Couples who smoke marijuana are less likely to engage in domestic violence
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Marital marijuana?
A new study by researchers at the University of Buffalo finds a significantly lower incidence of domestic violence among married couples who smoke pot. "Couples in which both spouses used marijuana frequently reported the least frequent IPV [intimate partner violence] perpetration," the study concludes.
These findings were robust even after controlling for things like demographic variables, behavioral problems, and alcohol use. The authors studied data from 634 couples over nine years of marriage, starting in 1996. Couples were administered regular questionnaires on a variety of issues, including recent drug and alcohol use and instances of physical aggression toward their spouses.
Previous research on the relationship between marijuana use and domestic violence has largely been based on cross-sectional data (that is, data from one point in time), and those findings have been mixed: some studies found links between marijuana use and/or abuse and domestic violence, while others did not. The Buffalo study is one of the few to use data collected over the course of decades to examine the question, putting it on solid methodological ground compared to previous work.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/08/26/study-couples-who-smoke-marijuana-are-less-likely-to-engage-in-domestic-violence/?wpisrc=nl-wnkpm&wpmm=1
Those that get high together live in peace together. Real talk family values.
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Then everyone turns into Mr Crankypants.
Hey, who hocked my harmonica? For enough to buy what? (
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all those pizza boxes and chip bags.... 
fail to outweigh all its unknown, but indeterminable negatives, and therefore must be illegal. Thus, the for-profit prisons can be kept brimming full with the bidness owners made wealthy so they can contribute big money to campaigns. 
