Medical Mariijuana

THC with Heart Issues

by Buzbuz9 - 2024-01-11 22:26:46

THC can be helpful for some people to relax. I'm from CO and it has helped me in the past but I would definitely talk to your doctor before doing it. There are a lot of interactions it can have with certain heart meds that you definitely want to avoid. It can also lead to other heart related issues. 

Here is an article from the cdc on it: https://www.cdc.gov/marijuana/health-effects/heart-health.html#:~:text=Marijuana%20can%20make%20the%20heart,pressure%20higher%20immediately%20after%20use.&text=It%20could%20also%20lead%20to,disease%2C%20and%20other%20vascular%20diseases.

Also wondering about it

by Good Dog - 2024-01-12 07:25:27

There has been a lot of Buzz lately about the use and benefits to seniors using marijuana. Recently watched a TV show I think it was "60 minutes", but not certain. They featured a bunch of retired seniors that claimed it improved the quality of their lives dramatically. I can certainly appreciate the concerns with smoking it or smoking anything else for that matter, but other forms not so much. I also wonder how my Doc would feel about it. Its wide-spread use is rather new which makes it unlikely the medical community would weigh-in positively. I recognize that it certainly is not a health serum, but if it helps arthritis pain and other issues including mental issues seniors deal with? That is what the TV show depicted. Those seniors raved about the benefits and how much more quality of life they felt that it gave them. ???

Educate and don't dismiss.

by Pacer2019 - 2024-01-13 00:17:04

The gummies do a great job with anxiety I am told ... safer than some of the chemical drugs they throw at people . 
 

Learn what strains do what ... Indica , Sativa , and hybrids . 

Are cannabis edibles safe? Can they affect the heart?

by Selwyn - 2024-01-13 15:56:42

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/cannabis-edibles-health-risks#Health-risks-of-cannabis-overconsumption

Like climbing Everest, people have their own individual experiences.Survival,  does not make it a safe practice. 

I would think very carefully before risking eveything.  I have seen lots of bad physical and mental effects of cannabis. eg.regular cannabis use could cause structural changes to the heart which is a precursor to heart failure. This 2019 study  looked at heart MRI scans from 3,407 people in the UK Biobank study with an average age of 62, who did not have cardiovascular disease.

Risk vs reward

by Pacer2019 - 2024-01-13 16:04:03

My thing with anxiety is we should another same study with some of these psychoactive drugs being handed  out - plenty of studies to support the negative side of many prescription drugs used to treat 

A survey ?

by Pacer2019 - 2024-01-14 16:01:10

When liking at numbers, surveys and data must always ask questions around its validity :

here I would ask ;

which strains of marijuana were evaluated ? There are two categories and each is very different - Sativa and Indica - a third would be a hybrid .

I would ask if method of consumption is considered ? Smoking ? Vaping ? Eating ?

a lot of research is around smoking .