Smoking marijuana or “vaping” it are both bad for the heart, according to a statement issued Wednesday by the American Heart Association (AHA).
As CNN reported, actual scientific research on marijuana and its effects on users’ health systems has been severely limited, due to the plant’s status, in the United States, as a Class I controlled substance, which means that the federal government deems it to have “no medical benefit.” As such, that severely limits how cannabis can be studied in controlled, scientific conditions, particularly when it comes to federally-funded research labs.
Nevertheless, the AHA looked at what data is available, and published its findings in its journal Circulation. And their conclusion is that ingesting marijuana via smoking it (which is to say, burning flowers and ingesting the smoke) or “vaping” it (which is to say, using an electronic vaporizer device that heats an oil containing THC, the psychoactive component in marijuana that gives users a “high”).
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