Given how much soft power the US lost by defunding USAID and alienating its allies, he’s actually the weakest president in a long time.

The strongest president of the weakest USA. It’s not mutually exclusive, there are lots of all-powerful dictators in tiny countries.

Why link to a CNN article when there's a paper... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40227745/

It's a value add on top of the article because it summarizes the broad area of research, discusses the study, and interviews one of its authors.

Just linking the study is strictly less informative since TFA already links to it but adds a lot more context.

Note that correlation is not causation. The study does not show a causative relationship and the relationship could be explained by these folks self-medicating for a pre-existing undiagnosed underlying issue. It might be causative, or it might not - more research is needed.

> Yet research shows that regular users of marijuana are at risk for serious conditions, including strokes, heart attacks, cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure and myocarditis, which is an inflammation of the heart muscle.

I was under the impression that there was a relationship between cardiovascular disease and dementia too.

I expect that inhaling any kind of smoke is going to be contributing factor to those kinds of health problems.

Sure, but that's not the only way of consuming the drug.