Weed in sport

[Eo the Stoner!]

In which sports to athletes use mj to enhance performance?

[pipeman]

haha...I'd say none!

[Guest Babybear]

hm the only sport i know is SEX

[Guest Guest]

Yeah IMO very few except sports were a depressant may help performance like sportings shooters maybe if HR increase was controlled and if the dose was low enough so the effects don't cloud the mind, It would be useless in any sport that required physical activity because mj increases the bodies need to rest not fight or flight (or exercise) in general but its effects are very complex and while a standard response to exercise is incr. Heart rate HR which mj causes there are a raft of effects that are more aligned to a parasympathetic response and in fact the opposing sympathetic response is turned off by mj in a number of areas in the body.

[Spurious]

The slight inrease in heart rate, combined with the moderate blood vessel constriction associated with cannabis use, can at times be benificial to body builders. Fewer 'sets' of any particular exercise need to be performed to initiate the 'pump' that's required for growth gains. The muscles become engorged with blood much quicker, and this pressure drains much slower.

Whether or not body building can actually be deemed to be a sport, is up for conjecture, however its similarities in peek physical performance to sport and competitiveness, would suggest that it is closer than not.

 

Cannabis used with steroids can promote even greater gains with less work to get them. Of course the risk of death due to some kind of embolism is also much higher in this case.

 

[Chev]

In which sports to athletes use mj to enhance performance?

The same you probably play at school mate . Seriously, this site is designed for 18+, and that's the rules. Sorry mate, but you've been told already, you'll have to come back when you're older

[Guest Wilderbud]

Sometimes weed makes me concentrate more. I can play billiards better and drive better when I am stoned in a certain way [some weed can do the opposite of course] but Im stoned at the time so I dont really know if I really has improved my skills - I could win pool comps only when I was wasted so you never know [maybe they just let the most stoned guy win all the time - hmm].

[Guest Babybear]

HAH if house cleaning was a sport id say that helps when stoned , i find cleaning fun to a point an dont mind doin it , i love the feeling i get when im hight an do it , Then the next day it looks nice an pretty

 

Bb

[Luke Skywalker]

Computer games, I'm usually better at them moderately stoned than straight, but it's a fine line... one too many and I'm practically useless.

 

A while back, didn't an athlete in snowboarding or something like that get a gold medal at a major event, only to have it stripped because they found cannabis in his system? Thing is, they had to re-instate the medal I think, as the use of cannabis was determined to be detrimental to performance, rather than enhancing!

 

Laughed my arse off when I heard it, did anyone else see that a few years back? I'm a bit fuzzy on the details... (aren't we all? )

[pipeman]

yes I remember that Luke. I don't remember him getting the medal back though. Cannabis is illegal in a lot of professional sports, nothing to do with performance, all illegal drugs can get you in trouble in most professional sports, performance enhancing or not.