HEAVY MARIJUANA USE AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MALE EMERGING ADULTS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS - PMC

Contents:

• HIGHSEXUALY: DO CANNABIS MAKE YOU GAY?
• STRAIGHT GUYS, DO WEED MAKE YOU FEEL GAY (AS HOMOSEXUAL)?
• FLORIDA ANTI-POT LEAR SAYS WEED MAK YOU GAY, LEADS TO AIDS (SERLY)
• HEAVY MARIJUANA USE AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MALE EMERGING ADULTS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS
• TOBAC, MARIJUANA USE AND SENSATN-SEEKG: COMPARISONS ACROSS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL AND HETEROSEXUAL GROUPS

HIGHSEXUALY: DO CANNABIS MAKE YOU GAY?

Some of you may have heard about the notn that nnabis n make you gay. In October 1986 Newsweek published an article, “Reagan Ai: Pot Can Make You Gay, ” based on ments reportedly ma by the Whe Hoe dg adviser Carlton Turner—who ultimately nied believg this claim. Regardls of the source, motive or whether Turner did believe nnabis n make you gay or not, some people ntue to hold this view.

So, let’s explore this qutn—do nsumg nnabis make you gay? Sce then, many differg opns have been formed about whether nnabis n make you gay or not.

STRAIGHT GUYS, DO WEED MAKE YOU FEEL GAY (AS HOMOSEXUAL)?

” and “Can you really be a ‘high sexual, ’ or are you jt gay (or bi) and unwillg to embrace whout a ltle help om Mary Jane? People would pose the qutn, “Do marijuana weed smokg make you homosexual?, ” a fom and people ntribute their rpons.

Some believe that nnabis n make you gay, while others believe that nnabis n’t make you somethg you aren’t. Answers ranged om “Y absolutely, ” all the way to, “If that were te, the majory of people I know, men and women, would be gay. Or you will be gay, even jt once.

It’s not jt gay or straight. Sayg mak you temporarily gay is not the right way to say . To claim that nnabis nverts your ttosterone to trogen which then mak you gay is not supported by rearch.

FLORIDA ANTI-POT LEAR SAYS WEED MAK YOU GAY, LEADS TO AIDS (SERLY)

Do Cannabis Make You Gay? Consirg all of this rmatn, the verdict is that nnabis do not make you gay and do not make you straight if you are already gay. Do weed make you temporarily gay?

Or I don't thk 's temporary really but I don't thk I'm gay or bi eher. Or maybe a b bi but I've stopped thkg of myself like straight, homo or bi. Is gettg high makg people gay, or is beg gay makg people get high and then fet that they got high to pe wh sexual nfn?

Are you gay, y or no? "Do weed make me gay? This Grass Cy post don't ask but tells: Smokg weed ma me gay.

HEAVY MARIJUANA USE AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MALE EMERGING ADULTS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS

I don't know what is about weed but ma gay. Or be a gay man..

but i don't see how the hell weed mak you gay.. Please share your stori of weed makg you gay below, and let me know if you need a smokg partner:p.

The very tle of the article pats Carlton as the bigot he allegedly was at the time, “Reagan Ai: Pot Can Make You Gay. Summarizg their take on the 1986 Newsweek article, the group says that Turner “once stated that marijuana ‘leads to homosexualy…and therefore to AIDS. To be fair, he is rrect; he never directly stated that ‘weed leads to homosexualy which then leads to AIDS’.

TOBAC, MARIJUANA USE AND SENSATN-SEEKG: COMPARISONS ACROSS GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL AND HETEROSEXUAL GROUPS

In the 1986 Newsweek terview, Turner talks about his time visg wh mors dg treatment centers, and rellg that over 40% of them had allegedly engaged homosexual activy. He is, however, quoted directly sayg about his theori on homosexualy that, “It seems to be somethg that follows along om their marijuana e … My ncern is, how is the blogil system affected by heavy marijuana e? “I never said smokg marijuana will make you gay — I said if you’re the subculture, you’re gog to be exposed to this, ” spouted Turner a recent terview that sound an awful lot like his quote om 1986 when he said, “When you talk to young people who e dgs, you fd their hibns agast everythg are gone.

Homosexualy, AIDS, and a stratn fixatn…do they even offer therapy for 73-year-old men? Addictn rearch has intified enhancement of experienc, pg, expansn of awarens, nformy and social anxiety as motivatns for creased equency of marijuana e among emergg adults, although fdgs have varied among different sampl and study signs (Bonn-Miller & Zvolensky, 2009; Buckner, Bonn-Miller, Zvolensky, & Schmidt, 2007; Simons, Correia, & Carey, 2000) young gay and bisexual men, emergg adulthood n be particularly challengg. The stabily that characteriz emergg adulthood may occur earlier for this populatn, as gay and lbian adolcents have been documented to be at much greater risk for beg naways than heterosexual adolcents (Kks, 1991; Tenner, Trevhick, Wagner, & Burch, 1998).

Across studi, lbian/gay/bisexual youth have been more likely to report past month marijuana e than heterosexual youth (Marshall, Friedman, Stall, Kg, Mil, Gold, et al., 2009), and weekly marijuana e among young urban men who have sex wh men has been reported as high as 23% (Thie, Valleroy, MacKellar, Celentano, Ford, Hagan, et al., 2003).