(New Scientist) Stoners may be trading sexual highs for the chemical kind. Males who smoke marijuana daily are four times more likely to have trouble reaching orgasm than men who don’t inhale, finds a new study of 8,656 Aussies.

Other smokers had the opposite problem, experiencing premature ejaculation at nearly three times the rate of non-smokers, find a team led by Marian Pitts at La Trobe University in Melbourne.

Now there’s a new reefer madness scare for you!  Smoke too much pot and you’ll either orgasm too quickly or not at all!  Sounds to me like more research needs to be done in this area to determine exactly how much pot a man needs to smoke and how often in order to orgasm at precisely the right time.  Bring me the Deal or No Deal models, a pound of White Russian sinsemilla, and a notebook and let’s get to the science!

Somebody in the photo department found the perfect picture for this story. (Image: Lindsey T/ theogeo)

Even though many male smokers experienced sexual problems, they reported more partners than non-smokers. Marijuana users were twice as likely to have had two or more sex partners in the previous year than men who didn’t smoke pot.

So, then, smoking pot is going to help you attract the ladies, but once you get them to have sex with you, you’re going to have troubles in the bedroom.  How does that work?  Wouldn’t the ladies eventually make the connection that most of their pothead lovers are lousy in bed?

Pitts’ team found an even stronger trend for increased sexual activity among female smokers, who were also seven times more likely to have been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection in the last year than non-smokers. However, female smokers had no more problems in the bedroom than abstainers, Pitts’ team found.

And if you do get one of those pot-smoking ladies to jump in bed with you, you’re going to get a disease.

[A] 2007 study led by Marie Eloi-Stiven at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York found that marijuana users were far more likely than others to take sildenafil (Viagra) recreationally. This is presumably to counteract the perceived libido-sapping effects of marijuana, her team concluded.

Or, presumably, because men who enjoy enhancing the big head with pot might also like to enhance the little head with Viagra.

Once again, it seems like more reefer madness propaganda to scare men into thinking that smoking marijuana will ruin their sex lives.  It used to be that marijuana was going to affect fertility, damage chromosomes, and unravel your DNA.  Dr. Mitch Earleywine and I will discuss this in Cannabis Science tomorrow.

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“You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.”

Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963

Today our nation honors what would’ve been this week the eightieth birthday of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., on the eve of the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th president of these United States.  I was sixty-four days old when an assassin’s bullet cut down Dr. King in the prime of his life.  Today I am six-hundred forty days older than Dr. King when he was killed.  Tomorrow I will see something few people my age and older thought we’d ever see, yet something Dr. King had dreamed from the start.

There remains a grave injustice to be battled, the most unjust of laws to be disobeyed, a law that by its definition is not rooted in eternal law and natural law: the man made code that declares nature itself to be illegal, the prohibition on cannabis.  Yet when I mention marijuana law reform in the context of the great civil rights struggles in America, so many are quick to dismiss me with snickers of derision.  ”You just want pot legal so you can get high!” is a common refrain.

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Black girls using marijuana prone to riskier sex, higher STD rate – news.smashits.com
Washington, Aug 6 (ANI): Black girls who use marijuana are more likely to get involved in risky sexual acts and contract sexually transmitted diseases, reveals a new study.

Conducted by Emory University public health researchers, the study analysed the marijuana use and self-reported sexual behaviour of 439 sexually active black females in the age group of 15-21 years.

It was discovered that black girls who used marijuana had significantly higher rates of incident STDs than non-marijuana users (32 percent compared to 23 percent).

In fact, the researchers found that those who used marijuana, also had more sex partners, riskier sex partners, including a partner just released from jail, and more recent episodes of engaging in vaginal sex while their partner was under the influence.

Although no differences in condom use were identified between marijuana users and non-users, results suggest that marijuana users are engaging in sexual acts with riskier partners and under riskier circumstances, and had higher rates of STDs.

The researchers advised STD and HIV intervention programs designed for adolescent black females that not only promote condom use, but also emphasize the risks of drug use and STD and HIV infection.

The study was presented at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.

Well, once again, we see a report where the lede is based on the idea that using marijuana will cause something bad to happen.  What we may be seeing here is correlation showing that people who like to do risky things may also accept the risk of using a substance that can get you locked up in prison.  For example, the part about “partner just released from jail” could very well be a boyfriend released on marijuana charges.  “[P]artner was under the influence” could very well be a boyfriend who smoked a joint.

Overall, you can’t separate the marijuana use from its prohibition, and its prohibition is more likely the reason behind the different rates in this study.  Using marijuana requires interaction with a criminal underground which by definition is a risky behavior.

Once cannabis is re-legalized, run this study again.  Then we’ll have something to talk about.  In the meantime, find me some STD figures on black girls and alcohol consumption and use that to argue for a return to alcohol prohibition.

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For tomorrow’s Stash it’s Valentine’s Day and I’m going to be examining the effects of marijuana on sex and love. What I’d like to know from the listeners out there is what your experience with marijuana has taught you…

…does marijuana act as an aphrodisiac for you, or does it depress your libido?

…is this effect different for men vs. women?

…does the effect change after long-term, heavier usage of marijuana?

…have you ever had a romantic partner who didn’t use marijuana, and if so, did that cause any rift in the relationship?

Send me your comments at stash ‘at’ norml.org and I’ll read the best ones on the podcast (with your initials or nickname only to protect your identity.)

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