Normal Plasma Testosterone Concentrations after Marihuana Smoking

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To the Editor: Recently, an inverse relation was found between plasma testosterone concentrations and the amount of marihuana purportedly smoked by chronic users.1 In attempting to verify this finding, Mendelson et al.2 found no significant decrease in the plasma testosterone levels of men whose marihuana usage was carefully monitored in a hospital for one month.Data collected in our laboratory support the latter finding. Twelve men, 21 to 38 years of age, varying from occasional to habitual users of marihuana, were housed for five days on a drug-research ward. Clinical and laboratory screening tests (in addition to a blood sample . . .