There is lack of consensus on marijuana and its health effects. There is no question that THC helps chemotherapy associated nausea.
However as this article suggest marijuana will increase risk of heart attacks in susceptible patients.
Marijuana use has been associated with increased risk of stroke, though causality remains to be proven.
Marijuana may contribute to stress cardiomyopathy.
Marijuana users were more likely than non-users to have a history of depression (32.9 percent vs. 14.5 percent), psychosis (11.9 percent vs. 3.8 percent), anxiety disorder (28.4 percent vs. 16.2 percent), alcoholism (13.3 percent vs. 2.8 percent), tobacco use (73.3 percent vs. 28.6 percent) and multiple substance abuse (11.4 percent vs. 0.3 percent).
Marijuana stimulates appetite and may lead to obesity and its downstream consequences.
Here are 3 case reports of AFIB triggered by marijuana use: 1, 2, 3.
Are we going down the same road when we drank the KoolAid from the alcohol industry “alcohol is good for the heart”….?