What’s the pros/cons to caping weed and long distance running?

Why is weed also called dope (meant in the less trendy sense)?

Don't be a dope wrote:

Why is weed also called dope (meant in the less trendy sense)?

"Dope" is a slang word for heroin, not weed.

If you are getting regulated legal cartridges you shouldn't have much to worry about in terms of short term impacts on your running. If anything you may recover/sleep better.

If you are getting questionable cartridges that may have unregulated adulterants, who knows what you are doing to you lungs in the short term.

Same with flower, if its regulated you have less of a chance of inhaling nasty chemicals.

This answer applies to your short-term running and health. Long-term, I don't know if there have been enough studies to see what happens to the lungs with vaping. I know "pop-corn lung" is a real thing. In 20 years we may look back at vaping as a terrible, cancer-causing fad.

You tell me, both Noah Droddy & Parker Stinson vape weed and they seem to be doing alright.

I want to try it. I was told 10-15 is a good dosage.

Justin_Beedle wrote:

vaping flower or carts. Is there any downside? I can’t find anything official online. Some say it might be helpful with recovery?

Let’s say I smoke a little once a night and run 60 miles a week. Will that impact performance? Will it help?

Again. I’m talking about vaping not smoking.

I vape once a week. I have a Pax ERA with cartridges and a Pax 3 for flower. Starting this routine in December '18 when I stopped drinking all alcohol.

I've dropped 30lbs, ramped up the training to ~50 MPW, and dropped my half PR by over 8 minutes, shooting for my new marathon PR in September.

I haven't noticed anything but improvement since I made the switch.

I'm a recovering alcoholic (two years), and also vape about once a day (in the evenings). I'm 40, but my weight is down about 10 lbs. I haven't noticed any (negative) effects on my running whatsoever. I feel like my recovery is enhanced, and I noticed less soreness, but this could be anecdotal. My only concern is the long-term effects, as someone mentioned popcorn lung.

As an aside, I can still run sub-16 for 5K.

aoxomoxoa wrote:

I vape once a week. I have a Pax ERA with cartridges and a Pax 3 for flower. Starting this routine in December '18 when I stopped drinking all alcohol.

I've dropped 30lbs, ramped up the training to ~50 MPW, and dropped my half PR by over 8 minutes, shooting for my new marathon PR in September.

I haven't noticed anything but improvement since I made the switch.

The improvements (and weight loss) are from quitting the booze.

The vaping is insignificant.

I don't think it will do anything positive, but probably wont do anything negative either

The one thing people say a lot is it helps you sleep which isn't quite true, cbd improves sleep quality but thc adversely affects it (specifically REM sleep)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11920-017-0775-9

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/178475

so smoking weed probably wont help sleep

The whole corporate-driven marijuana craze is not motivated by good intentions.

Weed is better than being an active alcoholic, but it brings its own sneaky long-term problems that go beyond the physical.

I applaud you guys for switching from booze to vaping marijuana, but I hope you are able to make the next step like I did, after wasting years in a haze of marijuana.

Now I only take caffeine pills, one a day plus I might snort 1/4 of another caffeine pill.

Snorting a little caffeine helps me to feel like I'm still being rebellious and self-destructive, and it even has a tiny bit of a high. I snort a bump of caffeine if I'm dragging but know I should be going on a run. It's an instant pick-me-up, and gets me out the door, and then the runner's high kicks in.

Try kicking the marijuana vaping, and know that if you feel the need to relapse, you can just relapse to vaping rather than drinking.

I got 5 on it wrote:

I'm a recovering alcoholic (two years), and also vape about once a day (in the evenings). I'm 40, but my weight is down about 10 lbs. I haven't noticed any (negative) effects on my running whatsoever. I feel like my recovery is enhanced, and I noticed less soreness, but this could be anecdotal. My only concern is the long-term effects, as someone mentioned popcorn lung.

As an aside, I can still run sub-16 for 5K.

I'm just out of rehab(again)

Never been a cannabis user ,I'm wary of the vapes effect on lungs but definitely going to be using it in some form now

Chalking out a rail of NoDoz seems pretty hardcore to me, and I used to drink over a pint of vodka a day.

1 pill is 2 cups of coffee. I use scissors and cut off about 20-25% of one pill and crush that up. You don't have to wait for a delayed, gradual kick in.

But teenagers have died from snorting pure caffeine powder. It's just that they snort like 20 cups of coffee worth, and that's pure caffeine, not watered down caffeine pills.

I told my dentist I was snorting a little bit of caffeine, and he seemed to think the only real drawback would be an eventual sinus infection or something. I don't do it every day though.

Could you tell me some more information about it? Let’s talk in PM

I have an experience like that

It is a dope man