Here's What Marijuana Does to Your Weight
The benefits of legalizing medical marijuana are many—but few would expect that reducing the probability of obesity would be one of them.
Researchers at San Diego State University and Cornell University found that states that legalize pot experience a "two percent to six percent decline in the probability of obesity." The counterintuitive study was recently published in the journal Health Economics.
After looking at more than 20 years of data from the federal Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (including over five million individual survey responses), the researchers determined that "there may be some important physical health benefits associated with medical marijuana laws," the study's lead author, Dr. Joseph Sabia, told ATTN:.
"For younger individuals, we find some evidence that MMLs (medical marijuana laws) may induce substitution away from alcohol and toward a lower-caloric buzz, resulting in lower body weight," Sabia added. "For older individuals,...
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