Who knew? Smoking pot doesn’t just make sex more interesting; it can make it more productive. Make that reproductive. Researchers at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health have found that men who have smoked marijuana at some point in their life had significantly higher concentrations of sperm when compared […]
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Marijuana Relieves Pain, More Research Is Wanted
No. It’s not surprising to learn that marijuana relieves pain, but it’s helpful for some people to know exactly how much cannabidiol (CBD), a marijuana plant extract, is needed to kill pain without getting anyone high. That’s what researchers at McGill University have figured out. First, from a McGill University news […]
Marijuana Ages Brain More Than Alcohol
No, pot is not safer than alcohol, at least when it comes to your brain. That’s the verdict of a study by researchers from Amen Clinics (Costa Mesa, CA), Google, John’s Hopkins University, University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Francisco, who evaluated 62,454 brain SPECT […]
Gut Trouble? Try Marijuana, or Hot Peppers
Strange but true: both marijuana and chili peppers, not combined, appear to have a calming effect on our stomachs. A University of Connecticut news release reports that researchers at the school have found that both ingredients interact with the same receptors in our gastrointestinal tract. The researchers discovered that capsaicin, the […]