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Whatever the statistics may be with this. I'm not a marijuana partaker but I'll say this: the #1 killer in this life is stress. I feel there's too many factors at play for data like this. Is it from the coughing, how does that weigh in on it? Is it from the binge eating? is it from the lack of mobility?

I read the articles before NY Times picked them up; it's paywalled.

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> Is it from the coughing, how does that weigh in on it? Is it from the binge eating? is it from the lack of mobility?

THC is hypothesized to have direct effects on the vascular system that might lead to CVD, so none of these.

Paywalled, can't see. But if it's empirical, a positive correlation on top of a negative one, would be undistinguishable from no correlation. This in fact may be very common, but the bottom line is what the sum of the effects is rather than the individual forces.

Suppose the same can be said for alcohol and relaxation, if we see evidence of more heart attacks, it means the negative effect is bigger than the (hypothetical) positive.

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