Marijuana and running?

Alcohol abuse is more predictive of schizophrenia than marijuana abuse.

THE MORE YOU KNOW

And what exactly is the problem with schizophrenia?

I think marijuana could be beneficial to running if it isn't inhaled and vaporized or eaten instead. Marijuana can be a bronchodilator and decrease airway resistance and increase airflow. But the highs I usually get from brownies or whatever usually glue me to the couch for a few hours and don't have me rushing out the door for a run. I don't think smoking weed really hurts me much unless it's smoking through a bong because of the tar is terrible for your lungs. I think alcohol is much worse for running than marijuana. This morning I'm hungover and my run was awful whereas with marijuana I probably wouldn't have had any problems.

Ha! Thanks doo doo and ra ra. I think I proved I condone, eh?..

I'm a weekly smoker and enjoy smoking after my races. I usually avoid it before the race because the munchies slows me down but I recently smoked the night before to help me relax my nerves to help me sleep. Ran a sub 8 3k and a pr the next day.

Forefoot runner wrote:

Well it has been pretty much PROVEN that marijuana use increases the chance of developing schizophrenia in susceptible individuals especially if begun in adolescents.

False. No one PROVED it, it's just a bunch of speculations.

There is no increase of new schizophrenia cases in countries where marijuana is smoked daily. No matter if 3% of population smoke or 70%, schizophrenia rate remains the same - around 0,96% or something around it (sorry, not remember now correct number).

I don't know where they did mistakes in study, but statistics do not lie - smoking does NOT cause schizophrenia. It's another propaganda of drug dealers, to keep prohibition and profits from black market.

While I don't dispute your first claim, the part where you said statistics don't lie? Yeah.... that couldn't be farther from the truth. 99% of all statistics are made up.

It's pretty likely that mentally unstable people tend to abuse drugs. It isn't the drugs that make them insane, because they're already crazy. If anything it's the LACK of their drugs (their meds) that pushes them off the deep end.

Shanghai wrote:

I remember going on recruiting trips to many of the top D1 schools, and almost all of them had a lot of their top athletes that were potheads. So I'd say it probably doesn't hurt you that much.

You never went on a recruiting trip to "the top D1 schools." That's the biggest bunch of bullshit I've ever heard. They may have had shaggy hair, but the majority are not pot heads...they would get killed at the elite level, don't let anyone tell you differently.

Shanghai wrote:

I remember going on recruiting trips to many of the top D1 schools, and almost all of them had a lot of their top athletes that were potheads. So I'd say it probably doesn't hurt you that much.

This is a lie. THERE IS RANDOM DRUG TESTING IN THE NCAA.

I can tell you that I personally know college runners that have qualified to NCAA's and was once NON champions that smoke

WELL DUH FUC K. So imagine you are an adolescent future-schizophrenic. You are developing schizophrenia, you definitely need to smoke weed in order to alleviate that. Self-medication, it's INSTINCT. Just like when pregnant bitches crave mushrooms, they need the iron. This is just SCIENCE, come on now.

Smoking weed makes me lazy and not want to run. Id rather lay on the couch all day or hook up with some chicks. Then, Im too tired to run and would much rather sleep. I think I may stop smoking once this bag is gone. Seems to always interfere with my winter training.

I smoke medical marijuana daily and can run a 5k in about 18mins. I'm a firm believer in smoking weed and running - it's a my meditation and my exercise. Definitely smoke a sativa - sour diesel is a good strain for running as is green crack.

Just an anecdote, but one of my friends in high school was a 4:17 miler. Got high as a kite the night before a big XC meet and ran 17:10 (on a fast course). Not sure if it was cause and effect or not.

are you trying to say he would have run a 15:30-15:40 5k if he would not have smoked

Zayix04 wrote:

are you trying to say he would have run a 15:30-15:40 5k if he would not have smoked

He ran 15:45 on the same course about 2 months later.

If you want to be the VERY VERY BEST, I wouldn't smoke anything, but you can always eat it or even vaporize it. But as others have said, it really isn't a big deal if you aren't a very heavy user. Hell, I was a 4:20 miler in HS, and a year ago (I'm 25 now), I was smoking literally a dozen cigarettes a day and smoking pot three to five times most days and I ran to lose some weight and was cruising at 6 minute pace on shorter runs or 7 minute pace on longer runs after within a couple of weeks. I'm sure I could have run close to 4:30 for a mile with a week or two of intervals. While smoking the equivalent of a pack a day. At least for me personally, it doesn't have tremendous effects unless truly abused. Your mileage my vary.