Some info is emerging about marijuana use in the young and cardiovascular problems

[Yo_Mama]

25. My point is that a specialized reporting system is being suggested

Now, medically it's warranted, because we do know that some young healthy people are having very serious CV events from using marijuana. You can slap them on a heart monitor and have them smoke, and watch the cardiac havoc unfold before your eyes. Okay? And I've got to tell you that we've got others who have apparently great labs, but when you start doing the full analysis the inflammation jumps out at you. These are young people. It does appear that for an unlucky few, something is happening.

We DON'T know how common it is. We suspect that it's quite uncommon, because otherwise there would be dead bodies all over the place.

Finding that link probably would require a CV event reporting system, but if this is done in places in which pot is illegal, then confidentiality should be ironclad! I would think pot smokers would care about this!

If you will read the post, you'll see what I am saying. Knowledge is good. If you legalize marijuana, then this can be done without a problem. But right now it's still illegal in a lot of states, and I don't think doctors want to be slapped with mandatory reporting without mandatory confidentiality. Like HIV. Right? You are trying to treat the patient, and you don't want anything to get in the way of it. And WTF are we supposed to do if we are given a mandate to report without an assurance of confidentiality?

I would think people who use pot would get why this could be an issue! You need to be able to be honest with your doctor without taking chances of getting some over-zealous cop jumping down your throat. Your doctor needs to be able to ask you the question without fearing that if he charts honestly he may take the chance of violating some damned law, or having to report something to a state system that doesn't have legal confidentiality built in which could screw you, the patient.