Cannabis Users Have Higher Levels of Toxic Heavy Metals in Their Bodies: Study

Cannabis Users Have Higher Levels of Toxic Heavy Metals in Their Bodies: Study
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Lorenz Duchamps
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A new study has found that marijuana users have statistically higher levels of lead and cadmium in their blood and urine compared to people who don’t use the drug.

In the study, published in the Environmental Health Perspectives journal on Aug. 30, researchers said that they compared cannabis users who exclusively used the drug to people who neither used marijuana nor tobacco. The study concluded that marijuana users had “significantly higher” levels of toxic heavy metals in their bodies.
Lorenz Duchamps
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