Is drug use a risk factor for vaccine injuries? Case report of marijuana myocarditis suggests the answer might be yes
The epidemiological implications are not trivial
Science is not always a dull affair. Every once in a while, a study comes along forging a path through the unelucidated void presenting an avant garde curveball unanticipated by the experts, such as the following case report study:
COVID-19 Vaccine Cardiac Complications: A Case Series on Implications of Marijuana in Adolescents With Myopericarditis
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35663665/
Case Presentation:
An 18-year-old previously healthy male with a past medical history of asthma presented to the emergency room for a sudden onset of chest pain. The chest pain started 30 minutes before arrival while he was vaping marijuana. He reported using increasing amounts of cannabis and vaping in the preceding few days.
Urine toxicology reports revealed marijuana was positive, and SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was negative. He had received his Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination two months prior to the presentation.
(Despite the implication of the title, only one of the two patients was noted for marijuana use.)
There are three significant dimensions of turpitude showcased by this case report:
Failure of scientists and regulators to “do the science”
Pathology of vaccine injuries - is drug use a risk factor or actively involved in the pathology of vaccine side effects?
Epidemiological implications of contaminated data - were deaths or injuries misattributed to drug OD’s?
1. Is drug use a risk factor for vaccine injuries?
This case report suggests a possibility that recreational drugs might adversely interact with the covid vaccines. Though the authors hypothesize that the myocarditis might be exclusively attributable to the marijuana, it is irrelevant. While their suppositions might have been honestly conceived, speculative claims in an evidentiary vacuum, even unchallenged by contraindicating data hardly constitute formidable evidence. Were expert opinion a viable standard to adjudicate safety concerns, the FDA could be retired in the face of the ubiquitous claims of implausibility for unexpected adverse effects to occur prophesized for every novel product introduced to the market. Regrettably, experts seldom recognize the limits of their expertise, and vis-à-vis covid seem unaware that any exist altogether (and in the case of the FDA ought be retired regardless for incorrigible moral corruption).
It must be noted that myocarditis has been associated with marijuana use before, such as the following examples:
The authors report an 11-month-old male who, following cannabis exposure, presented with central nervous system depression after seizure, and progressed to cardiac arrest and died. Myocarditis was diagnosed post-mortem and cannabis exposure was confirmed. Given the temporal relationship of these two rare occurrences - cannabis exposure and sudden death secondary to myocarditis in an 11-month-old - as well as histological consistency with drug-induced myocarditis without confirmed alternate causes, and prior reported cases of cannabis-associated myocarditis, a possible relationship exists between cannabis exposure in this child and myocarditis leading to death.
Myocarditis has also been associated with other recreational drugs besides marijuana, such as cocaine:
In a series of 40 autopsies with cocaine-associated deaths, Virmani et al. (1988) demonstrated that myocarditis with mononuclear infiltrate was nearly 10 times more common than acute thrombotic coronary occlusion. This case illustrates such presentation of acute cocaine-induced myocarditis with aggressive myocardial necrosis and unfavourable cardiac remodelling clearly demonstrated by serial CMR studies. In the absence of coronary artery disease, the CMR study should be considered in symptomatic patients following acute cocaine use and positive biomarkers to assess the extent of myocardial injury that could be prognostically important.
However, even granting that recreational drug use can by itself instigate myocarditis, common sense cautions that exposure to multiple myocarditis antagonists might compound the risk for subsequently developing myocarditis or increase the severity in patients who subsequently develop myocarditis. It is certainly plausible that there might be unique adverse pathological potential posed by the combination of recreational drugs and the mRNA vaccines.
Moreover, the risks are not limited to myocarditis. Various recreational drugs have been associated with other toxicities that might be triggered or aggrandized in the setting of concomitant exposure to a covid vaccine. We also don’t know what we don’t know, and there is probably a vast expanse of vaccine pathogenicity we have yet to explore.
Ultimately, absent more data it is difficult to draw firm conclusions from a solitary case report, but there is undeniably mechanistic plausibility for potential toxic drug interactions between recreational drugs and the genetic covid vaccines.
Which brings us to our next point:
2. Failure of The SCIENCE™️
When releasing a new medical product onto the market for public use, it is insufficient to only test it on physically fit people who live a healthy lifestyle or in sterile laboratory conditions. If you don’t study potential interactions of environmental effects of personal behavior on a novel drug, you won’t know if there are any, unless you boldly charge forth and release it anyways. As the chief editor of the NEJM put it during the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting to approve the covid vaccines for children, “we’re never going to learn about how safe this vaccine is unless we start giving it.” (Points for honesty at least.)
It is common knowledge that a substantial portion of the US population - especially younger people - are drug users, particularly of marijuana which has become a common and easily accessible amenity in society today. According to a Gallup poll in 2022, nearly half of all Americans have tried marijuana, and 16% are “smoke marijuana” - i.e. use marijuana with some degree of regularity:
Frequent marijuana use is notable concentrated in young adults (and presumably to a similar extent in teenagers who are not included in this survey):
Forgoing testing to discover potential toxic interactions of marijuana with the covid vaccines constitutes dereliction sufficiently egregious to disqualify everyone embroiled or responsible from any further involvement in trialing or interrogating medical product.
Some readers are probably thinking - or feeling exasperated - “they are far more evil, and did much worse deliberately, than merely failing to conduct proper science and regulatory oversight, so why are you .” The reason I am highlighting this is twofold:
There is still a not-insignificant group of people who are not exactly disposed to our side, but are susceptible to an argument that relies on one of their own self-professed premises, in our case that “they didn’t follow fundamental scientific protocols”.
As a moral concept, a murderer does not get a free pass for shoplifting a $20 trinket (legal system nonchalance notwithstanding). The failure to do proper science is a distinct crime apart from the active and deliberate evils inflicted by the establishment et al (and might well prove to be easier as a practical matter to hold them accountable for at some point).
3. Epidemiological implications of recreational drugs predisposing to vaccine injuries
The drug overdose crisis in America is one of the foremost political issues today. The number of deaths attributed to OD’s has skyrocketed over the past few years. But what if some % of the increase in ostensible OD deaths from 2021 onwards actually resulted from the lethal combination of covid vaccines and recreational drugs?
There is already some evidence to suggest that this might well be the case. One of the preeminent data geniuses of the covid era -
- has been suggesting for a while that over-attributing deaths to OD’s has helped to conceal the true scope of the increase in ‘unexpected’ or ‘sudden’ deaths (#3):
If recreational drugs could trigger or exacerbate vaccine injuries, then doctors would be expected to organically attribute the death to the drug use in cases where recent drug use was noted - most doctors wouldn't dream to conceive that there might be a universe where there was the faintest possibility of adverse drug - vaccine interaction, and would therefore chalk it up to OD without any malicious intent.
I asked Ethical Skeptic about this hypothesis and he agreed, noting that “doctors are sincerely attributing vaccine deaths to overdose - because they are ill equipped to detect the difference. Until we advocate for the CDC to change the diagnostic protocol - these deaths will be inflated.”
Another observation made by Ethical Skeptic was that the number of US deaths attributed to unspecified or unidentified drug OD - i.e. where the specific drug was not indicated meaning there is a lack of clarity about the role of drug use in the death - has been markedly elevated since around March of 2021 (2020 saw a noticeable spike coinciding with the advent of lockdowns that mostly receded prior to the resurgence in 2021). ES provided an annotated chart to illustrate along with the following explanation:
These excess deaths might represent what essentially amounts to people ‘dying with’ drug usage where the doctor filling out the death certificate figured something like “well it says here that he used recreational drugs, and now he’s dead [possibly killed by a condition that could be caused by drug use], so probably an OD”.
This is not limited to mortality data. It follows that the same misattribution of deaths to drug OD would occur in morbidity data as well - doctors are equally liable to misattribute a vaccine condition to drug OD for live patients as they are for dead patients.
Either way, it must be acknowledged that at minimum there is a potential hazard of contaminated drug OD data (in addition to the other myriad taints in the morbidity and mortality datasets).
Since so little is known about the potential for toxic interaction between recreational drugs like marijuana and the covid vaccines, we are left groping about in the dark until the necessary studies and data accumulate that can resolve this issue. In the meantime, the ramifications for people who are vaccinated, and clinicians treating patients with conditions presumptively attributed to either drug use or vaccines remain quite real.
Climate change will be morphed into "drugs" as this is a more plausible explanation.
interesting how the icd code for vaping as cause of death - which debuted 4/1/20 - appears right next to covid
U07.0 - vaping
U07.1 - covid, virus identified