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Plenty of weed users in the USA have used other drugs, live below poverty, and have other external factors. Im for legalization of marijuana so my thoughts may

Plenty of weed users in the USA have used other drugs, live below poverty, and have other external factors. Im for legalization of marijuana so my thoughts may be biased but I an concerned that this study is bad science. Marijuana isnt legal in most places, perhaps these causes of hypertension are environmental. "For Yankey's study, information on marijuana use was merged with mortality data in 2011 from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, and adjusted for confounding factors such as tobacco smoking and variables including sex, age and ethnicity." These studies need to be done in a place such as Portugal where marijuana has been legal for a long amount of time to allow for a large arching study to be performed properly.

nrjdjejejdd8 9y ago
It's not science at all. It's a suspect statistical correlation with poor controls. Aka bullshit. Anecdotal but relative to this paper equally valid, my step-dad, grandpa, and a number of their buddies all went through prostate cancer treatment and hopped on weed on the side and a decade plus later of smoking for each of them they're all within normal ranges for every thing (I check in since some of them are genetic relations and I'm nearing that age where monitoring becomes vital) Too much of this "science" fails to control for mental health. Anxiety is a common disorder in our society. Anxiety from illicit illegal drug use could be the cause here. It's a crap study, probably intended as fodder for politicians and to stoke fears in the public