The warning comes too late for some patients. As Donald Trump pushes to soften federal rules on marijuana, a heart surgeon steps forward with a chilling message. He’s seen the inside of the lungs of people who thought weed was harmless. Blackened tissue. Blocked arteries. Bypass surgeries. They all said the same thing befo…
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.
