By Anna Boyd Just days after a White House Office of National Drug Control Policy report revealed that teen using marijuana increase their risk of developing a mental disorder by 40 percent, now, another government research reports that smoking...

Researchers from the National Institute of Drug Abuse proved that consuming marijuana limbers up the chances to develop heart diseases. It seems that smoking marijuana determines the body to produce a greater quantity of a protein that increases levels of blood fats, which are closely linked to heart attack and stroke. The study was published in the May 13 issue of Molecular Psychiatry.

“We've done a number of clinical papers reporting on marijuana users. In the past, we have reported cognitive abnormalities, and a paper in 2005 reported vascular [blood vessel] abnormalities," said Dr. Jean Lud Cadet, chief of the Molecular Neuropsychiatry Research Branch of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, as cited by

the U.S. News & World Report.

There were 18 long-term heavy users of marijuana and 24 nonusers involved in the study. With the help of a new electronic technology it was possible for the researchers to analyse the blood levels of a variety of proteins.

The outcome of the study revealed that marijuana users had higher blood levels of apolipoprotein C-III than the nonusers. APOC-III is one of a large family of proteins that interact with fats. It detains the breakdown of...
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