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One obvious thing I'd be curious about is why those people are heavy users in the first place. E.g., if people with certain conditions are already using more ca
by gdubs 4y ago
One obvious thing I'd be curious about is why those people are heavy users in the first place. E.g., if people with certain conditions are already using more cannabis than the rest of the population to deal with pain management, etc, then a correlation like this wouldn't be that surprising.
Would like to see how the study controls for that, but didn't actually see a direct link.
- 3minus1 4y ago> "I think the evidence is pretty good that there is an increased risk," Reznik said, but the association does not prove a cause-and-effect relationship. The article basically acknowledges this. They have a ton of data - over a million surgeries and 22K marijuana users. However, there's no proof of cause-and-effect because they have no way of knowing if it's correlation of causation. All they can say for sure is that these patients are at increased risk.