Letter to the Editor: What is the Association of Cannabis Consumption and Cardiovascular Complications?

Cannabis is a frequently used recreational drug that potentially imposes several health consequences. While the medicinal use of cannabis is legal in several countries, its possession in small quantities for the purpose of personal use has a worldwide trend to become decriminalized and effectively legal.1 In the author’s knowledge, the accessibility and overall usage of cannabis is steadily increasing. In fact, it has been advocated that marijuana is the most popularly used illegal drug worldwide.2 The current wave of decriminalization is expected to produce a more widespread recreational use, and it is imperative that cardiologists are aware of the potential cannabis-associated cardiovascular complications. This article is an editorial presenting several reported cases in the literature implicating marijuana smoking in cardiovascular complications, and we concisely discuss the potential underlying mechanisms as well as the clinical implications of this emerging phenomenon.