{"id":18045,"date":"2026-04-26T18:17:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=18045"},"modified":"2026-04-26T18:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:17:42","slug":"heart-surgeon-explains-how-weed-affects-your-body-as-new-warnings-surface-about-serious-side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=18045","title":{"rendered":"Heart Surgeon Explains How Weed Affects Your Body As New Warnings Surface About Serious Side Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"228\">A growing health warning is drawing attention as a heart surgeon explains what smoking cannabis may be doing to the body\u2014especially the heart and lungs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"230\" data-end=\"340\">While marijuana is now legal in many parts of the U.S., doctors say legalization doesn\u2019t mean it is risk-free.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"342\" data-end=\"610\">Cardiac specialist Dr. Jeremy London has warned that smoking weed can increase the risk of coronary disease and heart attack by <strong data-start=\"470\" data-end=\"488\">1.3 to 2 times<\/strong> compared to non-users. He also notes that some regular users show serious lung damage similar to heavy cigarette smokers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"612\" data-end=\"826\">Medical experts are also raising concerns about <strong data-start=\"660\" data-end=\"699\">cannabis hyperemesis syndrome (CHS)<\/strong>\u2014a condition linked to long-term use that can cause severe nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain lasting for hours or even days.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"828\" data-end=\"1025\">A separate study found cannabis users may have a <strong data-start=\"877\" data-end=\"912\">50% higher risk of heart attack<\/strong>, while the American Lung Association continues to caution against smoking anything due to long-term lung damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A growing health warning is drawing attention as a heart surgeon explains what smoking cannabis may be doing to the body\u2014especially the heart and lungs. While marijuana is now legal in many parts of the U.S., doctors say legalization doesn\u2019t mean it is risk-free. Cardiac specialist Dr. Jeremy London has warned that smoking weed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18047,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18045\/revisions\/18047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}