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Does smoking marijuana inhibit healing of tissue in the wrist after surgery?
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Not to my knowledge : Vitamin C encourages collagen cross-linking. So feel free to take more citrus when your healing from surgery. I have no knowledge of marihuana having an effect on wound healing.
Answered 6/4/2017
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