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   The evidence for keeping weed illegal keeps mounting — even as the laws   
   get looser.   
      
   A new, peer-reviewed study (on a significant data set of nearly 60,000   
   Canadians) has shown that adults who misuse pot have a 60% higher risk of   
   experiencing their first heart attack, stroke, or other major   
   cardiovascular event.   
      
   In other words: Weed’s not a harmless vice.   
      
   It’s a killer, like cigarettes.   
      
   And unlike cigarettes, it literally drives people insane.   
      
   A massive Danish study based on nearly 7 million health records drew a   
   strong correlation between heavy cannabis use and increased risk of   
   schizophrenia in young men.   
      
   That’s to say nothing of the fact that pot, no matter what its advocates   
   claim, likely serves as a gateway drug: Evidence suggests a link between   
   cannabis use in kids and later opioid use, and the drug can play a role in   
   rewiring the reward circuitry in young brains.   
      
   Or the soaring levels of THC — the psychoactive chemical in weed — seen   
   since the ’90s.   
      
   As use becomes more widespread, in other words, the drug is getting more   
   and more powerful.   
      
   Given the all-consuming safetyism that defines modern progressive   
   politics, the crusade to legalize weed (and normalize it!) is bizarre in   
   light of the increasing evidence it’s a terrible idea on health grounds.   
      
   With macabre, albeit unintentional humor, New York City’s own topsy-turvy   
   Health Department warns “Avoid smoking cannabis rolled or mixed with   
   tobacco” because “there is no safe amount of tobacco use.”   
      
   And in big cities like New York, letting people get high on the streets   
   supercharges the social decay caused by rollbacks of policing and   
   sentencing for more serious crimes.   
      
   As does the proliferation of plainly illegal weed shops here.   
      
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   Nearly a third of adults under 35 regularly smoke weed; nearly 70% of   
   Americans back legalization, despite all this.   
      
   They need to wake up and smell the blunt smoke before the next big drug   
   crisis arrives.   
      
   Turdzy McButterpants   
   29 September, 2023   
      
   The lung is a one of the most delicate organs in the body, and is   
   therefore highly vulnerable to damage. Your lungs were not designed to   
   inhale cigarette or weed smoke any more than your liver was designed to   
   process alcohol.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2023/09/29/weed-makes-you-crazy-and-gives-you-heart-   
   disease-whys-it-legal/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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