420 Use and Health

[Crow]

Thats why I am so hoping one of the states with it on the ballot this year actually passes it. I want to see what happens in the first state to make it recreationally legal. Go Washington!!!!

Thanks for the support, bud!

[Dirty Hippy]

Major +1 Crow. Keep Spreading The Word!

[Crow]

Will do!

Here's a supplemental video about the oil:

[desirexe]

If I wasn't out of town, I so would have gone to this fest and maybe find a new friend or two...next year...

[Crow]

If I wasn't out of town, I so would have gone to this fest and maybe find a new friend or two...next year...

There's always next year

[Crow]

Marijuana joint falls out of assistant city attorney's pocket -- in court

A New Orleans attorney was cited for marijuana possession this week after a joint tumbled out of his pocket in front of police, according to media reports.

Police say Jason Cantrell, who has a private practice but also serves as a part-time assistant city attorney, was in the magistrate section of criminal court chatting with police officers when a marijuana joint fell out of his pocket and onto the floor, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported.

Cantrell, 43, was a first-time offender and was cited, issued a summons to appear in court for simple possession of marijuana and let go, according to police spokesman Garry Flot.

Continued...

[Roo]

In the words of the great Peter Tosh: Judges smoke it, even the Lawyers too.

[Skell18]

Tit, why take it with you? Noob mistake!

[Crow]

In the words of the great Peter Tosh: Judges smoke it, even the Lawyers too.

A wise man once said...

[Joe234]

Smoking marijuana linked with higher risk of stroke in young adults, study finds

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Looks pretty shoddy

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/0...-young-adults/



Smoking marijuana linked with higher risk of stroke in young adults, study finds

By Loren Grush
Published February 06, 2013
| FoxNews.com



Many who support the legalization of marijuana often tout the drug’s benign side effects, asserting that long-term marijuana use has no lasting impact on an individual’s health.


However, many studies have surfaced that shed doubt on this claim. Recent research from Duke University in Durham, N.C., found teenagers who smoked marijuana habitually during their adolescence showed a decrease in their general intellectual ability as they progressed into adulthood.


But now, there is an even more chilling possible side effect of cannabis use – an increased risk of stroke.


According to a new study from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, marijuana may double the risk of ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) in young adults – even those who had no risk factors that often contribute to an attack.


The study’s lead author, Dr. P. Alan Barber, a professor of clinical neurology at the University of Auckland, said he was interested in studying the link between stroke and marijuana after a curious incident of stroke occurred in one of his younger patients.


“I look after people with strokes,” Barber told FoxNews.com, “and we had a patient come in with stroke; they were young, but they didn’t have high blood pressure or high cholesterol, and they were reasonably fit and well. They were clean from a risk factor point of view, but they had a stroke while smoking marijuana. So we looked at the literature and saw sporadic stroke reports among marijuana users.”


Conducting the first case-controlled study of its kind, Barber and his colleagues studied 160 ischemic stroke/TIA patients between the ages of 18 to 55 (an average age of 45), who had their urine samples screened when they entered the hospital. As a comparison, the researchers examined urine samples of 160 control subjects who had been admitted to the hospital for other medical reasons.


Of the 160 stroke patients, 16 percent tested positive for marijuana use within the past couple of days, compared to only 8.1 percent of the control patients. According to Barber, the stroke patients were very well matched to the controls, with no differences in age, mechanisms for stroke or other vascular risk factors.


While the study provides the strongest evidence ever of the link between cannabis use and stroke, the research does come with a catch. Of the 16 percent of stroke patients who were marijuana users, almost all of them smoked tobacco regularly.


“We haven’t been able to tease apart the relationship between cannabis and stroke independent of smoking, because all the cannabis smokers but one who had stroke had smoked cigarettes,” Barber said. “So we can say cannabis smoking including tobacco smoking is associated with a higher risk of ischemic stroke.”


Also, Barber noted the urine samples for the control subjects were obtained without the patients’ consent, so the researchers only knew their age, sex and ethnicity. While he said further research is needed in this area, it’s tricky to get the most accurate results, since marijuana is an illegal substance, and there’s a possibility for a strong risk of bias when studying this connection. Even though their research comes with some caveats, Barber is fairly certain the relationship between marijuana use and stroke is a causal one.


“We know people had strokes while using cannabis, meaning there’s a strong temporal association – so it suggested a cause,” Barber said. “We know that cannabis can lead to problems with the heart, such as heart palpitations and atrial fibrillation,” – which can significantly increase a person’s risk of stroke. “(It also) can lead to restriction of arteries in the brain… and that reduced blood flow, that’s what happens with stroke.”
This news comes at a time when there is a big push to legalize marijuana for medicinal, and even recreational, purposes. More and more states are considering making the drug legal, following in the footsteps of Washington and Colorado – which recently legalized the possession, transportation and sale of marijuana.


Currently, stroke is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, killing close to 130,000 Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Typically those who experience stroke are over the age of 65, which is why the University of Auckland study is so alarming.


In light of this research, Barber said people need to take a step back and be a bit more skeptical when it comes to smoking cannabis.
“There’s a perception by the public that cannabis is relatively benign and a natural high,” Barber said, “…but this study suggests it may not be benign as you think.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/0...#ixzz2KApFeOoH

[Joe234]

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I wanted to show that one drug gets the hype while another is forgotten.

Stroke Risk Doubles After Drinking


Happy hour may not be so happy afterward, as researchers have found that stroke risk is more than twice as high the hour immediately after consuming alcohol, even after as little as one drink.

More here....... http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellnes...ry?id=11170865

[Bigblue1]

I heard that you are four times as likely to have a stroke when you post the second time in your thread that apparently no one cares about......

[Crow]

I heard that you are four times as likely to have a stroke when you post the second time in your thread that apparently no one cares about......

That's a little harsh, don't you think?

[Bigblue1]

No I don't think so. What is twice as high? That was kinda my point. He always wants to make some point and if no one responds he bumps it himself. Just kinda lame if you ask me......

[sgreger1]

I dunno, I have read studies that show that, despite vasoconstricting the blood cells in the brain to a certain degree, having cannabis present in your body mitigates the damages from strokes because it also softens up the lining of the blood vessels, so whena stroke occurs and oxygen is cut off, there is a larger window to save someone who has been smoking marijuana because the softening of the arteries somehow lets more oxygen thorugh or something. The takeaway was that they could go longer without medical attention during a stroke, where seconds count.

And even in this study, they are saying like 8% increase really, which is exponentially lower than alcohol when it come to causing strokes. On this basis, once again marijuana is inherently safer than currently legal recreational substances like alcohol.

And they all (but one) smoke cigs regularly too which i'm sure doens't help.


Edit: Also I had researched this is great detail at one point because I have anxiety and always think i'm having a TSA (and I use MMJ), but what I found was that there were only 3 instances of a TSA happening in a young adult who had consumed MJ, and they couldn't link it directly to the MJ because they all had a bunch of other shit in them at the time. I am surprised they found 160 people, but even then, 160 people is a pretty small sample size. I have yet to see any real evidence of marijuana killing people, via stroke or otherwise.