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by kranner 27 days ago
Edible forms of cannabis raise heart rate and blood pressure substantially as well.
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I think this is making the assumption that temporally elevated HR and BP is bad.
Right, the rationale for why saunas and heat stress is good for you is specifically because it raises the heart rate.
Hot sauna is often cautioned against for those with existing cardiac or vascular problems, with some reason.
Exercising or stressing damaged or degenerated tissues = bad
Sauna raises HR without increasing blood pressure though (modulo some possible initial short spike at the beginning), because your blood vessels dilate.
Cannabis causes dilation of blood vessels and elevated HR, it’s the same effect. If you take a big dab you can definitely feel your blood pressure drop and muscles relax even though your heart rate has increased.
It's a fair assumption being a known potential cause of death. Of course I'm now assuming death is bad.
By that argumentation sport is bad and a potential death risk factor, it also elevates heart rate and blood pressure!
It has substantially more benefit than that risk. Physical exertion also has the added benefit of lowering rest hr and bp.
Yeah! I added that as an example and then edited it out.

Your parent's comment makes no sense.

Water can kill you, too! It does not mean that drinking water is bad.

I think you'd be surprised how often doctors still say that
Not to mention art, sex, walking, etc, etc
Yeah it raises heart rate and blood pressure bc it dilates your blood vessels. The raised HR/BP are to counter that so you keep pushing the same amount of O2 per unit time.
That's one of the reasons. The primary reason is THC is a partial CB1 receptor agonist - CB1 is abundant in the central and peripheral nervous systems - so it increases sympathetic nervous system activity and norepinephrine, both of which raise heart rate independent of vasodilation.
Dilation lowers blood pressure
It's more nuanced than that.