OAKLAND — A growing body of scientific evidence is raising serious concerns about the health impacts of cannabis use — particularly its links to heart attacks, stroke, and cardiovascular death — according to a powerful new editorial published this week in Heart, a peer-reviewed medical journal of the British Medical Journal (BMS) and the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS).The editorial by Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, Professor of Medicine (retired), University of California San Francisco and Lynn Silver, MD, MPH Director of Getting it Right from the Start, a program of the Public Health Institute, reviews a new meta-analysis of 24 recent studies, showing significantly increased risk of cardiovascular events among cannabis users, including:More than doubling of the risk of card
