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Does Cannabis Really Make You More Violent? Here’s What a New Study Found.

A review of 63 studies linked cannabis use to higher odds of violence, but researchers say it doesn’t prove weed is the cause.

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There’s science, and then there’s what we know from day-to-day observation, no scientific method needed. From personal experience, many of us can attest that people who smoke weed are usually the chillest folks in the room. Yet, a massive review from King’s College London, published in Psychological Medicine and detailed by Science Daily, reveals a weird link to the opposite. They found cannabis is strongly linked to higher rates of committing crime and being a victim of it.

What adds a bit more validity to the findings is that this isn’t a study of a........

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