Epoch Times - Alex Berenson Warns That THC Can Cause Severe Heart Damage

Jan. 2, 2026 - Epoch Times

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Alex Berenson Warns That THC Can Cause Severe Heart Damage

🔴 WATCH THE FULL EPISODE: https://ept.ms/3NbJo9LShow more What shocked Alex Berenson most in his marijuana research was not the psychosis link, but these two things: emerging data on severe heart damage in young users and spikes in high‑speed crashes after legalization. “There's increasing evidence in the last ten years that cannabis and THC…can cause really severe heart damage. There is a link to myocardial infarction, heart attacks, and that link is pretty strong. Now you can find papers that show a 3x increase over a multi-year period, and these are young people,” he says. States that have legalized marijuana use have also seen a lot more high-speed car accidents, directly contradicting the popular belief that cannabis users drive more slowly or cautiously. Show less
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	What are some other things that kind of shocked you in your research when it came to marijuana?
	Like were surprising?
	So I would say that there are two things that, you know, beyond the sort of psychosis connection and this sort of increased link to schizophrenia, which is a terrible disease, a disease I would not wish on, you know, my worst enemy.
	There's increasing evidence in the last 10 years that cannabis and THC, and this is not from smoking, this apparently is from the effect of the chemical itself, can cause really severe heart damage.
	There is a link to MIs, myocardial infarction, heart attacks.
	And that link is pretty strong now.
	You can find papers that show a 3X increase over a multi-year period.
	And these are young people, right?
	So they're very low baseline risk, but the risk is very real and increased.
	And then the other is, you know, I think a lot of people think, oh, cannabis, you know, if you're using and you're stoned, you're just going to drive very slowly and cautiously.
	For whatever reason, in states that have legalized, they see a lot of high-speed car accidents with cannabis.
	And whether, and whether that's because people are getting paranoid and just driving really fast, whether it's because it's just the intoxication effects, this idea that, you know, when you get stoned, you just drive 10 miles an hour.
	And if anything, your problem is that you're not moving at all turns out not to be true.

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What are some other things that kind of shocked you in your research when it came to marijuana?

Like were surprising?

So I would say that there are two things that, you know, beyond the sort of psychosis connection and this sort of increased link to schizophrenia, which is a terrible disease, a disease I would not wish on, you know, my worst enemy.

There's increasing evidence in the last 10 years that cannabis and THC, and this is not from smoking, this apparently is from the effect of the chemical itself, can cause really severe heart damage.

There is a link to MIs, myocardial infarction, heart attacks.

And that link is pretty strong now.

You can find papers that show a 3X increase over a multi-year period.

And these are young people, right?

So they're very low baseline risk, but the risk is very real and increased.

And then the other is, you know, I think a lot of people think, oh, cannabis, you know, if you're using and you're stoned, you're just going to drive very slowly and cautiously.

For whatever reason, in states that have legalized, they see a lot of high-speed car accidents with cannabis.

And whether, and whether that's because people are getting paranoid and just driving really fast, whether it's because it's just the intoxication effects, this idea that, you know, when you get stoned, you just drive 10 miles an hour.

And if anything, your problem is that you're not moving at all turns out not to be true.