DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2020.v08i03.023

Pages: 342-345

The vascular complications of cannabis consumption are still widely discussed and their incidence seems to be weak relative to the frequency of cannabis exposure in the global population. The main argument is a close temporal relationship between exposure and vascular complication, as well as the usual exclusion of other etiologies. There is also a significant rate of recidivism with re-exposure. However, this association does not proof any causal link between both conditions. Concerning peripheral arterial injuries, cannabis-associated arteriopathies show several epidemiological, clinical and radiological features closes to Buerger's syndrome or obliterative thromboangitis (OAT). The onset of this condition necessarily requires the consumption of cannabis. The observation of a 26 year old youth working in the production of the cannabis plant but which is not a consumer, who presents a proximal arteritis of both lower limb is reported in this article.