news – 2012) http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2012/04/a_marijuana_bud_a_day_keeps_the_stroke_away.php Delta(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (Delta(9)-THC) prevents cerebral infarction via hypothalamic-independent hypothermia. (abst - 2007) http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm/record/17289082/abstract /Delta_9__tetrahydrocannabinol__Delta_9__THC__prevents_cerebral_infarction_via_hypothalamic_independent_hypothermia Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and AM 404 protect against cerebral ischaemia in gerbils through a mechanism involving cannabinoid and opioid receptors (full - 2007) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2189998/?tool=pmcentrez Medical marijuana: study shows that THC slows atherosclerosis (news - 2005) http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2005/04/medical_marijua.html Cannabidiol prevents a post-ischemic injury progressively induced by cerebral ischemia via a high-mobility group box1-inhibiting mechanism. (abst - 2008) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18634812 Cannabidiol prevents infarction via the non-CB1 cannabinoid receptor mechanism. (abst – 2004) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15640760 Cannabidiol Prevents Cerebral Infarction Via a Serotonergic 5-Hydroxytryptamine1A Receptor–Dependent Mechanism (full - 2005) http://stroke.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/36/5/1071 Granny
Any of you in Ireland, or anywhere else in the world, are most welcome to get a free PDF copy of my List so YOU can refute the lies just as I have here at GC. It isn't that hard once you have my List! You just scroll down the List and find what you need! I just hit the "Stroke" section and there was everything I needed. There are news articles on many of the studies, so you don't need a PhD to use the List! The way we counter the BS is with Pubmed studies! It is awful hard for a "prohib" to argue that cannabis causes lung cancer when you keep posting up things like - {Delta}-9 Tetrahydrocannabinol inhibits growth and metastasis of lung cancer. (abst - 2007) http://www.aacrmeetingabstracts.org/cgi/content/meeting_abstract/2007/1_Annual_Meeting/4749?maxtoshow=&hits=80&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=cannabinoid&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=1760&resourcetype=HWCIT Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows (news – 2007) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.htm Large Study Finds No Link between Marijuana and Lung Cancer (news - 2006) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=large-study-finds-no-link Kids, WE are the experts about cannabis use! (As they would say in early England, "We have proved it upon our bodies!") We KNOW the effect of cannabis just by looking at our friends! PubMed and medical journals are providing the proof that the "prohibs" are dead wrong! I have spent countless hours creating the List for YOU to use. But the List is useless unless used! I want to have a bunch of you email me today to get the List. And then I want to hear back from you saying "I just sent the List to __ friends, with instructions to pass it on to their friends!". Once the medical facts about cannabis become known, the need for legalization becomes OBVIOUS! One mind at a time, is how we win the war to legalize cannabis! Granny
Well to be fair I could see that happening but that's a very low percentage and special cases. We need to know their medical history to come to a better conclusion or if they had other intoxicants in their system.
You also cannot rule out any underlying health conditions ! Sent from my GT-I9300 using Grasscity Forum mobile app