MadSci Network: Medicine
Query:

Re: i would like to know if the use of marijuana affects the sperm count.

Date: Sat Mar 3 09:59:05 2001
Posted By: Thiam Hock, Tan, Secondary School Teacher, Science, Dunman High School
Area of science: Medicine
ID: 982070271.Me
Message:

Dear John:

I hope you're not going to experiment with marijuana.... because you're in for some bad news (considering that you're a male). A study conducted by Lani Burkman and Alex Makriyannis at the University at Buffalo showed that one's sperm count can be adversely affected by marijuana smoking due to an excessive influx of cannabinoids (hormones found in cannibis... i.e. marijuana) overloading the body's system. More information can be found at the following pages:

Marijuana may affect fertility, study shows
U.S. STUDY SHOWS MARIJUANA CAN AFFECT FERTILITY

The homepage of the researcher who carried out the project can be found here.

Hope this helps, and don't fool about with drugs! Keep up that curiousity of yours!

Thiam Hock "Stoned" Tan


Current Queue | Current Queue for Medicine | Medicine archives

Try the links in the MadSci Library for more information on Medicine.



MadSci Home | Information | Search | Random Knowledge Generator | MadSci Archives | Mad Library | MAD Labs | MAD FAQs | Ask a ? | Join Us! | Help Support MadSci


MadSci Network, webadmin@www.madsci.org
© 1995-2001. All rights reserved.