Cannabis users who contract the Covid virus are significantly more likely to require hospital treatment, a new study shows. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison looked at health records of 72,501 people who were treated for Covid in hospitals in the Midwest between 2020 and 2022. The study published last week shows that people who said they had used cannabis during the preceding year before catching Covid were 80 percent more likely to be hospitalized.
They were also 27 percent more likely to need intensive care treatment than those who had not used cannabis, the study found. New York midwife guilty of destroying 2,600 Covid vaccines and creating fake car Anthony Fauci denies trying to cover up Covid-19 lab leak theory Researchers said the data could put cannabis use on par with smoking tobacco, as it could be a risk factor for severe disease. Professor Li-Shiun Chen, senior author of the study, said in a statement: “There’s this sense among the public that cannabis is safe to use, that it’s not as bad for your health as smoking or drinking, that it may even be good for you.
I think that’s because there hasn’t been as much research on the health effects of cannabis as compared to tobacco or alcohol." Chen added: "What we found is that cannabis use is not harmless in the context of Covid-19. People who reported yes to current cannabis use, at any frequency, were more likely to require hospitalization and .
