Does smoking pot cause 'man boobs'?

[onehandle]

As legalized medical marijuana gains acceptance across the country, a long-smoldering question burns a little hotter.

In the vernacular, stoners ask, "Do doobies make boobies?" Plastic surgeons phrase it more scientifically. "Does marijuana cause gynecomastia?"

Speculation that men who smoke pot are prone to develop abnormal breast tissue or "man boobs" has been around for decades. The first scientific paper examining the clinical impact of the drug's active ingredient, THC, on hormonal systems was published in 1972 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

This was about the same time Brewer & Shipley stoked Spiro Agnew's ire with the hit single "One Toke Over the Line." The drug's ability to stoke controversy has not abated. The 1972 study found that the drug has "widespread effects on multiple hormonal systems, including gonadal, adrenal, prolactin, growth hormone, and thyroid hormone regulation." When the drug throws off the normal balance of hormones, estrogen levels rise and stimulate breast tissue growth.

http://www.philly.com/philly/health/menshealth/20131124_Male_breast_growth_and_pot.html

[spanone]

1. bwahahahahahaaa

i'd be a 44D by now...

[Galileo126]

2. ROFL

[spanone]

28. oh piss off.

[msanthrope]

36. Supporting you....

[spanone]

39. the manssiere.....or the bro..... now i need that support!

[msanthrope]

49. All answers to the universe come from Larry David. nt

[Coyotl]

3. If it did, there would be a huge market for manziers.

Albeit, large amounts of weed does mess with thyroid levels.

[Itchinjim]

4. Well, in my case it was beer and HFCS.

[bmbmd]

5. and galactorhea.

I've seen that half a dozen times in thirty years.

[MindPilot]

6. Ummm...no.

The pro-prohibitionists will cling to any bullshit to maintain their for-profit law enforcement model.

[RandiFan1290]

7. Marijuana smokers are thinner, less likely to be obese than non-smokers, according to new study

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/marijuana-smokers-thinner-obese-non-smokers-new-study-article-1.951671

Stoners may spend a lot of time on the couch and craving White Castle, but they apparently don't let their bodies go to pot.

People who smoke marijuana regularly are less likely to be obese than non-pot smokers, according to a new study by French researches.

"We found that cannabis users are less likely to be obese than non-users," Dr. Yann Le Strat, French psychiatrist and co-author of a new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology told MSNBC. "We were so surprised, we thought we had [made] a mistake.”

Using data from two epidemiologic studies of U.S. adults, researchers found that between 22% to 25% of participants who didn’t smoke pot were obese.
But only between 14% and 17% of those people who admitted to taking a toke at least three times a week were overweight.

[HockeyMom]

9. Apart from the DRUGS mentality,

I also think the opposition comes also from the fact that SMOKING kills! Cannot have people smoking anything; cigs, pot, or even e-cigs. However, doctors giving scripts for Oxyconde (medicine???) like candy is just fine and dandy because the pharms are making $$$$ from that.

I wonder if eating (hash) it in brownies would work too? Old enough to remember those days. lol Oh, nevermind. Brownies will make you FAT. lol

[RandiFan1290]

10. Smoking is the old way

People are eating the extracted hash oils and vaping them. Smoking is really going out of style Plus, you get more medicinal effects from eating the hash oils instead of burning them.

[seveneyes]

44. It's the paranoia of body image

That keeps them slim.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. It's not the smoke ...

... it's the munchies.

[Jamaal510]

48. +1

[TheSarcastinator]

11. Apparently few people know this research has been completely discredited

from Jack Herer's "Emperor":

Nahas is still the darling favorite of the DEA and NIDA (National Institute of Drug Abuse) yet no anti-marijuana studies of Nahas’ have ever been replicated in countless other research attempts. Columbia University specifically disassociated itself from Nahas’ marijuana research in a specially-called press conference in 1975!

Old, discredited Nahas studies are still trotted out by the Drug Enforcement Administration today, and deliberately given to unknowledgeable parents’ groups, churches, and PTAs as valid research regarding the evils of pot.

The dissemination of Nahas’* dangerous horror stories is paid for with your tax dollar, even years after the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1976 specifically forbade Nahas from getting another penny of U.S. government money for cannabis studies because of his embarrassing research in the early 1970s.

*Nahas, in December 1983, under ridicule from his peers and a funding cut-off from NIDA renounced all his old THC metabolite build-up and unique chromosome petri dish tissue damage studies, conclusions, and extrapolations.

Yet the DEA, NIDA, VISTA, the “War on Drugs”, and now-deceased writer Peggy Mann (in Reader’s Digest articles and her book Marijuana Alert, with foreward by Nancy Reagan) have used these discredited studies on parents’ groups such as Parents for a Drug Free Youth, etc., often with Nahas as a highly paid guest lecturer, without a word of how his studies are really considered by his peers.

[Chan790]

54. VISTA? Isn't that AmeriCorps?

When I was in AmeriCorps all we ever did was get high...it's not like there's a lot for a bunch of lefty college-aged kids to do on a $9K salary.

[Marr]

12. No, but cookies do.

And marijuana is a gateway drug to... cookies.

[NutmegYankee]

21. Gynecomastia isn't from fat.

Those with the disorder actually develop breast tissue and have a risk of cancer.

[Phlem]

52. and Murdering

cakes!



-p

[Warren Stupidity]

13. As legalization spreads, the Drug Warriors grow desperate.

[wildbilln864]

14. hasn't yet

and it's been fourty years so doubt it will!

[LuvNewcastle]

15. Beside the OP is an advertisement for a breast-reduction procedure (or drug)

for men. It has before and after photos of a man's chest who had it done. I think the before picture actually looks better. In the after picture, the nipples look weird, like wide-open eyes.

[ScreamingMeemie]

32. ...

"wide-open eyes..." I don't know why I found that so funny, but I did. Thanks!

[Upton]

16. No..or I would have 'em..

as is, I have trouble keeping weight on. Is it my imagination, I could be thinking of someone else, or do you seem to have developed a habit of starting anti weed threads?

[liberal_at_heart]

17. that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. I have never heard of this and don't know any

marijuana smokers who have experienced this.

[The Midway Rebel]

18. No. And its a good thing too. If men had boobs they would stay at home and play with them all day.

And I'd be a 40DD by now.

[Quantess]

19. One toke over the bustline?

[TheSarcastinator]

20. What the NEJOM called the "science" involved in this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/health/dr-gabriel-nahas-researcher-who-waged-a-campaign-against-marijuana-dies-at-92.html?_r=0

"The New England Journal of Medicine once described his work as “psychopharmacological McCarthyism that compels him to use half-truths, innuendo and unverifiable assertions.” (...) "In 1972, he published his first book about the dangers of the drug, “Marihuana: Deceptive Weed.” In 1974, he announced that he had discovered a link between the drug and the body’s immune system. “The findings represent the first direct evidence of cellular damage from marijuana in man,” he said in a statement.

But scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studied the chromosomes of volunteers who smoked marijuana, found no deficiency in immune responses and no chromosome abnormalities, which Dr. Nahas had also predicted. Nevertheless, Dr. Nahas suggested that the results prompt reconsideration of a recent government report that marijuana’s dangers were less than those of alcohol."

[Mopar151]

41. Calling Dr. Nahas a "quack"

Is an insult to waterfowl. Playboy mag had the goober's number back in the '70's - IIRC, his studies showing brain cell damage from weed study protocol included puree' of said brain cells in a blender! But, at the time, the NIH would only pay for negative studies on pot - I suppose you could say his bias was market-driven. And you know the best liars beleive every word of it themselves......

[maxrandb]

22. Side Benefit

I for one would enjoy having a nice pair of "boobies" around to play with.

[ConcernedCanuk]

23. Nope -

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but it increases my desire to see woman boobs.



CC

[solarhydrocan]

24. Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr ought to know

otherwise known as Snoop Dogg

[Chan790]

55. ahem...Snoop LION now.

He's moved on to the good good of reggae and is searching for personal positivity.

I'm wondering when he goes on tour if he still performs hip-hop or if he pulls a Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) and refuses to perform his previous "ungodly" music?

[Cal33]

25. I don't know about "man boobs," but I have heard of pot-smoking causing a lowered sperm-count.

For those with a borderline low sperm-count, it could cause infertility. Stopping
smoking would usually bring back their sperm-count to their former level.

[madokie]

27. If that was true I'd be a DD

trust me when I say I'm not

[Eleanors38]

42. I'm a WD-40: Everything loosened up.

[madokie]

47. LOL

Good 'n

[ChisolmTrailDem]

29. Nope.

And I say that with some authoritative knowledge.

[valerief]

30. Does BPA cause man boobs?

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/health/study-man-boobs-may-be-caused-by-exposure-to-common-dangerous-bpa-chemical

[Deep13]

31. Well, it causes munchies, which leads to man-boobs. nt

[In_The_Wind]

33. Smoking doobies will not make boobies.

None of the men I know have moobs. [img][/img]

[Go Vols]

34. lol

[In_The_Wind]

35. That's over 45 years of observations up close and personal.

With more than one smoker.

[jessie04]

37. how to rate manboobs

[Turbineguy]

38. Quite possibly

unless it's the beer that goes so well with a joint.

At least, that's what I read on the internets...

[etherealtruth]

50. I don't know about the canabis ... but if I recall correctly

Liver disease (cirrhosis) does cause he-hooters.

[Mopar151]

45. I'm not big on "Muffin Tops", myself

Or the "2nd butt" effect from stuffing into pants too tight.

[Snotcicles]

43. You just gave the cops a two-fer excuse to frisk. nt

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

46. I'm sure Kevin Smith will comment. nt

[Ian David]

51. I wouldn't mind having boobs, but I'd rather grow a second penis. n/t

[valerief]

53. I think you need to use that underarm testosterone for the second putz. nt

[Ian David]

57. I suppose if I grew a penis in my armpit, that could be fun, but it won't help my tennis game. n/t

[Vincardog]

56. No in my case it was all the Cheetos and fudge brownies that did,,,… Huh what was I saying?

[TheKentuckian]

58. Seriously?

C'mon man!

[HappyMe]

59. Good grief!

No. No, it doesn't.

[Boom Sound 416]

60. It causes Doritos

Doritos cause man boobs