Cannabis, Ischemic Stroke, and Transient Ischemic Attack

Background and Purpose—There is a temporal relationship between cannabis use and stroke in case series and population-based studies.

Methods—Consecutive stroke patients, aged 18 to 55 years, who had urine screens for cannabis were compared with a cohort of control patients admitted to hospital without cardiovascular or neurological diagnoses.

Results—One hundred sixty of 218 (73%) ischemic stroke/transient ischemic attack patients had urine drug screens (100 men; mean [SD] age, 44.8 [8.7] years). Twenty-five (15.6%) patients had positive cannabis drug screens.   Read more