Marijuana and T-Levels

[seizer]

Hey guys, I was just curious about this. I have been reading up on this and am becoming increasingly worried about this. For anyone who does know, do my t-levels only decrease if i am a pot smoker all the time or if i do it on occasion or both. Are the decreases in t-level significant. Any and all info would be great.

 

[Tom Treutlein]

Marajuana lowers test levels - period.

 

[Dieharder]

excessive marijuana use lowers test levels, occasional toking is going to do minimum damage to t levels

 

[gregory]

MJ does not Lower test. It's unsubstantiated mumbo jumo perpetuated by the anti MJ lobbies. Next think you guys will be saying is that it can give you gyno, is physiologically addictive, that it will make you crazy blah blah blah. Nothing could be further from the truth.

What does happen to some, and it's been proven by MJ supporters is that it can cause something called the "amotivational syndrome". That happens usually with daily smokers. You go into a pernmanent state of lethargy (until you quit), this can be accompanied by lower test levels, just like it would be if you were chronically tired. This is easily preventable by not abusing it. Abuse anything and it's positives quickly become negative. Alcohol in small quantities can bump test levels, drink too much and they drop like a brick.

 

[JKurz1]

This gets beat up more than a red-headed stepchild......both sides argue.........AND After reading both theories, I firmly believe it DOES supress Test levels............I'm not a scientisits, just from my general readings...........

 

[~SC~]

This gets beat up more than a red-headed stepchild

ROFLMFAO!!!!!

Good one brutha!

~SC~

 

[gregory]

OK, fine it supresses test leves.

 

[gregory]

[Serum testosterone concentrations in cannabis and opiate users]

[Article in German]

Friedrich G, Nepita W, Andre T.

Institut fur Rechtsmedizin, Universitat Freiburg.

The object of this study was to establish possible influences of long-term cannabis usage on plasma testosterone levels. The plasma testosterone levels of 66 male Pakistani who for years had smoked cannabis daily or drank cannabis regularly where measured after chronic and acute intake of the drug and compared with a material of 41 normal controls, i.e. persons who did not use cannabis. An evaluation of the results showed that there were no significant differences between the two groups. No influence of long-term cannabis usage on plasma testosterone levels was found. Furthermore we wished to find out wether long-term heroin abuse showed an effect on plasma testosterone levels. The concentrations of testosterone in the plasma of 102 heroin addicts assigned to a Methadone Program were measured and compared with the values of 29 male healthy students as controls. Plasma testosterone levels were found to be significantly decreased in heroin addicts as compared to controls.

PMID: 2241844 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

[JKurz1]

yup....I've read that...and I've read...........http://health.rutgers.edu/brochures/marijuana.htm



like I said, there are 2 sides.......

 

[gregory]

And the funny thign about all this is that i can dig up studies that show the opposite. But if you study the study you will see the ones showing negative influences on Test are all done on either mice and some other animals and usually done in countries that have a very ANTI cannabis lobby. The legalization of this substance would make a lot of chemicall (dupont) and pharmaceutical corporations loose close to 20-40% of all their patents, LOL! It will never be legalised. We can have a million studies showing it's benefits to sick people, but the powers that be will focus on some bullshit and deem it unsafe. It's a scam. Look at the FDA's track record with the pharm industry, how many drugs did the deem "safe" and were later pulled off the market with people dieing, remeber phen phen? What happened there? There are hundreds of others. No one ever in history died from MJ, ever. Not a single documented case worldwide, with billions of people partaking in it worldwide. I find the illegalization of a naturally growing plant to be stupid. A plant growns and you are forbidden to touch it and use it as it come from the ground by law, odd.

But as a law abiding citizen i don't want any problems. So i stay away.