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  • SCIENCE

Analysis: Cannabis Smoking Not Linked To Increased Risk of Emphysema, Other Tobacco-Related Harms

  • by NORML
  • Posted on May 5, 2025May 5, 2025

“The findings highlight the distinct patterns of pulmonary and cardiovascular manifestations associated with smoking and marijuana use. In general, marijuana users do not appear to develop emphysema or pulmonary hyperinflation.”

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two cannabis buds rest against a stethoscope and blood pressure cuff
  • SCIENCE

Analysis: Lifetime Cannabis Use Not Associated With Elevated Risk of Hypertension

  • by NORML
  • Posted on November 20, 2024November 20, 2024

“Taken together, these studies suggest that regular cannabis use is not associated with elevated blood pressure or hypertension.”

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A cannabis leaf, stethoscope, and heart with a heartbeat graph line
  • Research

Study: Cumulative Use of Cannabis Not Associated with Heart Abnormalities at Middle Age

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on July 13, 2020July 13, 2020

“Our finding that occasional marijuana was not associated with ECG abnormalities adds to the growing body of evidence that this level of marijuana use and CVD events and markers of subclinical atherosclerosis are not associated.”

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CBD Wellness
  • SCIENCE

Study: CBD Administration Reduces Blood Pressure

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on June 20, 2017July 5, 2022

Oral CBD administration is associated with reduced blood pressure in healthy volunteers, according to clinical trial data published online in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

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Marijuana Heartbeat
  • SCIENCE

New Study Tells Nothing About Marijuana’s Role in Heart Disease

  • by Mitch Earleywine
  • Posted on April 24, 2014June 21, 2022

A new study on marijuana appeared in Journal of the American Heart Association. These are…

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Marijuana and the Brain
  • SCIENCE

Studies: Cannabinoids Protect the Brain and Heart From Injury

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on June 6, 2013June 20, 2022

Recent preclinical studies published over the past weeks provide further evidence that cannabinoids are both neuroprotective and cardioprotective.

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Marijuana and Health
  • Activism

Marijuana may up heart attack, stroke risk-if you smoke 2-9 Oz. a week

  • by NORML
  • Posted on May 13, 2008June 10, 2020

Yet still, note that the study doesn’t check to see if the heavy marijuana users actually do have heart disease. The research done on the health effects of even heavy marijuana smokers show little if any difference between cannabis users and their non-using counterparts.

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