Overuse of marijuana linked to surgery complications and death, study says

[Social Media]

Clinical overuse of marijuana is linked to a variety of complications after major elective surgery, including blood clots, stroke, breathing difficulties, kidney issues and even death, a new study found.

 

Using marijuana may affect your ability to think and plan, study says

“Our findings complement previous studies that have identified significant associations between cannabis use disorders and perioperative complications,” the study’s authors wrote in the report. The research team is from the department of anesthesiology, critical care and pain medicine at McGovern Medical School, part of the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston.

Why would this be? Smoking marijuana impacts blood flow in the brain and body, decreases respiration and body temperature, contributes to airway blockages, raises blood pressure, increases heart rate, impacts heart rhythm, and more — all of which can make recovery from surgery more difficult, according to a November 2019 review of literature. Use of marijuana also increases post-op pain, according to an October 2020 study.

 

 

The new study’s finding is significant, the authors said, considering prior analyses have found nearly 3 of every 10 marijuana users develop a dependence on weed called cannabis use disorder.

 

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[scottiejohn]

  On 7/5/2023 at 11:49 PM, Social Media said:

Using marijuana may affect your ability to think and plan, study says

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The understatement of the year which all the crack heads on here will now try to "prove" is wrong!

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  On 7/6/2023 at 12:49 AM, scottiejohn said:

The understatement of the year which all the crack heads on here will now try to "prove" is wrong!

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Are you equating marijuana users to crack heads? Or are you claiming that crack heads have some special interest in defending the use of marijuana? If someone criticizes this article is that proof that they are crack heads? You've certainly raised some fascinating issues with your well thought out reasoning. 

[glegolo18]

  On 7/6/2023 at 12:54 AM, placeholder said:

Are you equating marijuana users to crack heads? Or are you claiming that crack heads have some special interest in defending the use of marijuana? If someone criticizes this article is that proof that they are crack heads? You've certainly raised some fascinating issues with your well thought out reasoning. 

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Well, YOU have certainly NOT raised anything with your post I might say....

No opinion, no solution at all......

[ignore it]

But it should be noted, not as bad as a daily dose of aspirin.

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  On 7/6/2023 at 7:02 AM, glegolo18 said:

Well, YOU have certainly NOT raised anything with your post I might say....

No opinion, no solution at all......

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Except to point out how ridiculous your post was.

[2baht]

Damn ganja!

[2baht]

  On 7/6/2023 at 12:49 AM, scottiejohn said:

The understatement of the year which all the crack heads on here will now try to "prove" is wrong!

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Absolutely little or no idea!

[Tropicalevo]

 

Sounds familiar?

[bradiston]

Substitute marijuana in the headline with any drug, alcohol, smack, aspirin, fentanyl, lysergic acid, largactyl, nembutal, mandies, uppers and downers. What do you get? Addiction, paralysis and death. ????????????. Trust me. I'm a doctor.

[brianthainess]

  On 7/6/2023 at 12:49 AM, scottiejohn said:

The understatement of the year which all the crack heads on here will now try to "prove" is wrong!

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Is that you steven100 ? 

[curlylekan]

I live in the Netherlands. I am a daily smoker. The last time I went for an operation, they asked me to stop smoking only 1 day before. 

 

I would bet that a lot of the problems they have is not from the marijuana, but from the pesticides and herbicides used, and other unnatural things.

 

Do people in Thailand know the side effects of any of the drugs they use from the pharmacy or the pollution cause from burning so much coal and other stuff. This is where most effort should be placed to help public health.

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  On 7/6/2023 at 11:03 AM, bradiston said:

Substitute marijuana in the headline with any drug, alcohol, smack, aspirin, fentanyl, lysergic acid, largactyl, nembutal, mandies, uppers and downers. What do you get? Addiction, paralysis and death. ????????????. Trust me. I'm a doctor.

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Aspirin? You're a doctor of what exactly?

[bradiston]

  On 7/6/2023 at 11:19 AM, placeholder said:

Aspirin? You're a doctor of what exactly?

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https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/aspirin-oral-route/side-effects/drg-20152665?p=1

 

I think it warrants a mention.

[chalawaan]

Overuse of sugar and processed foods links to surgery complications and death.

 

Let's take bets on which kills more humans; sugar abuse, or weed abuse.

 

What's their point here other than another pointless pearl-clutching demonization of weed?

[chalawaan]

  On 7/6/2023 at 12:49 AM, scottiejohn said:

The understatement of the year which all the crack heads on here will now try to "prove" is wrong!

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A troll post which somehow got past.

[bendejo]

Using marijuana may affect your ability to think and plan, study says

 

Well yeah, but, umm, uh, I forgot what I was planning to say . . .

 

[Credo]

The article seems to center more on marijuana use among youth, and that is without a doubt most likely true.  As for the rest of the article, it's sort of like saying drinking makes you drunk.   

 

Pretty much anything that we use has some side effects.  

 

[Skipalongcassidy]

I can't remember why I clicked on this thread... oh yeah... pepperoni and extra cheese

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  On 7/6/2023 at 4:46 PM, bradiston said:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/aspirin-oral-route/side-effects/drg-20152665?p=1

 

I think it warrants a mention.

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I can't find the part where it says aspirin is addictive.

[bradiston]

  On 7/6/2023 at 11:35 PM, placeholder said:

I can't find the part where it says aspirin is addictive.

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Ah, it's been edited out I suspect.

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  On 7/7/2023 at 2:23 AM, bradiston said:

Ah, it's been edited out I suspect.

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Well, it seems to have been edited out of any trustworthy source. Must be a massive conspiracy at work by the aspirin industry.

[glegolo18]

  On 7/6/2023 at 8:56 AM, placeholder said:

Except to point out how ridiculous your post was.

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No pointing at the wrong guy, why not point at the threadstarter.??? OK I know too much ganja I guess..... Come up with something or be quit...

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  On 7/7/2023 at 3:49 AM, glegolo18 said:

No pointing at the wrong guy, why not point at the threadstarter.??? OK I know too much ganja I guess..... Come up with something or be quit...

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When someone heaps unfounded abuse on those who might disagree with an article, I think it's in the interests of forum sanitation to address their comments. Or do you believe scottiejohn's characterization that this is "The understatement of the year which all the crack heads on here will now try to "prove" is wrong!"

[bradiston]

  On 7/7/2023 at 2:26 AM, placeholder said:

Well, it seems to have been edited out of any trustworthy source. Must be a massive conspiracy at work by the aspirin industry.

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Yes, and there's absolutely no doubt Gates and the WEF have a hand in it.

 

But no, there's no evidence I know of that aspirin is addictive. It was only in there as a foil, but you picked up on it.

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  On 7/7/2023 at 4:21 AM, bradiston said:

Yes, and there's absolutely no doubt Gates and the WEF have a hand in it.

 

But no, there's no evidence I know of that aspirin is addictive. It was only in there as a foil, but you picked up on it.

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The aspirin cartel is a fearful thing.

[bradiston]

  On 7/7/2023 at 4:24 AM, placeholder said:

The aspirin cartel is a fearful thing.

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Afraid I see TAT or cannabis in a headline and I go into debunk/spoof/irony mode. It's pointless arguing with the content. Weed has been around for millennia. Millions around the world have smoked it for millenia. In Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal and India in 1969 it was available anywhere. I bought an ounce of opium in the government shop in Kathmandu. It and hash were later criminalised. Decriminalisation is simply putting things back the way they used to be. There's nothing new in it. People who think it's the end of civilization should realize, drugs, psychotropic and all, have been around, and been part of, all civilizations from the outset. More like the start of civilization than the end. Nobody is forced to smoke weed. Yet!  But I'm sure WEF have an agenda for that too ????????????!

[scottiejohn]

  On 7/7/2023 at 5:44 AM, bradiston said:

Afraid I see TAT or cannabis in a headline and I go into debunk/spoof/irony mode. It's pointless arguing with the content. Weed has been around for millennia. Millions around the world have smoked it for millenia. In Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal and India

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And look at the state of those countries!

[bradiston]

  On 7/7/2023 at 8:46 AM, scottiejohn said:

And look at the state of those countries!

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Yeah, since they outlawed ganja. In 1969 they were peaceful countries you were free to travel through. Now? Well, you're right.

[placeholder]

  On 7/7/2023 at 5:44 AM, bradiston said:

Afraid I see TAT or cannabis in a headline and I go into debunk/spoof/irony mode. It's pointless arguing with the content. Weed has been around for millennia. Millions around the world have smoked it for millenia. In Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal and India in 1969 it was available anywhere. I bought an ounce of opium in the government shop in Kathmandu. It and hash were later criminalised. Decriminalisation is simply putting things back the way they used to be. There's nothing new in it. People who think it's the end of civilization should realize, drugs, psychotropic and all, have been around, and been part of, all civilizations from the outset. More like the start of civilization than the end. Nobody is forced to smoke weed. Yet!  But I'm sure WEF have an agenda for that too ????????????!

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except that if you were in "debunk/spoof/irony mode" why would list as well as aspirin, drugs that actually can be fatal? It doesn't really work as irony.