He liked to sit cross-legged in that ceremonial way and how deftly he fingerd the white paper and laid out the bed of tobacco and how religously his lighter burned the marihjuana before letting it crown the bed of tobacco and then the deep inhalation on what looked
like a Tampon. "Fuck me...that is some hit," he would exclaim
What he didn't exclaim was that within a few minutes of smoking marihjuana, the heart begins beating more rapidly and the blood pressure drops. Marijuana can cause the heart beat to increase by 20 to 50 beats per minute, and can increase even more if other drugs are used at the same time. which in his case was uppers and downers
Because of the lower blood pressure and higher heart rate, researchers found that users' risk for a heart attack is four times higher within the first hour after smoking marijuana, compared to their general risk of heart attack when not smoking.
When the side effects of 'smoking' (hallucinations, delusions, impaired memory, disorientation) was pointed out to him he would wave it aside as that being "...just part of the deal."
And then he was gone, in a car 'accident' - he didn't notice that the light had changed. I guess.
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