[In the news station]: "We found one! We found one!" *confetti drops*

This was in the news in Germany:

http://www.medicinalgeno...nfluence-of-cannabis.pdf

This is a case to pay attention to. I suspect these folks had genetic predispositions to THC tachycardia. Keep in mind 1000s die from aspirin every year but we will learn from this like no other ADR.

Ill post it in a bit. Its not a great paper. Full of holes.

1)As you folks mentioned,the list of other drugs screened for is not given although one patient is positive for nicotine and caffeine. How they come to the conclusion that THC caused the cardiac death as opposed to caffeine is not given? They reference cardiac ischemia without referencing mechoulams work which showcases protection from hypoxic cardiac ischemia.

2)the sequencing they performed to detect potential genetic predispositions was minimal by modern standards and very poorly described. This is the red herring in the paper. To link this to cannabis while performing a blatantly narrow genetic screen is absurd.

In summary, 2 people died who had THC in their blood stream. Meanwhile thousands die with water in their blood stream.

The federal government is panicked about marijuana legalization. They cannot stand the idea of losing an effective method for destroying and controlling people with such easy-to-enforce regulations. Being arrested destroys your autonomy and essentially makes you a ward or slave to the state for the duration of your sentence and beyond. The agencies that benefit from and exist because of marijuana prohibition are pouring millions and millions of dollars into research desperately seeking some marijuana-related horror that will reverse the tsunami for legalization. Pathetic, researchstitutes take the money and work to design studies that will yield some terrible data about cannabis, but they cannot honestly accomplish that so the studies are done with powerful synthetic cannabinoids that are injected into rats or mice and then the results are reported as if they correspond to humans smoking natural marijuana. Another scam these sell-outs and ideologues pull is to seek an unusual illness and determine that the patient has smoked marijuana and then report it as the cause of the ailment without ANY correlating evidence. There was such a report in the scientific literature trying to suggest that smoking marijuana caused "vanishing lung disease" and I forwarded it to a pulmonary researcher who essentially told me it is bullshit and something of a disgrace that it was published. Be aware of how desperate the drug war profiteers in law enforcement and the treatment industry are to keep their ill-gotten profits rolling in. Soon they will need to seek honest work.

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^ That's exactly what i thought!
Thank you Ufostrahlen!

Load of rubbish. Never a recorded death in history and as soon as people start legalizing it this happens ? Yeah right. Prove the THC or CBD caused a heart attack, someone... anyone... no? Okay.

...The risk of myocardial infarction onset was elevated 4.8 times over baseline (95% confidence interval, 2.4 to 9.5) in the 60 minutes after marijuana use. The elevated risk rapidly decreased thereafter.

Conclusions—Smoking marijuana is a rare trigger of acute myocardial infarction. Understanding the mechanism through which marijuana causes infarction may provide insight into the triggering of myocardial infarction by this and other, more common stressors.

I could imagine someone who was already suffering from a weak heart, who happened to smoke too much of cannabis that was too strong might, on a bad day, suffer from cardiac failure.

A young soldier who had vainly tried to commit suicide by smoking cannabis
spent 4 days in coma and claimed afterwards that others had used this method effectively
before

Toxicological examinations proved the acute influence of cannabis [..]
General unknown screening for other common drugs was negative with the exception
of nicotine and caffeine levels

[..]

We concluded that death occurred due to acute global cardiac failure under the acute influence of cannabis.

[..]

After exclusion of other causes of death we assume that the young men died from
cardiovascular complications evoked by smoking cannabis.

[..]

We assume the deaths of these two young men occurred due to arrhythmias evoked by smoking cannabis; however this assumption does not rule out the presence of predisposing cardiovascular factors.

And "General unknown screening for other common drugs" means nothing, have they screened the weed or blood for 5F-PB-22, 5-F-AKB48 or other novel synthetic cannabinoids? The paper doesn't tell. FYI, 5F-PB-22 & 5-F-AKB48 are readily available in Germany via mail order to lace the weed. I'm not so sure however if drug screens can detect these novel substances.