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Can marijuana prevent heart attacks?


Kevin Smith says smoking weed pre-heart attack saved his life.

By Meagan Morris, Metro

Writer and director Kevin Smith survived a "widowmaker" heart attack earlier this year — a heart attack that kills 80 percent of people who have one.

How did Smith manage to survive? Weed.

"They got me to the hospital and they wheel me into the emergency room and the whole time I’m chill. Like, the guy said, the paramedic, he goes, 'You’re being real calm, that’s going to get you through this,'" Smith told Stephen Colbert on May 1.

"And there’s a dude behind him [that] goes, 'That’s what’s going to save his life.' And I’m like, 'What does that part [mean]?'"


"He said, 'no, quite the opposite. That weed saved your life,'" Smith said.

Can marijuana prevent a heart attack?



The reason: Smoking weed "increases the heart rate by about 40 beats per minute," lead study author, Dr. Murray Mittleman, director of cardiovascular epidemiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center said at the time.

"It also causes the blood pressure to increase when the person is lying down, and then abruptly fall when the person stands up, often causing dizziness," he added. "These effects may pose significant risk, especially in people with unrecognized coronary disease."


What current research says about marijuana and heart attacks


Yes, at least according to a 2017 study from Philadelphia's Einstein Medical Center.



Can anything related to marijuana help your heart?

As Harvard pointed out, marijuana is still considered a Schedule I substance, meaning the federal government views it as having "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse," making it difficult for in-depth research on its health effects.



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