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Those who admitted to regularly smoking pot had a sperm count that was 29 percent lower than those who reported lighter use or didnât smoke at all. Meanwhile, men who used other recreational drugs alongside marijuana had sperm counts reduced by 55 percent and sperm concentrations reduced by 52 percent. Pot smokers were also found to have higher levels of testosterone within the same range as cigarette smokers.
Recent studies on the sperm samples of young males 18-25 have found that 15-20 % have a sperm count of 20m of sperm cells per milliliter of semen. Similar survey taken in the forties found a sperm cell count of well over a 100m per milliliter. An 80% drop in roughly 70 years... that's rather alarming, don't you think?