Massive Harvard Study Contradicts Anti-Pot Propaganda Told to Us for Decades

by | Feb 8, 2019

Massive Harvard Study Contradicts Anti-Pot Propaganda Told to Us for Decades

by | Feb 8, 2019

For decades anti-marijuana and even pro-marijuana advocates have repeated a narrative about the potentially negative effects associated with smoking marijuana and the male sperm count. Smoking weed, we were told, decreases your ability to produce sperm. However, an extensive study published by none other than Harvard researchers this week, reveals quite the opposite may be happening.

The study, titled: Marijuana smoking and markers of testicular function among men from a fertility centre, was published on Wednesday in the journal Human Reproduction. The study posed the question of “Is marijuana smoking associated with semen quality, sperm DNA integrity or serum concentrations of reproductive hormones among subfertile men?”

The answer was surprising as it directly contradicted their expected result based on previously held beliefs and found that marijuana use did indeed appear to have a positive effect on sperm count.

“Our findings were contrary to what we initially hypothesized,” said Feiby Nassan, Ph.D., the study’s lead author and research fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Read the rest at thefreethoughtproject.com.

Matt Agorist

Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now on Minds.

View all posts

Our Books

Shop books published by the Libertarian Institute.

Podcasts

scotthortonshow logosq

coi banner sq2@0.5x

liberty weekly thumbnail

Don't Tread on Anyone Logo

313x0w (1)

313x0w (1)

313x0w (1)

Our Books

Recent Articles

Recent

Charlie Kirk and ‘Cancel Culture’

Charlie Kirk and ‘Cancel Culture’

The right is calling for revenge in the form of firing every leftist who talked out of turn over Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week. This mentality does threaten to tear the country apart. Already, there are firefighters, publicists, teachers, and a whole host of...

read more
‘We Are All Charlie Kirk’

‘We Are All Charlie Kirk’

In 2015, the French comedy magazine Charlie Hebdo was attacked by terrorists and twelve people were murdered. It was the second of three violent attacks on the magazine because they had dared to published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, an insult to followers of...

read more

Pin It on Pinterest

Share This