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While the political battle over marijuana focuses on rescheduling and tax codes, inside the operating room the debate looks very different. Heart surgeon Jeremy London describes opening chests of regular marijuana smokers and finding lungs stained black, as if they had spent a lifetime in coal mines. Some of these patients never touched a cigarette, yet arrived with arteries so dangerously clogged that only emergency bypass surgery could keep them alive.<\/p>\n

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London doesn\u2019t argue against research or medicine; he argues against denial. Trump\u2019s move to reclassify cannabis may indeed unlock better science and safer treatments. But London\u2019s message cuts through the optimism: smoke is still smoke, and your heart and lungs cannot tell the difference between politics and physiology. For the patients who whispered, \u201cI thought it was safe,\u201d that realization came on an operating table, under unforgiving lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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