Contents:
- Medical Video: High Blood Pressure – Are You Killing Yourself
- Rolling marijuana leaves increases the risk of dying from high blood pressure
- Why is that?
- Other adverse effects that may occur if you roll marijuana leaves in the long run
Medical Video: High Blood Pressure – Are You Killing Yourself
Marijuana akaCannabis sativais the most widely used type of drug in Indonesia. Compared to other drugs, marijuana is also considered the lightest level of danger. But watch out, rolling marijuana leaves as a fun way to be jazzed on a Saturday night can increase your risk of experiencing premature death due to high blood pressure complications. What is the reason?
Rolling marijuana leaves increases the risk of dying from high blood pressure
A study from Georgia State University in the United States was published on European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, reports that the risk of a person's death due to complications of hypertension increases up to three times if he routinely sucks marijuana leaves in the long term, compared to those who have never sucked marijuana leaves.
This finding was obtained after involving 1,213 people aged around 20 years or more, who had and never smoked marijuana, to observe their health development for one year from 2005 to 2006.
Among 1,213 study participants, 34% did not use marijuana and did not smoke tobacco, 21% used marijuana, 20% used marijuana and smoked tobacco, 16% used marijuana and no longer smoked, 5% no longer smoked, and 4% smoked tobacco . It is also known that the average duration of smoking marijuana from marijuana user groups ranged from 11 years.
The researcher then adjusted the data with several common hypertension risk factors, such as smoking habits, gender, age, and ethnicity. They too combining the data with data on deaths in 2011 from U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. The result,Cannabis users have a risk of death 3 times higher because of hypertension compared to non-users.
The study also found that every additional year of using marijuana, the risk of death due to complications of high blood pressure also increased.
Why is that?
This is not a surprise. In the body, marijuana works to affect the sympathetic nervous system in the brain which functions to regulate the work of the heart and blood vessels.Three hours after consuming marijuana, the heart rate will increase,which thenwill increase blood pressure. Dlong term nature, the effect of marijuana can cause instability in the heart rhythm (arrhythmia). Uncontrolled high blood pressure can increase your risk of heart disease later in life.
A heart that beats too fast cannot pump optimally. As a result, the blood flow is stagnant and eventually clots. When blood clots block the brain arteries, this will result in ischemic stroke. Likewise with high blood pressure. When blood pressure is too high in the long term, blood vessels can rupture and cause hemorrhagic strokes.Complaints of chest pain and heart attacks after consuming marijuana have been reported.
Other adverse effects that may occur if you roll marijuana leaves in the long run
Not only can it increase the risk of death due to uncontrolled complications of hypertension, long-term marijuana sucking is also associated with the risk of developing depressive and / or psychotic symptoms as in schizophrenia.
Besides that, smoking marijuana can alsocause the same respiratory problems as smoking. The components in marijuana can cause irritated lungs, causing coughing, excessive phlegm production, and a high risk of developing lung diseases such as pneumonia.
The long-term effects of cannabis use in both men and women can affect fertility. In men it can result in a decrease in testosterone levels which has an effect on reducing sperm count. In addition, the risk of suffering from erectile dysfunction until testicular cancer also becomes higher. In women, rolling cannabis leaves can cause the menstrual cycle to become irregular.
