Cannabis, or marijuana users often assume that illegal goods are used to increase sexual desire or arousal. But recent research on sexual health showed that marijuana can make men impotent erectile dysfunction alias.
"Recent research, including findings that the penis contains receptors for the active ingredient of marijuana, can make young people may think back to the effects of long-term use of marijuana," said Rany Shamloul, doctors from the University of Ottawa and Queen's University in Canada, as reported by LiveScience, Friday ( 02/18/2011).
According Shamloul, this finding is a strong message to young people, particularly young males.
The scientists first learned about the connection tahin marijuana and sex since the 1970s. Some researchers have found that cannabis appears to have medicinal effects of love.
In a 1982 study published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 75 percent of marijuana smokers said that the illegal goods in the short term to improve sex life.
Yet another study published in the same journal in the same year found that erectile dysfunction is twice as common in cannabis users. This effect is clearly more dangerous than short-term effects obtained.
Other studies also showed that cannabis doses small amounts of cannabis can be a little to make men sexual dysfunction, but high doses of marijuana can make a man impotent (can not or will not be able to maintain an erection).
"39 percent of men in the study in 1982 which said that marijuana can improve the sex lives because they have experienced the effects of this drug which can alter the perception of time, so that they consider to have sex with a long duration," explained Shamloul.
Most importantly, according to Shamloul, is the study published in 2010 in the journal European Urology. In that study, researchers found that receptors for tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active ingredient in marijuana, found in penile tissue from five patients with erectile difungsi and six male rhesus monkeys studied.
Shamloul say, these receptors, primarily in smooth muscle of the penis. Additional laboratory studies showed that THC has inhibitory effects on the muscle.
"This is a more serious effect on erectile function because of the smooth muscle makes up 70 percent to 80 percent from the penis itself," said Shamloul.
Shamloul has reported its findings in the online journal edition of January 26 in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
"The use of cannabis is widespread, especially in men at the peak of their sexual lives," said Shamloul.
The UN report says 162 million people use marijuana worldwide each year. More than 22 million use it daily.
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