Do you like smoking grass? Prepare to break your heart, literally.
A flow of recent studies has detailed the damage caused by marijuana to your mental health, which brings the risks to a renewed level of media attention. Weed is linked to everything psychosis has violent behavior has dementia.
But 2025 was dominated by another bad news on marijuana: that it is just as bad for your heart health as for your mental health.
Consider a Meta-analysis of BMJ Heart which appeared last month.
The authors have examined dozens of studies on marijuana users and have found a double – yes, you read this right – a risk of cardiovascular death corresponding to the use of weeds, as well as a risk of 29% of major cardiac events.
Many American decision -makers and all of its dependence profiteers continue to insist on weeds are safe, healthy and natural. But BMJ data is only the tip of the iceberg.
A Can study at the University of California San Francisco found that marijuana was associated with vascular dysfunction in chronic users – without knowing if they smoked it or edible products.
There is no cheat code, in other words, to bypass the heart damage of marijuana. Gammies and candies will not save you.
Walking saw A meta-analysis leaves the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (Jacc) out of 12 studies examining more than 75 million cases to investigate the risk of heart attack in weeding users.
The results? Users are 51% more likely than non-users to have had a heart attack.
The bad news has not only struck in 2025, of course.
A 2024 Study of the American Heart Association have found that daily users had a risk of 25% higher heart crisis and 42% risk of stroke compared to non-users and that more frequent use has led to a higher risk. Another Jacc studyThis one of 2023 has shown that users had a risk of 34% higher to develop a coronary disease.
And again and again.
Lisbon, Portugal – May 31: A participant shows marijuana buds in the garden of Amoreiras before the start of a rally for the legalization and regulation of cannabis in Portugal on May 31, 2025, in Lisbon, Portugal.
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It is great that all this information allows more and more in the dominant current. The more people who are aware of it, the better the public health results for each American. This goes double since the United States faces a marijuana consumption crisis among young people and the elders (for whom heart concerns should be essential).
But people who pay attention to the public health dangers of marijuana have shouted on this subject for the roofs for decades.
A 2001 study published in the American Heart Association Journal noted that in the hour following the consumption of marijuana, the risk of a myocardial infarction jumps by almost 400%.
These data appeared almost a quarter of a century ago.
How did this aspect of the general weed public health effect Never Pass under the radar, especially since American culture has become focused on well-being in the meantime?
How many lives have been lost, people injured, families have been de -in?
The fact that weed’s heart dangers have never been less than a national history is the success of the marijuana industry, its defenders in the media and the politicians he co -opted was in the management of reputation.
Fortunately, the word now seems to have come out. But we must become stronger. It is time for everyone to count with this reality.
This means a renewed and urgent accent on the prevention of our decision -makers – and remember, prevention must target both young and old.
This means that energetic calls for journalists whenever “grass equals well-being” claims to start to bubble.
This means that parents let their children know that yes, marijuana can be fatal.
Everyone has invested in promoting healthy policy and public-health savings must take this to heart.
Dr. Kevin Sabet is the president and chief executive officer of Smart approaches to marijuana.
The points of view expressed in this article are the own writers.