A group of economists recently published a report in the American Journal of Public Health proposes states that have authorized medical marijuana may see a decrease in suicide rates in youthful men.

The specialists investigated state-level suicide information over 17 year period, from 1990 to 2007, from the national vital statistics system’s mortality subtle element records. They broke down information from the 12 states that had authorized therapeutic marijuana throughout that time and contrasted it with states that proceeded with criminalize the medication. In states that had authorized marijuana for medical utilization, there was a 10.8 percent diminished in the suicide rate of men in their 20s and 9.4 percent lessening in men in their 30s, the study found.

“The negative relationships between legitimization and suicides around adolescent men are reliable with the theory that marijuana could be utilized to adapt to distressing life occasions,” the creators composed. “Be that…