![]() According to the World Health Organization, obesity has nearly doubled in the last three decades. In the United States, obesity has tripled in children since the 1970s and continues to rise. Based on report estimates by the Center for Disease Control & Prevention, one in five children of standard school age are obese. However, according to data published in the journal Health Economics, researchers affiliated with North Dakota State University reported that states which have legalized adult use cannabis, "may experience a decrease in state-level obesity rates." The researchers said, “Our primary experiment revealed recreational marijuana legalization, which allowed for recreational marijuana dispensaries to open, resulted in decreases in obesity rates…,” compared to the control group. Authors concluded, “As more states gravitate to decriminalization, expanded medicinal use, and legalized recreational use of marijuana, our findings provide important insights into contemporary drug policy.” In addition, some case-control studies have reported that folks with a history of cannabis use are "less likely than abstainers to be obese or have type 2 diabetes." Comments are closed.
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