Eli5 how does marijuana use effect anesthesia?

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Like I know you’re not supposed to smoke before surgery and always tell your dr when you last smoked but how does it effect the anesthesia?

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It moreso affects opiate users. For some reason, systems conditioned to high doses of heroin/fentanyl/etc don’t do as well on normal doses of whatever they juice you with to put you to sleep. I assume it’s a similar chemical and it misbehaves with people’s tolerance.

The weed thing is more done as a precaution than anything else.

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