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Originally Posted by HOOT
I have smoked weed for probably 10 years and know a ton of high performance athletes that do and it has not hurt their performance in terms of time, weights lifted, how hard/long they can play/train for, etc.
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This isn't a shot at you, but man this irks me. A lot of people have this stupid associative complex where they claim that weight loss or muscle gain is directly caused by a certain supplement or method. But when it comes to negative things like smoking, they cannot be convinced that it has its effects.
How do you know it hasn't hurt their performance? Have they gone a year+ without smoking, performing the exact same training under the exact same circumstances?
Strictly controlled research has a hard enough time factoring out error. You can't even begin to guess about the effects of something just based on someone being an athlete, or what have you.