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Natural use of marijuana reduces intestinal parasite rate

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 06/18/2015 - 21:59

Hunter-gathers who take marijuana have a lower rate of infection by parasitic intestinal worms. This has been noted in the Aka people.

The finding has come from scientists based at Washington State University. Data indicates that the more often the hunter-gatherers smoke marijuana, then the less they are infected by intestinal worms. The Aka people are not taking the psychoactive substance for this purpose; the effect is an unintended consequence.

The Aka people are a Mbenga pygmy people, located in southwestern Central African Republic and the Brazzaville region of the Republic of the Congo. The people are nomads and they have a very varied diet, including over sixty plants, various species of game and many insects.

Part of the research was to see if people have traditionally orientated towards the cannabis plant because some component within it helps to keep people healthy, in relation to different regions of the...

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