{"id":2982,"date":"2021-09-02T15:29:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T05:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/weed-very-unhelpful-with-covid-19-study-genetic-liability-to-cannabis-use-disorder-and-covid-19-hospitalization\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:02:06","slug":"weed-very-unhelpful-with-covid-19-study-genetic-liability-to-cannabis-use-disorder-and-covid-19-hospitalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/weed-very-unhelpful-with-covid-19-study-genetic-liability-to-cannabis-use-disorder-and-covid-19-hospitalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Weed Very Unhelpful with Covid-19 \u2013 Study: Genetic Liability to Cannabis Use Disorder and COVID-19 Hospitalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background: <\/strong>Vulnerability to COVID-19 hospitalization has been linked to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/medicine-and-dentistry\/behavioral-risk-factor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">behavioral risk factors<\/a>, including combustible psychoactive substance use (e.g., tobacco smoking). Paralleling the COVID-19 pandemic crisis have been increasingly permissive laws for recreational&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/medicine-and-dentistry\/cannabis-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cannabis use<\/a>. Cannabis use disorder (CUD) is a psychiatric disorder that is heritable and genetically correlated with respiratory disease, independent of tobacco smoking. We examined the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/medicine-and-dentistry\/molecular-phylogeny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">genetic relationship<\/a>&nbsp;between CUD and COVID-19 hospitalization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusions: <\/strong>Problematic cannabis use and vulnerability to serious COVID-19 complications share genetic underpinnings that are unique from common correlates. While CUD may plausibly contribute to severe COVID-19 presentations, causal inference models yielded no evidence of putative causation. Curbing excessive cannabis use may mitigate the impact of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2667174321000513?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"button\">For complete research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background: Vulnerability to COVID-19 hospitalization has been linked to&nbsp;behavioral risk factors, including combustible psychoactive substance use (e.g., tobacco smoking). Paralleling the COVID-19 pandemic crisis have been increasingly permissive laws for recreational&nbsp;cannabis use. Cannabis use disorder (CUD) is a psychiatric disorder that is heritable and genetically correlated with respiratory disease, independent of tobacco smoking. 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