Study: Marijuana May Improve Your Endurance, Athleticism

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Many successful athletes smoke weed without any detrimental affect to their game (see: Michael Phelps, Ricky Williams, and the recent Lebron James saga). But a new study suggests that cannabis is perhaps a much healthier choice than HGH or amphetamines for athletes looking to gain an edge on their competition.

While the evidence remains slight, the weed’s affect on the mind and bodies’ Endocannabinoid systems has long beencompared to the runner’s high–and we know one’s lung capacity certainly increases through daily tokes.

But a recent study out of Germany regarding marijuana’s affect on brain inflammation adds some new information and support to this somewhat flimsy case:

“In preclinical models of neurodegenerative disorders, cannabinoids show beneficial effects, but the clinical evidence regarding their efficacy as therapeutic tools is either inconclusive or still missing,”Biokey-Gorzo said.

Such a process may remove damaged cells and improve the efficiency of mitochondria, the energy source that powers cells, it added.

Improve mitochondria = a harder, better, faster stronger mind and body. The translation of that doctor talk: your stamina and recovery ability approve by smoking weed. Without the needles and lingering damage of alternative substances.

The study also–and more importantly–reinforces cannabis’ positive affect on the brain, adding more evidence to the marijuana as a Sorcerer Stone type of medicine case.

“These discoveries shed new insight on how natural marijuana cannabinoids hold the capacity to literally kill the brain inflammation responsible for causing cognitive decline, neural failure, and brain degeneration. By supplying these receptor sites with cannabinoids, patients may be able to overcome brain conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and more, not to mention premature brain aging,” it said.

It added the human brain contains a network of special receptor sites that modulate nervous system function only when activated by the appropriate cannabinoid compounds, “which are found in the marijuana plant.”

With this, it said increasing cannabinoid system activity could be a “promising strategy for slowing down the progression of brain aging and for alleviating the systems of neurodegenerative disorders.” [GMan Network]

And the evidence of marijuana as medicine continues to pile up. More states and countries continue to progress towards medical marijuana and legalization. And now, both this world’s rising athletes and declining elderly can say that they smoke weed to stay sharp.

Addendum: It’s estimated that well over 50% of NBA and NFL smoke weed on a regular basis–and the NBA doesn’t even test for the substance in the offseason. This is for a reason.

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