This one’s from Mylene sent in, “Upon reading the article you recently posted about marijuana methylation, I wonder if rather than only affecting the methylation and sperm potential methylation of the fetus, does marijuana smoking affect the functional methylation of the user?”
Chris: It’s certainly possible. The reality is we don’t know a lot about what cannabis does because we haven’t been able to research it very easily for a very long time. I mean, that we’re shifting in the previous administration, some of the controls around that have been relaxed with the current administration being more difficult again and I hope that that will change again because cannabis is an incredible plant with a lot of medicinal properties, but we need to know more about it. There’s just a lot that we don’t understand yet.