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2. What You Should Know About Marijuana and High Blood Pressure

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   More and more states are legalizing marijuana for medical and/or recreational use. High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart attack and stroke. Stage 1 hypertension is defined as a ...

3. Effects of cannabis - Wikipedia

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   The short-term effects of cannabis are caused by many chemical compounds in the cannabis plant, including 113 [clarification needed] different cannabinoids, such as tetrahydrocannabinol, and 120 terpenes, [1] which allow its drug to have various psychological and physiological effects on the human body.

4. Medical cannabis - Wikipedia

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   Also, the advent of the hypodermic syringe allowed these drugs to be injected for immediate effect, in contrast to cannabis which is not water-soluble and therefore cannot be injected. [ 87 ] In the United States, the medical use of cannabis further declined with the passage of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 , which imposed new regulations and ...

5. Medical cannabis research - Wikipedia

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   The earliest systematic studies of physiological effects of cannabis-derived chemical were conducted in the 1920's (see Fig. The number of publications about marijuana/cannabis). The level or research activity in this area remained relatively low and constant until 1966, when a 10-fold increase in publication activity occurred within 10 years.

6. Using marijuana may affect your ability to think and plan ...

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   Weed affects your ability to make decisions, control emotions, remember important data, plan, organize and solve problems, a new study found, and that impact may last well past your initial high.

7. Long-term effects of cannabis - Wikipedia

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   The acute effects of cannabis use in humans include a dose-dependent increase in heart rate, typically accompanied by a mild increase in blood pressure while lying down and postural hypotension - a drop in blood pressure when standing up. These effects may vary depending on the relative concentration of the many different cannabinoids that can ...

8. Recreational drug use - Wikipedia

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   Common effects may include increased alertness, awareness, wakefulness, endurance, productivity, and motivation, arousal, locomotion, heart rate, and blood pressure, and a diminished desire for food and sleep. Use of stimulants may cause the body to significantly reduce its production of endogenous compounds that fulfill similar functions.

9. Cannabinoid receptor - Wikipedia

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   While the most likely cellular targets and executors of the CB 2 receptor-mediated effects of endocannabinoids or synthetic agonists are the immune and immune-derived cells (e.g. leukocytes, various populations of T and B lymphocytes, monocytes/macrophages, dendritic cells, mast cells, microglia in the brain, Kupffer cells in the liver ...