Cannabis use will lower your blood [...] pressure.
So I dealt with blood pressure problems quite recently. The findings on the link between cannabis use and blood pressure are mixed. All throughout the internet I found warnings about excessive use leading to higher cardiovascular risk, specifically an
increase in blood pressure.
I was taking my BP several times a day for a month and a half. In the beginning, I had just "quit" smoking and taken a cold turkey sabbatical from drinking (the summer heat was going to kill me at work if I kept up my daily alcohol intake) and my BP was reading numbers like 160/120 at the doctor's office. I was put on BP medication (amlodipine), which was effective in bringing me down to about 140/110. After about a week of this, I had an urge to smoke/vape one night so I did. An hour or two later, I checked my BP and I was sitting at something like 92/65!
That turned into a trend, where I'd check my BP in the morning (sober) and get a reading of 110-120/70-90 and then at night after indulging I would be in the 90/60 range. That dropped it too low, in my opinion, so what did my brilliant ass decide? I was gonna keep vaping, but stop taking my BP medicine. Ever since I've been consistently around 100/75.
It's fucking nuts, man, but I definitely think the evidence in my case shows that cannabis lowers my blood pressure.
@xxsicknessxx , I'm not sure how cannabis directly effects blood sugar levels, but I know for a fact that poor eating habits can fuck those levels up. Chronic use of cannabis can for sure lead a person to eating a shitload of unhealthy junk food and, in turn, lead to blood sugar issues later down the line. As far as blood sugar goes, I would try to focus more on your eating habits than your weed habits.
ETA: HOLD THE FUCK UP! This thread's got me thinking about munchies... more specifically, what causes them. I don't feel like Googling a bunch of shit on my day off (I've got some Diablo 2 to play), but does anybody know if the munchies are a direct result of cannabis lowering blood sugar? Because that would make a bit of sense if that's the case.