How Marijuana Affects Your Workout
After sweeping the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he earned eight gold medals, American swimmer Michael Phelps was caught bong-handed in a photo that quickly spread across the internet. Confronted with widespread censure and speculation about future disqualification, Phelps was forced to make the media rounds, apologizing for smoking marijuana after breaking his own record in an outstanding Olympic performance.
But for many, the candid photo raised another kind of question: Could pot be used as a performance enhancer? In the end, the athlete's bong mishap has become a symbolic example of marijuana users defying stereotypes of laziness. Indeed, the more we learn, the more we come to realize that these stereotypes are rooted in misconceptions about how marijuana affects the human body and mind. And in several recent studies, researchers took on the question that Phelps' celebratory bong rip raised, finding...
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