from toking? This is the only thing my father is paranoid about. It's the reason he's always on my case about weed. He just doesn't want his grandkids to come out irregular, and that's understandable. ('course, he might be dead by the time I have kids. He's like 54 or 55.) I've never heard of this accusation before, and I'd like to see some mythbustin' scientific documentation that proves it wrong. Since I've never heard of it, I presume it to be BS, but if I can dig up recent studies I can shut him up for good. So, can you help? Share the knowledge.
source: http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/factsmyths/ MYTH: MARIJUANA INTERFERES WITH MALE AND FEMALE SEX HORMONES. In both men and women, marijuana can cause infertility. Marijuana retards sexual development in adolescents. It produces feminine characteristics in males and masculine characteristics in females. FACT: There is no evidence that marijuana causes infertility in men or women. In animal studies, high doses of THC diminish the production of some sex hormones and can impair reproduction. However, most studies of humans have found that marijuana has no impact of sex hormones. In those studies showing an impact, it is modest, temporary, and of no apparent consequence for reproduction. There is no scientific evidence that marijuana delays adolescent sexual development, has feminizing effect on males, or a masculinizing effect on females.
http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_myth6.shtml I know that there has been one study that showed that smoking marijuana basically makes your sperm retarded. They don't swim right or something which makes it harder to get a girl pregnant, but if I remember correctly it said that once you stop smoking sperm production goes back to normal. It was on CNN a year or two ago, I can't find it, so I'd search around cnn.com and news.bbc.co.uk
THATS GOOD!! =) except when you are actually trying to get a girl pregnant then all you have to do is stop for a little while
It's the issue of chromosome damage in particular, not sperm count or hormones, that I'm interested in. I'll still use the provided info, though. Thanks. Anything better than that?
marijuana is not birth control... don't fall for that one. it doesn't damage chromosomes. with chronic use, marijuana can lower testosterone in men and follicle-stimulating hormone and leutinizing hormone in women. however, neither of these effects have ever resulted in infertility that i am aware of.
