Study: Marijuana Use Lowers Incidents of Domestic Violence

The use of alcohol significantly increases one’s likelihood of becoming either a perpetrator or a victim of a violent act, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/08/19/alcohol-is-still-the-deadliest-drug-in-the-united-states-and-its-not-even-close/  including acts of intimate partner violence 
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/world_report/factsheets/ft_intimate.pdf> .

As for cannabis use -- that’s a different story.

In fact, according to a just-published study http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25134048  in the journal Psychology and Addictive Behaviors, couples who use pot are particularly unlikely to engage in intimate partner violence.
Read more:
http://www.hightimes.com/read/study-marijuana-use-inversely-associated-domestic-violence

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