Study: Marijuana Use May Damage Sperm Quality

June 10, 2014

The research team, led by Allan Pacey, MD, a senior lecturer in andrology at the University of Sheffield in England, recruited more than 2,000 men from 14 fertility clinics in England and gave them detailed questionnaires about their medical histories and lifestyle habits. When cross-analyzing the sperm samples with the information on the forms, researchers found that men with abnormal sperm samples were twice as…

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