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Is the New Cannabis-Cortisol Scare BS Science or BS Journalism?

“Think Marijuana Helps Relax? New Study Links Cannabis With Higher Levels Of Stress Hormone.” That’s the headline that’s been making the rounds, courtesy of a health tabloid site that specializes in the kind of alarming framing designed to make you click before you think. It’s built to make stoners everywhere quietly reconsider their evening ritual. So let’s do what that headline actively discourages: read the actual study.

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