[neongodzilla]

Correlation isn't causation.

I know, the headline only says "linked", but most people skip over that nuance.

The type of person that would use marijuana daily may not be the type of person to exercise much as they should, or eat as well as they should, or maybe they have incredibly bad anxiety..

[cooper_ganglia]

As someone who smoked for their anxiety, I had bad anxiety caused by THC withdrawal, so I kept smoking or else my "anxiety" came back. Go for 4-6 weeks without any THC and there's a decent chance your anxiety levels drop like a rock by the end. It gets worse before it gets better.

[readthenotes1]

Think about going into the hospital and not having access to your drug of choice.

Think the anxiety might spike, along with the likelihood of a heart incident?

[DontchaKnowit]

Eh I dont buy it. I know people who smoke daily and eat healthy and excercise often. And vice versa. Is it all that surprising that a drug that spikes your heartrate and blood pressure every time you use it might do damage to your heart if you use it regularly? Seems pretty intuitive to me.

[meiraleal]

It seems pretty intuitive to me that it could also make your system stronger? Many mechanisms in the body work like that

[inglor_cz]

These are just fairly nonspecific symptoms, much like fever. The underlying mechanism matters.

You can get your heart racing by exercise and you can get your heart racing by drinking ten coffees in a row. I don't think the resulting changes in the organism will be precisely the same, otherwise people would just drink loads of coffee to get fit.

More likely, the observed effects like increased blood pressure are just downstream from some deeper metabolic events, and it is those deeper events that are decisive for your future health.