And now: Are chronic marijuana users really more relaxed than everyone else? The meat of this study comes from comparing the stress responses of the cannabis users and the nonusers. Same finding: Nonusers rated themselves as more stressed out than the chronic marijuana users. There's an outside chance that some of this effect could be due to self-selection: Perhaps naturally relaxed people are more inclined to become frequent cannabis users? 1 reason cited by marijuana users for why pot is their drug of choice.

Source: Washington Post July 31, 2017 16:39 UTC