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Marijuana Might Contribute to Male Sexual Dysfunction (Sorry to Harsh Your Little Mr. Mellow)

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Simon Willison
Harder, faster, stronger than weed, apparently.
Yeah, we know: Weed makes you get a freaky deaky and you do it like a porn star after you've partaken of a bowl full of nature's finest.

You were a superstar on Valentine's night. Now here's the hangover:

Maybe the best thing marijuana does as an aphrodisiac is make you hallucinate so that you actually believe that you're getting down like Warren Beatty (when maybe you're not).

So before you toke and stroke, consider ...

... cannabis actually gives men that sinking feeling, if you know what we mean. In other words, pot can be the anti-Viagra.

Which means that either some of you should quit inhaling or go ahead and see your doctor about erectile dysfunction.

A 2010 study echoed in a recent analysis by physician Rany Shamloul of the University of Ottawa found that "THC has an inhibitory effect on the muscle," according to LiveScience.

Shamloul says more research is needed but that the evidence so far sends "a strong message to our younger generations and younger men" that weed could have long-term effects on their, er, boners.

So, in conclusion, young dudes: Weed bad (even though it's medicine here in California). Viagra good.

Now get to work.

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Generic Viagra

Long-term marijuana use suppresses the production of hormones that help regulate the reproductive system. For men, this can cause decreased sperm counts and very heavy users can experience erectile dysfunction. Women may experience irregular periods from heavy marijuana use. These problems would most likely result in a decreased ability to conceive but not lead to complete infertility.

Gus
Gus

Posted by a non smoker

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harder erections

Greater use of marijuana than intended,Marijuana taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended.

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Generic Viagra

This is dead right. Marijuana might lead to Erectile Dysfunction and this has been confirmed by many medical experts over a period of time. So stay away folks.

Forest
Forest

Bullshit......smoking for 45 years and still hard as a rock......

Elipashby
Elipashby

This may just be a study of one, but I smoke weed, my girlfriend does not. I desided to burn one before we got to it and from that day on she asks if I wanna smoke a little. We already have a great sex life but that little plant takes it to the next level. Not only in size and girth but in stamina. Not to mention it heightens my creativity and focus. Viagra ain't got nuthin on it.

Big Mike
Big Mike

So if scientist say that 0 people have died each year from simply smoking weed alone. Would you publish that as a blog? Cause in the history of mankind there has not been a single report of someone O.Ding from this natural plant. As for man made substances like alcohol kills 75-80 thousand people each year. Its also hard to say that weed causes cancer when most pot heads also smoke cigs. Alcohol and cigs are legal but they kill more than a plant that hasn't even killed one person throughout its entire existence. You should write a blog about that.

Dennis Romero
Dennis Romero

Big:

If there was a big study about the benefits of marijuana and its safety, particularly if there were fresh revelations, sure. Let me know: dennisjromero@gmail.com.

-Dennis

forest sprague
forest sprague

Dennis, Are you kidding or are you so new to this subject that you are truly clueless. The benefits of cannabis is well documented and by the way mostly ignored by the authorities for many years. This battle has already been fought and won and evidence is medical marijuana which we fought for and won at the ballot box. You probably don´t know that marijuana enhances radically the effectiveness of interferon in the treatment of hepatitus C. A little story for you. I had a liver transplant 11 years ago because of hep C. After the transplant I was on interferon for one year and a half without no movement in my viral load. After almost giving up the treatment because the effects of interferon was so devastating that I no longer wanted to live. My liver transplant care coordinator suggested I smoke some pot to help coping with the interferon. Long story short. One hour after smoking my apetite came back after being gone for a year and a half and the next week my viral load dropped by millions to hundred thousands. The week after that the hep C was undetected in my system. 11 years later still undetected. I consider myself cured. Since then I have read about people curing cancer and tumors with oil from cannabis. So if you are not up on what going on its because you have not bothered to look.

Big Mike
Big Mike

Well seeing is how we do have benefits for marijuana for example did you know that the THC found in weed stops the deposits left by Alzheimer? Did you also know that Queen Victoria smoked it for what we know now today as PMS. Lets not forget the sad story of the woman that was prescribed painkillers by a doctor and she lost her liver and kidneys now she must rely on weed for the doctors mistakes. Scientists have been trying to find all the benefits of this plant but when it was made illegal the studies have been left ignored.

Dennis Romero
Dennis Romero

When there's a fresh study out on any of this let me know. I'll keep an eye out.

Not opposed to any of this at all. But it's got to be new.

-Dennis

Paul Medley
Paul Medley

what's even funnier... my friend sent me this article asking "is this a joke?"

before i even opened it, i already knew who wrote it.

Dennis Romero
Dennis Romero

Paul:

Stop blaming the messenger. I'm just repeating what a scientist says. If you don't believe, that's your business. Do what you need to do to stay up.

-Dennis

Jimmy James
Jimmy James

You are the writer for a blog The Informer of the LA Weekly. It's a blog, I assume, about the going-ons in Los Angeles. Crime, politics, culture, events, that stuff. At the top of each post are pictures of the city. This blog post has nothing to do with Los Angeles besides filing another anti-Medical Marijuana post. It's an article from a science website. So at least be honest with your opinion-driven journalism instead of this I'm Just The Messenger nonsense.

Paul Medley
Paul Medley

Hmmm...

Weed, grows naturally on this planet.

Viagra is created in a lab by scientists.

2 + 2 does not equal 4 in Dennis' world.

Doughjah
Doughjah

what a crock of shit. just because it has an inhibitory effect on the muscle doesnt mean it causes dysfunction. Ask Bob Marley's kids, all 10 of em. stop posting stupid shit

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