How much does smoking weed really affect your running?

Yes, will do. And im not getting out of control on it. I know my limits.

I ask this question as someone who didn't know what emphysema was (exactly) until I was past 30, but to all of you who dispute that pot smoking CAUSES cancer and causes emphysema ... I am asking, in all seriousness .... How do you know it doesn't?

I have never smoked pot before, because I didn't want to affect my health. I also have never smoked cigarettes, or anything else for that matter. It didn't seem worth it to me. The potential cost was greater than the percieved benefits.

But the biggest reason I didn't was because I didn't want cancer and emphysema. I could not have lived with myself knowing that I exposed myself to these things that would kill me.

So, do any of you regular (or not-so-regular) smokers have any evidence that pot DOES NOT cause these diseases ... besides the usual, "It doesn't ... because my friend smokes all the time and he isn't dead."

Perhaps your PRs would be much faster. Much cooler to break 9:00 than to be stoned.

Uhmm i would have to say can you prove that anyone has ever died from smoking marijuana.. because there is no reports anywhere that say so. And it is impossible to overdose which makes it a safe drug.

14-flat wrote:

So, do any of you regular (or not-so-regular) smokers have any evidence that pot DOES NOT cause these diseases ... besides the usual, "It doesn't ... because my friend smokes all the time and he isn't dead."

I would like to help, but unfortunately, you're asking us to prove a negative, which logically is NOT POSSIBLE.

Best wishes,

--Mr. Science

How much does smoking weed really affect your running?

I think it would be hard keeping it lit.

Noakes' Lore of Running cites research saying smoking can reduce your performance 10-15%. Even if we assume you only take a 5% impairment because you smoke so infrequently, that means you might run 4:06 & 8:57 baseline. The choice is up to you.

While you might feel like there's no effect, your alveoli get paralyzed with the first puff and can take 24 hours to regain function. The total surface in your lungs where oxygen moves into your blood is going to be reduced. Less oxygen in your blood means less oxygen available for work means less power and speed. In addition, because the alveoli are paralyzed, bacteria, soot, and other particles aren't getting removed as efficiently as they should. That's why smokers get like 2x as many colds and URIs as nons.

If you're really interested, pick a workout and do it to failure. Why not give the 30-40 workout a try? Keep a log of your smoking. If you cut that out, your reps will definitely go up over time. Good luck...

lmaoee wrote:

Uhmm i would have to say can you prove that anyone has ever died from smoking marijuana.. because there is no reports anywhere that say so. And it is impossible to overdose which makes it a safe drug.

What is the price of tea in China? That's right ... nobody cares.

Where did I say that someone can die from it?

My question was aimed at the idea that it is accepted that SMOKING causes emphysema and lung cancer. People who smoke pot are ... wait for it ... SMOKING.

So I was wondering how they felt about the chances of getting an incurable terminal illness?

Is there some fundamental difference between smoking pot and smoking cigs? It seems to me that if I smoked maple leaves I would also get cancer.

I am just wondering how it is worth it to people who do smoke?

[quote]Monte wrote:

Noakes' Lore of Running cites research saying smoking can reduce your performance 10-15%. Even if we assume you only take a 5% impairment because you smoke so infrequently, that means you might run 4:06 & 8:57 baseline. The choice is up to you.

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Wow, I would have never considered 3x a week "infrequently" ... I guess most potheads I know smoke every day and usually multiple times per day. But I never would have considered doing something that is illegal and expensive 3x per week to be "infrequent".

14-flat wrote:

I ask this question as someone who didn't know what emphysema was (exactly) until I was past 30, but to all of you who dispute that pot smoking CAUSES cancer and causes emphysema ... I am asking, in all seriousness .... How do you know it doesn't?

So, do any of you regular (or not-so-regular) smokers have any evidence that pot DOES NOT cause these diseases ... besides the usual, "It doesn't ... because my friend smokes all the time and he isn't dead."

I know it's been said many times before, but why smoke it? You can ingest it by way of cooking brownies or using a vaporizer. Those methods can eliminate the risks of cancer and emphysema.

Weed is a de motivator for some and for sure one joint has ten times the tar of one cigarette. The tar is a big part of the carcinogenic in cigarettes and pot and also causes emphysema.

When I was a user I could come up with any excuse to get high and defend the natural weed in debates to the end. Most of us that smoke it say hey do you wanna get furked up? And that is exactly what it does furk us up. THC is a narcotic no matter what you smokers believe.

It made me sleep good for awhile but then I started waking up in the middle of the night and had to smoke more. Then it got where I woke up three or four times a night and got up and smoked more and this was two toke weed to start with but I built up a tolerance to it and if I smoked a dooby with my pot buddies they would be blasted on two tokes of the sinsemelia.

I don't know the exact figures but they have found at least hundreds of properties about pot that have consequences to users. What about the CO I would think would be breathed from the burning of the weed or cigarette or correct me on the chemical if I'm wrong.

Pot does lead to heavier drugs for some like me. I you get to drinking and smoking dope it is easy to try something else even more harmful. Inhibitions are wide open and some ass says take a hit of this acid man or hit my crack pipe and one will say sure let me try it....drunk and high...and this is how serious addiction develops.

Ones that are doing this are always in belligerent denial( they don't have a problem or think they don't)and will argue with you for days about how they are ok.

So how can smoking three days a week be SO important to you? If it isn't that important to you then stop for a month at minimum. If you can't stop for a month then you may have a problem with it and I don't care what the rest of the potheads on here say or casual users say...IT ISN'T WORTH IT MAN. If you smoke only three days a week then why even smoke the crap at all.

Someone said that pot has never killed anyone but it sure did help my buddy with his heart disease. He was a big old guy around 6ft5 and 400lbs and he smoked at least ten joints a day for years and he had a heart attack and died.Someone may say he was a fat arse waiting to get it but I guarantee you the pot was a strong factor in his death.

Now I will sit back and listen to all condone the magical weeds wonderful powers and it being safe because it is just a plant and all natural but I once grew large quantity along with other pothead buddies who did it to and we used insecticides, fungicides, growth hormones, put rat poison around the plants cause rats will eat the crap out of it and think about this...maybe some of that rat poison dissolved when we miracle growed em and maybe the plant could have taken it up...now this I don't know and also some of the poison could have made it in with the buds come harvest by accident. Well we were pretty good ol boys but there are some that aren't good ol boys and may sell you paraquat pot...If that stuff came from mexico or south america they don't even smoke it in South America because they know it hurts people. They call it loco weed and anyone down there that smokes is considered a dumb arrsee and they don't care what the youth of our nation or older folks for that matter are smoking...they just want their big money. Good luck

I know it's been said many times before, but why smoke it? You can ingest it by way of cooking brownies or using a vaporizer. Those methods can eliminate the risks of cancer and emphysema.[/quote]

BECAUSE COOKING IT TAKES FOREVER. AND VAPORIZERS COST LIKE 150$ AND THEY TAKE LONG ALSO.

Ex pot head wrote:

Weed is a de motivator for some and for sure one joint has ten times the tar of one cigarette. The tar is a big part of the carcinogenic in cigarettes and pot and also causes emphysema...

Oh no, it's the pot head version of the 430 miler.

That's a complement my friend.

10/10

one of the best troll posts ever

ughgdbd wrote:

BECAUSE COOKING IT TAKES FOREVER. AND VAPORIZERS COST LIKE 150$ AND THEY TAKE LONG ALSO.

How about some rules then. In order to ingest THC you must:

1) Earn enough income to afford a vaporizer.

2) Have some God damned patience.

Impatient people with crappy low pay jobs give true cannabis connoisseurs a bad name.

the more you smoke dope the longer it hangs in the system for. that cant be good if you are ever drug tested at a meet.

dont risk it man.

once every few months yes, but not once a week or more as you do.

14-flat wrote:

What is the price of tea in China? That's right ... nobody cares.

Where did I say that someone can die from it?

My question was aimed at the idea that it is accepted that SMOKING causes emphysema and lung cancer. People who smoke pot are ... wait for it ... SMOKING.

So I was wondering how they felt about the chances of getting an incurable terminal illness?

Is there some fundamental difference between smoking pot and smoking cigs? It seems to me that if I smoked maple leaves I would also get cancer.

I am just wondering how it is worth it to people who do smoke?

carcinogens cause cancer.

"cigs" contain carcinogens, weed does not.

ergo ur a huge idiot. do ur research b4 u start posting shit:

Enjoy.

Smoking weed reduces your willpower. That is a fact. I can't imagine how that could possibly be good for a runner.