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Cannabis use associated with lower Covid severity among hospitalized patients

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> Active users were younger (44 years vs. 62 years, p < 0.001), less often diabetic (23.2% vs 37.2%, p < 0.021), and more frequently active tobacco smokers (20.3% vs. 4.1%, p < 0.001) compared to non-users.

Sooo we didn’t control for age?

Nor tobacco smoking. And in other words, cannabis use is correlated with lower-severity COVID cases needing hospitalization.

This makes sense to me as cannabis is known to directly suppress immune function (1) and a lot of the Covid damage was caused by the immune system going too hard (2).

1) https://www.livescience.com/9008-marijuana-suppresses-immune...

2) https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22700-cytokin...

There’s no distinction for intake Avenue, but I’m curious if you could control for that, might be fine that those who smoke have reduced oxygen already? So the smoking may have caused them to be used to operating with less oxygen.

I remember reading about this already eqrly into the pandemic. I thought that it was too good to be true, but kept consuming weed just to be on the safe side LOL

You can never be too safe, I always say.

Is there a disease that weed does not cure?! You can always find lame excuses to get high but even being a smoker was associated with better COVID-19 outcomes [0]!

[0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33246296/

Cannabis causes tons of people lots of problems. Not to mention that the most popular method of consumption is SMOKING. You are breaking molecular bonds and letting them recombine randomly.

Don't get me wrong, it has medicinal uses and I support the legalization of it, but people like you calling it a miracle cure for everything are insufferable.

CBD oil probably does much better than smoking pot, I'm sure, but as I said, people find all kinds of excuses to get high! The "pot head" term is not without reasons!

You have to be careful with smoking because it has a tendency to kill it’s users, leading to survivor bias

Damn it, I’m trying to quit. I don’t need to hear shit like this.

If you're trying to quit, try switching to eddibles. Longer time to have an effect makes it less addictive.

I’m trying to quit weed

It takes 4-6 weeks for your brain chemistry to return to normal after quitting. Good luck.

It is all a test and one you can be victorious in. Good luck.

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