Marijuana Research Offers New Hope For Male Birth Control Pill

[Crunchy]

The male birth control pill has lingered for years tantalizingly just out of reach, in the realm where rumor meets science. Recently developed hormonal and mechanical contraceptives never found an audience, serving only to highlight the absence of a male pill. Now, an examination of how smoking pot lowers fertility may make the male pill more than a persistent rumor.

Writing in last week's issue of the journal Cell, University of California, San Francisco, researcher Yuriy Kirichok revealed a new link between bong hits, a protein called Hv1, and the ability of sperm to swim. Hv1 activates in alkaline environments, like the vagina. Kirichok's study showed that endocannabinoid anandamide, a chemical found in the kind bud, raises the testes' pH. In that raised-pH environment, sperm start swimming too early, and get too tired to reach the egg once they actually exit the body.

A pill that contains anandamide, or in some other fashion alters the pH in testicles, could make anyone's sperm as lazy and apathetic as the spliff-ripping burnouts gaining that sterility the hard way.

However, before every tosses out their condoms in favor of some chronic, it should be noted that an Hv1 pill can't hit the market until some scientists explore some potential side effects. Specifically, Hv1 protein acts across the body in a range of different ways, not just in sperm. By changing the pH environment for Hv1 protein in general, bodily functions may alter in unforeseen ways. So while this is definitely a positive step towards creating the long-desired male birth control pill, it may not be available in stores until after Gilliam finally finishes his Don Quixote movie.

 

source: http://www.popsci.com.au/science/article/2...th-control-pill

[gothash]

i will preorder a lifetime supply...

[Reverend]

What a load of crap.

My mate has been smoking since year dot and has 5 children, 2 of which are twins.

[squiggs]

im with ya gills i have 4 kids

although mabye i should try wanking with hash oil

[Radic]

Biologist John Aitken from the University of Newcastle in Australia called the research "absolutely exquisite".

Aitken noted that because Hv1 occurs in other parts of the body blocking it's function for the purpose of contraception could have side effects.

 

"Before we proceeded we would have to look at whether Hv1 is expressed in other parts of the body in order to make a judgement about how specific the effects would be on reproduction."

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3291/ne...mosmagazine.com

seriously these scientists dudes just dont get it

ffs

we have 7 youth

im still not shootin blanks

aint fe lack fe tryin

i smoke 1gram hash oil every day

we eat it regularly

we have rubbed it all over our bodies

even bathed in it

we found it to be more of an aphrodisiac than contraceptive

lotza fun really

one year for mardigrass i made some cannabis kissing cream

it was a big hit everyone loved it

lotsa babies born that year in nimbin

irey guidance

[thc24]

no comment.

[Crunchy]

i think its more that they've discovered a side effect of smoking pot, which is lazy sperm or w/e, Hv1 is the cause of that, even even though we may not experience infertility just from smoking, by ingesting a higher dose or more concentrated dose of Hv1 we may see the effects that are exaggerated from smoking pot.

[Radic]

i hear you crunchy

thats why i quoted Biologist John Aitken

jumping to wild conclusions

"look at whether Hv1 is expressed in other parts of the body in order to make a judgment about how specific the effects would be on reproduction."

i have had massive doses of hash oil and processed hash oil into many products

tried them all many times, over many years

i am way above high risk

i should be the laze sperm king

so i set the precedent with 7 children

thanx the goddess my sperm were so laze

maybe i could had more

that is scary

excuse i while i light me spliff

[louise]

Even if they manage to come up with a male pill type contraceptive, what woman in her right mind is going to believe "Hey honey, it's ok I'm on the pill"?

[Crunchy]

Even if they manage to come up with a male pill type contraceptive, what woman in her right mind is going to believe "Hey honey, it's ok I'm on the pill"?

that is true, but now the men will finally have power and control over their fertility, just like women have with the pill.

imagine how this is going to reduce the amount of accidental births, reduce the chance that a woman will have to go through the sometimes traumatic experience of abortion. And now all the athletes, musicians and politicians wont have to deal with the expensive problem of illegitimate children hehe