Good evening Rad. I'm here with my report on my blood pressure readings following the administration of cannabis. JimmyJ and I got into a discussion over here a week or so back and we did an experiment, tracking our readings for one session a day over a week. Since this is where we had that discussion and you were talking about your BP, I thought this would be a good first place to drop this info. I'll be sharing it in a couple other places.
I hope you don't mind if we clutter up your journal a bit. Jimmy will be by sometime tonight with his report.
I went with one reading before and then followed the buzz (six hits on a bong) with readings at 5 minutes, 15 minutes and 30 minutes. My results:
BP Pulse
12/2
Before: 126/85 - 54
5min: 116/79 - 60
15 min: 108/73 - 57
30 min: 126/78 - 57
12/3
Before: 102/82 - 67
5 min: 98/71 - 66
15 min: 104/63 - 64
30 min: 106/62 - 65
12/4
Before: 102/72 - 69
5 min: 102/68 - 61
15 min: 97/72 - 64
30 min: 107/66 - 66 * I was laughing really hard right before this one.
12/5
Before: 109/61 - 59
5 min: 100/68 - 60
10 min: 99/60 - 62
30 min: 92/62 - 64
12/6
Before: 126/69 - 75
5 min: 86/66 - 74
15 min: 86/69 - 75
30 min: 89/62 - 80
12/7
Before: 112/63 - 72
5 min: 84/62 - 85
15 min: 97/78 - 74
30 min: 86/63 - 77
12/8
Before: 93/66 - 74
5min: 90/65 - 76
15 min: 87/68 - 77
30 min: 87/59 - 70
Two things became apparent. First, you get an appreciable drop in blood pressure after a buzz, and then it slowly begins to creep back up. The second thing I noticed is that for all the cannabis sativa I consume I'm pretty chill.
Those are some decent readings and they stayed fairly consistent.
Aside from the drop in pressure immediately following, I couldn't discern any other patterns after just a week's worth of readings. This was fun to do, once I figured out how to remember to do it. Lol!
The big takeaway? If you have low BP, use caution. Other than that, try not to take a big hit and jump up to run off somewhere. Your body might have other ideas.
