Researchers studied heavy pot users and found that they had a higher concentration of a certain protein, which is associated with a higher concentration of a certain kind of fat, which is associated with hardening of the arteries, which is associated with a higher risk of a heart attack. The subjects in the study smoked between 78 and 350 joints per week, or 11-50 a day.

Things confirmed to increase your risk of heart attack:

• Being a man
• Being old
• Being a post-menopausal woman
• Being fat
• Being stressed and angry
• Smoking Tobacco
• Drinking excessive alcohol
• Using Vioxx
• Diabetes
• Being Black, Mexican, or Native American
• Not exercising
• High cholesterol
• High blood pressure
• (note none of these things are illegal)

Eighty years of trying to demonize marijuana and this is what they come up with? It sure is a good thing they put all those low-level weed users in jail with mandatory sentences.

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