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Can Smoking Marijuana Through A Vaporizer Increase Risk Of Stroke Considering Having Stroke Previously?
My wife has antiphospholipid syndrome and had a stroke 7 years ago. . She used to enjoy smoking marijuana and stopped after this happened for fear of smoke increasing her risk. She recently decided to stop drinking alcohol altogether and is wondering if using marijuana through a vaporizer is any better than smoke. Or are there other concerns of marijuana increasing her risk of another stroke? She is on coumadin daily now.
Wed, 22 Jan 2014
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Vaporization is an alternative to smoking that avoids the inhalation of many irritating toxic and carcinogenic by-products, but chances of stroke has increase after smoking marijuana. The researchers found 16 percent of the subjects who went to the hospital following a stroke episode had marijuana in their system. it would be better for her to leave marijuana. Rest her wish
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Vaporization is an alternative to smoking that avoids the inhalation of many irritating toxic and carcinogenic by-products, but chances of stroke has increase after smoking marijuana. The researchers found 16 percent of the subjects who went to the hospital following a stroke episode had marijuana in their system. it would be better for her to leave marijuana. Rest her wish
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