Smoking weed, especially at first, raises pulse rate and blood pressure. When you have a weakness in a vessel--a little balloon like an aneurysm--that's not at all a good thing. Smoking raises the risk of rupture, particularly during the initial, vasocontrictive post-smoking period.

Eating weed is likely safer, which is why the others were recommending that. But Dave, who is a man who deals with blood vessels for a living, wondered if it might not still be minimally risky if, say, the eaten weed were a heavy sativa and caused even some slight risk of some vasoconstriction/raised BP at it was first being digested. The problem with street-bought weed is that no one really knows with real accuracy what strain it is, so unless she's grown it herself and knows it to be a wholly relaxing, vaso-dilating indica, he was simply questioning taking that risk at all. It's a legitimate question to raise.
birdgirl73 Reviewed by birdgirl73 on . Sad day. Diagnosed with aneurysm. Think I have to give up weed. Hello everyone. I am so sad and scared today. I got an MRI for weird tingling symptoms (I'm kind of a hypochondriac and figured that was what they would tell me) well, lo and behold it showed I have a small 2mm aneurysm in the left middle cerebral artery. Since the diagnosis, I have been a total wreck. The doc sent me home and I don't even get to consult with a neurosurgeon until March 16th. Apparently no one but me is concerned this thing is going to rupture anytime soon. This Rating: 5