# Outlaw Running Now!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlaw-running-now/224030>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 11, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlaw-running-now/224030 "2004-01-11T19:21:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlaw-running-now/224030/1 "2004-01-11T19:21:32Z")

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Researchers find a naturally produced Cannabinoid in runners, probable source of the “runners high”.

[http://edition.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/01/11/marijuana.exercise.reut/index.html](http://edition.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/01/11/marijuana.exercise.reut/index.html)  
Of course, this means an instant DEA clampdown on runners and joggers everywhere.

I can see the ad campaign now;

_Run a Mile, Go to Jail_

_Only Losers run long distances_

Of course, in this era of asset forfeiture, this will mean the seizure of the offender’s brains…

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlaw-running-now/224030/2 "2004-01-11T19:27:31Z")

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I hope the drug tests employers make you take nowadays can tell the difference…

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**Author:** ![Feit\_C\_Taj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@Feit\_C\_Taj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feit_C_Taj)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlaw-running-now/224030/3 "2004-01-11T19:42:17Z")

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Just say No! Sit on your ass all day until the lateral spread wedges you into your easy chair, and we can win this battle in the war on drugs!

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**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlaw-running-now/224030/4 "2004-01-11T22:03:26Z")

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Nike Smoke.  
Just doob it.

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**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlaw-running-now/224030/5 "2004-01-11T23:30:08Z")

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Shin splints: the anti-drug.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlaw-running-now/224030/6 "2004-01-11T23:36:41Z")

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Why is this all over the news now?

Haven’t we known for years that anandamide release is one of the things that makes tantric sex so darned mind-bending?

“Wow, other types of marathon exertion produce the same effect!”