It's been known for some time that cannabis causes an acute drop in blood pressure after a very short spell of spiking it (mere minutes), fainting being a natural human reaction as a result of syncope. This is where not enough blood gets to the brain, and the body responds by fainting in order to align the person horizontally to the floor and allow blood flow to more easily get to the brain. In this situation, he died upright on the couch and his body wasn't able to accomplish this. I'm not pulling this outta my ass, something I learned taking Pharmacology. It wasn't TOXICITY that killed him, it was the fact that by not 'properly' fainting, his brain wasn't able to get adequate blood flow. This isn't some new discovery of what weed does, it was just an extremely unfortunate and coincidental set of circumstances. Weed probably did more net good for his quality of life than bad, it just happened to be a factor in causing a side effect that's very well known to a guy who was predisposed to some pathological condition due to his car accident, who didn't end up fainting as he should have. Very sad. Watch any jiu jitsu tournament where a guy goes unconscious. Dyou think people are going to stand him upright? Hell no. They need to get blood to his brain, so they lift his legs above his head to help him come to faster.
Weed is not 'addicting' by scientific standards, as the author alluded to. He obviously doesn't know shit about the hallmark of an addictive substance, the mechanism of action of drugs, or why precisely any self respecting pharmacologist would tell you straight up why weed is not and should not be considered an addictive substance.
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