Can Pot Boost Your Workout?

It didn't take much detective work for 17-year-old Tommy to find the common thread among his Minnesota high school's best athletes: They all smoked pot. "Everyone who had school records [and] state records ... had been a user," recalls the now 27-year-old teacher in Denver, who requested his last name be kept private.

So, Tommy tried it before his next track meet, too. The outcome? He broke the school record. Soon after, Tommy took star turns in soccer, basketball, baseball and football. He credited the weed.

"I thought it was what gave me the ability to do so and the ability to do better," says Tommy, who still regularly smokes pot before playing volleyball and other sports, some of them highly competitively. While everybody's different, he says, for him, the drug heightens the enjoyment of a given activity, accelerates his body's transition into the anaerobic mode in which he thrives and allows him to...

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