What Marijuana May Do to Sperm
According to science, you may want to lay off the weed if you’re trying to conceive.
Smoking pot could damage your semen quality, or so suggests a new study out of Denmark. Some 1,215 Danish men ages 18 to 28 were asked about their drug use over the past three months and provided a semen sample. The researchers found a correlation between men who smoked pot more than once weekly and “quite a lot” of a drop in sperm count: the count was an average 29 percent lower in these men than in those who reported lighter or no usage.
Those who reported additional drug use (anything from cocaine to ecstasy) saw an even more severe reduction, with average sperm count down 55 percent.
“Our findings are of public interest as marijuana use is common” — indeed, 45 percent of participants had smoked in the last 3 months — “and...
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