Marijuana can reduce suicide rates!

Marijuana can reduce suicide rates!

Recently, a number of US states, including Colorado, have legalized marijuana. In other areas, you can obtain it for basically any "medical" reason.

Whether you agree with this easy access to the drug or not, it has been shown to have one good side effect. It reduces suicide rates.

A German study in 2012 found that, in areas where it was easier to access marijuana, suicide rates had decreased - by 5% overall. Researchers said that suicide is often caused by "stressful life events," and getting high can relieve this stress.

For example, in California, "anxiety" (another word for stress) is a legitimate reason to use medical marijuana.

Of course this study goes against many other studies that link marijuana use with depression and suicide. Are the Germans seeing causation when it's really on correlation?

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