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Also the test doses on the monkeys started at a dose equivalent to an average (70kg) man taking 10mg every day.

Since micro-dosing is generally in the 2 to 5mg range, the monkeys were given a starting daily dose that is 2 to 5 times greater than the micro-dosing we have been discussing.

The non-paywalled portion of the article does not say how much higher the dosing went to get the results they claim. At $31.50 I won't buy access to an article that doesn't pass the most basic methodological scrutiny.

Yes, roughly. That is why the article's starting dose disqualifies it as evidence against appropriate medical use or social use within the bounds of Catholic moral theology.

There is also an interesting blind spot (so surprised!) in the researchers' assumptions. In the non-paywalled portion available online, the researchers only refer to MJ down-regulating the hypthalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, but that is a bogus assumption.

As I described in the Endocannabinoid thread, the Encdocannabinoid System ("ECS" in the article) is quite unique from other neurotransmitter systems. Re-read that article to understand that the ECS is a post-synaptic release that seeks homeostasis; over-active components are down-regulated and under-active components are up-regulated. Hence, the many hundreds of MJ chemiocals (why researchers studying one chemical, THC, cannot paint an honest picture of MJ use) can either up-regulate or down-regulate fertility (as it does with the dozens of other ECS components like bone density, mood, etc.).

Phytocannabinoids (see that thread) behave similarly, up-regulate where needed and down-regulate where needed. Another topic in which I have been interested is placental (not a baby, songbird, but the afterbirth previously discarded) stem cells. Stem cells, like MJ, enhance homeostasis—by different mechanisms than MJ, but still promote health by up-regulating or down-regulating as the body's healing systems need.