A little off topic but I have said this before and I’ll say it again…I really think that for some people it is a performance enhancing drug. I have played alot of high end hockey over the last 30 years and I have seen guys smoke a shitload of weed in the dressing room and hit the ice flying, pun intended. These guys performed better on weed than off of it. These guys would smoke weed between periods while the ice was being cleaned. Ross Rebagliati, the Canadian snowboarding gold medalist had THC in his system when he won the gold, Michael Phelps was caught smoking weed and I’m sure there are many others but those two come to mind.
I think it’s like alcohol in that some people can drink and handle it and some can’t. Some people can smoke weed and it helps but for others it doesn’t. Just this weekend I played in a hockey tournament and we had six 24’s of beer in the dressing room between ten guys. We played two games on Friday night and we stayed in the room until 1:30 AM Saturday and some of the guys drank probably about 12-15 beers each, if not more. Our next game was 9:45 Saturday morning and at least two of those guys were back in the dressing room drinking beer at 9:00AM then hit the ice and played two games of hockey. I have no idea how they can do that because I was at a hockey party Thursday night and had a few beer more than I usually do and was that sick I could not even look at the beer for most of the weekend.
[SNEAK BRAG] And just for the record we won the tournament. ( It was an a tournament based on the original six NHL teams and had some of the best players around here http://s920.photobucket.com/albums/ad42/JFLuvly/?action=view¤t=2011.jpg. heres a pic from after the final game… ) [SNEAK BRAG]
So I guess my point is that it did not seem to affect their performance where as for me and some of the other guys we could not play at that level if we had drank all weekend.
Incidentally, Dr. Lester Grinspoon, emeritus professor at the Harvard Medical School is a renowned researcher on the topic. You can find a lot of actual information on his site and related links. http://marijuana-uses.com/
The question in this thread, I believe, is not whether pot is worse than alcohol. It’s whether it impairs one’s ability to drive. Is there anyone who thinks it doesn’t?
Driven while high twice. The first time, I made a u-turn. The u-turn ended by a red light so I stopped. I forgot to straighten the wheel though and when the light turned green, I almost hit the lady in the next lane.
