Smoking or ingesting marijuana seems to be safe for most\npeople, but for older people with cardiovascular disease, it may cause\nproblems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The benefits of\nmarijuana<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As the benefits of marijuana come to light, more states are\nchoosing to legalize the drug. Some people are using it relieve chronic pain,\ncombat nausea or improve sleep, others find that it helps relief stress and\nanxiety. In appropriate doses, weed seems to be safe for most people, but one\nparticular case is highlighting the potential risks for older adults with\ncardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A dangerous lollipop<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to a report published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology<\/em>, a 70-year-old man with stable\ncoronary artery disease ate a lollipop infused with 90 mg of THC. He was hoping\nto minimize pain and improve his sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To give you an idea of how much THC that is, a typical joint\nwould probably have only 7 mg of THC. Likewise, people with cancer or AIDS who\nare looking to fight off nausea and beef up their appetite might start with a\n2.5 mg dose of synthetic THC called dronabinol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After eating the lollipop, the man had anxiety,\nhallucinations and a heart attack. He experienced chest pain, a rapid heart\nrate, hypertension and the release of catecholamine (a stress hormone).\nLuckily, most of these symptoms disappeared after the effects of the marijuana\nwore off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Safety\nrecommendations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Because most people don\u2019t consume that much THC, it\u2019s likely\na rare occurrence. Still, doctors advise older people to start with the\nsmallest dose possible or, better still, to avoid THC altogether if they have a\ncardiovascular condition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One safe alternative is cannabidiol, which is a\nnonpsychoactive alternative to THC. For older adults who want to try THC, it\nmight be safer to try a vaporizer, for example, rather than consuming a brownie\nor candy with THC, because it would expose them to a lower dosage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Smoking or ingesting marijuana seems to be safe for most people, but for older people with cardiovascular disease, it may cause problems. The benefits of marijuana As the benefits of marijuana come to light, more states are choosing to legalize the drug. Some people are using it relieve chronic pain, combat nausea or improve sleep, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[690],"tags":[760,743,968,969,970],"class_list":["post-13369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wellness","tag-cardiovascular","tag-heart-disease","tag-marijuana","tag-pot","tag-weed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}