Jul 19, 2013
Clinical Infectious Diseases, hepatitis, HIV, liver, reverse causation
More good news for medical marijuana patients: a recent study found that marijuana use is not linked with the progression of liver disease in patients co-infected with hepatitis C and HIV.
The study, published in the July edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases,
These findings debunk the long-held belief that marijuana use exacerbates liver damage, which gives us even more evidence that marijuana is objectively safer than alcohol, in addition to being a relatively benign medicine.