{"id":49887,"date":"2015-05-19T21:30:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T21:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_boys_who_smoke_cannabis_are_four_inches_shorter\/"},"modified":"2015-05-19T21:30:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T21:30:54","slug":"telegraph_boys_who_smoke_cannabis_are_four_inches_shorter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49887","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Boys who smoke cannabis \u201d\u02dcare four inches shorter\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boys who smoke cannabis before puberty could be stunting their growth by more than four inches, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found that youngsters who were addicted to the drug were far shorter than their non-smoking peers.<\/p>\n<p>And they also discovered that rather than being a relaxing pass time, smoking dope actually makes the body more stressed in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Marijuana use may provoke a stress response that stimulates onset of puberty but suppresses growth rate,\u201d\u009d said study leader Dr Syed Shakeel Raza Rizvi, of the Agriculture University Rawalpindi in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/science\/science-news\/11613107\/Boys-who-smoke-cannabis-are-four-inches-shorter.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boys who smoke cannabis before puberty could be stunting their growth by more than four inches, a new study suggests. Researchers found that youngsters who were addicted to the drug were far shorter than their non-smoking peers. And they also<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49887\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,101,99,168,104,125,110,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-children","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-men","category-teens-youth","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}