Overview

• A Heart journal meta-analysis of 24 studies involving over 200 million adults found cannabis users face twice the mortality risk from cardiovascular disease.
• The study reports a 29% higher chance of acute coronary syndrome and a 20% elevated risk of stroke among users compared with non-users.
• Authors call for tobacco-like regulations, including mandatory product warnings and bystander protections from secondhand exposure.
• Average THC potency in legal markets has risen from under 10% in the 1990s to roughly 19% in Colorado today, raising concerns about stronger formulations.
• Daily marijuana users now exceed daily alcohol drinkers and federal regulators are moving to reclassify cannabis to a lower-risk schedule under the Controlled Substances Act.