Running and Marijuana

It's not so black and white with marijuana as being an evil drug. A lot of my pothead friends had the same 'munching all day, playing video games, laziness' habits before they smoked pot. Pot just reinforced those bad habits.

I have a couple of friends who, according to them, need it to help them fall asleep every night. For years, they tried ambien and other crap but their insomnia was awful and pot has helped.

It's a gateway drug but so is alcohol, I mean even coffee can give you a 'buzz.'

I think every addict goes through the "it is helping me"-phase which is another form of denial. Marijuana, while most people assume it is harmless, is not at all harmless. If this is a high school kid who smoking three joints per day he's doing himself some severe psychological damage. Some people can get away with this but for others this is the onset for psychological dysfunction during adulthood.

there was a guy on my track team this year that smoked daily. he barely ran 25 miles a week but managed a mile PR in the 4:30s.

1/10

"I've never smoked and never will."

This much is absolutely obvious. Close-mindedness is a much more serious character flaw than pot-smoking. You admit to having absolutely no firsthand knowledge of the drug, yet you still feel that you know enough to draw this conclusion:

"it's not really him, it's the drug."

This is one of the silliest statements that I have read in a long time. Hopefully, you are trolling. I know plenty of potheads who are not laid back, do not make funny jokes, and do not have an ever-present sense of humor. It sounds to me like your "friend" has a pretty good personality. You, on the other hand, are clueless.

I waznt gonna check letsrun, but then I got HIGH, eeey, eeeeeey, eeeeeeeeeeeeeey...

He's better off than if he were smoking 3 cigarettes a day.

I like when people who know nothing about addiction decide that they should talk about addiction. Most of us runners are essentially addicted to the runner's high rush of neurotransmitters.

Did you know that when you get a 'ping' on your phone signaling a new message or voicemail or call, the "love hormone" oxytocin floods your brain? This is partially responsible for so many people checking their cells and facebooks and twitters and instagrams and emails and myspaces all the time. These behaviors can become maladaptive and be labeled as a "disorder" in diagnostic manuals.

Many disorders form around a dependence on LEGAL substances or products. Even the most seemingly harmless.

I've experimented with many drugs in my 56 years, but like with any stimulus... the addictive potential already seems to exist before first use. Many people can try many things without becoming addicted. And a person can become addicted to anything. As of the latest studies, alcohol is believed more addicting than cannabis.

i have smoked 3-10 blunts everyday basicaly since junior year in highschool. often times i would slow down before big races. but actually had done many workouts high and also have smoked before my races.

pr.

800-154

1500-3:53

mile indoor 4:15

8k xc 24:46

3k steeple 9:04

5k track one time raced 15:05

conference championships..junior college national champion. 15 time all american in junior college for track and xc

no lie wrote:

i have smoked 3-10 blunts everyday basicaly since junior year in highschool. often times i would slow down before big races. but actually had done many workouts high and also have smoked before my races.

pr.

800-154

1500-3:53

mile indoor 4:15

8k xc 24:46

3k steeple 9:04

5k track one time raced 15:05

conference championships..junior college national champion. 15 time all american in junior college for track and xc

So it doesn't mess up your lungs?

[quote]felonious wrote:

I think every addict goes through the "it is helping me"-phase which is another form of denial. Marijuana, while most people assume it is harmless, is not at all harmless.

Actually, it is harmless. Physically. Unlike all the prescription drugs, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, etc.

I am not a fan of smoking marijuana or any other drugs (including alcohol, cigs, or even coffee)... but smoking weed does not make you an addict or a drug fiend. Does drinking coffee daily make you an addict? A lot of people drink alcohol regularly as a social convention. Marijuana just has negative social associations. I know people who only smoke pot and have never done any other drugs, and do not care to.

Like mentioned above, some people find it to be one of the only ways to sleep or to relieve anxiety. Not all pot heads are disfunctional or lazy or psychologically imbalanced. One of my best friends recently graduated at the top of her class from UCLA law school and is now a successful lawyer... she smokes multiple times per day. I know several professional athletes who smoke nearly every day... they just enjoy it.

The situation is not as black and white as you are led to believe.

well odviously you would think that it would hurt your lungs. i'm not going to say that. but however it is proven to help and act as a pain med. which would in itself. help me whenever i was really hurting (sore) and also the emotional aspect of it. allot of running is mental. and it souns weird but there was nothing better to me then to roll a blunt smoke half of it. and put it out and bring it with me while i go on a 20 mile run in the country. and half way threw the run. i'll stop an smoke the rest of it to bring me on back home. the reason i was such a smoker and choose that over alchol was because i could smoke all day all night and wake up the next day fresh as ever. no hangover like alchol and feeling crappy the next day. to me its worse on your body being an alcholic then a smoker. i can perform andfuncion on weed. however LQ i different

Howabout driving and pot? Bolt would be banned for LIFE.

THC reduces tension - physically, mentally and especially emotionally.

This aids in the entire recovery side of training.

And pot is like anything else. If you have some self discipline it is no problem at all.

If you're going to use it get a vaporizer. There's no sense in damaging your lungs.

runfasterbro wrote:

there was a guy on my track team this year that smoked daily. he barely ran 25 miles a week but managed a mile PR in the 4:30s.

Same here but a 4:27

no lie wrote:

i have smoked 3-10 blunts everyday basicaly since junior year in highschool. often times i would slow down before big races. but actually had done many workouts high and also have smoked before my races.

pr.

800-154

1500-3:53

mile indoor 4:15

8k xc 24:46

3k steeple 9:04

5k track one time raced 15:05

conference championships..junior college national champion. 15 time all american in junior college for track and xc

Think of how good you would have been without the weed. Too late. You'll never know :((

"junior college national champion"? Where at?