Acute Cardiovascular Effects of Marijuana Use
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Cardiovascular Effects of Marijuana.
Plants of the Cannabis species, commonly known as marijuana, contain numerous psychoactive components, including the primary psychoactive compound D-9-tetrahyrdocannabinol (THC). The World Health Organization (WHO) describes cannabis as the most widely used, cultivated, and trafficked illicit drug in the world, with an estimated 147 million people using the drug annually. Consistent with worldw...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of General Internal Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0884-8734,1525-1497
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-019-05235-9