Quick question. I haven’t raced an ironman in a little over 4 years. But still run while I started boxing, and sparring again. Sparring can get you to max heart rate in 2-3 minute intervals. This s translated to lower resting heart rate for me and lower lthr threshold. Meanwhile, I’ve been using thc edibles and vapes pretty much since I quit racing triathlons. I’m curious about the impact on lungs. Some days I feel faster with lower perceived effort. Other times like today it feels like my heart just doesn’t want to go above zone 2.
Any real research on the effects of vaping THC. All the negative articles seem to be tied to vapes cut with vitamin e on the black market. I take more than 5 puffs in a given day.
Again? Boxing and overall fitness seems unaffected. Just seems harder to run some days than others. Maybe I’m overthinking. Maybe Since I don’t have a racing goal, running isn’t as fun as it used to be. This did all start after covid cancelled the masters boxing tournament I was going to answer.
I don’t use the “I’m a doctor, listen to me†card very often, but I’m an anesthesiologist who covers our state burn unit. I’ve seen 3 patients in the last year whose vape devices exploded. One had it combust in his jeans pocket, so he got his entire thigh skin grafted. The other 2 had theirs explode while vaping, so they now have skin grafts to their neck and face.
Shut up. My retirement depends on more Americans getting high. Keep on puffing, vaping, eating, drinking, rubbing whatever glorious cannabis products you can find all over and inside your body people! When the worst side effect is an 18650 battery going nuclear, you know it’s safer than alcohol.
Yeah. Back in the old days I enjoyed getting and staying high all the time. Glad to see the world finally coming around to the facts of the effects of the plant, rather than just falling for the propaganda that was instrumental in creating legislation that destroyed individual freedoms and personal responsibility in order to throw minorities in jail for non-violent, victimless crimes, and boost funding to asshat, unconstitutional government agencies, while inadvertently creating some of the most violence cartels in the world, just across the border.
Just blanket saying “there is no medical use for a substance” and not investigating it’s potential to relieve pain, increase appetite in cancer patients…etc. is hubris of the highest order. Meanwhile, politicians, CEOs, and doctors line their pockets from the pharmaceutical companies that created a nation-wide opioid addiction crisis. 🙄
Not gonna lie though, I’m not a fan of smelling pot every10 minutes walking around any legalized city with my family. But, it’s less offensive than the smell of tobacco imo.
Yeah. Back in the old days I enjoyed getting and staying high all the time. Glad to see the world finally coming around to the facts of the effects of the plant, rather than just falling for the propaganda that was instrumental in creating legislation that destroyed individual freedoms and personal responsibility in order to throw minorities in jail for non-violent, victimless crimes, and boost funding to asshat, unconstitutional government agencies, while inadvertently creating some of the most violence cartels in the world, just across the border.
Just blanket saying “there is no medical use for a substance” and not investigating it’s potential to relieve pain, increase appetite in cancer patients…etc. is hubris of the highest order. Meanwhile, politicians, CEOs, and doctors line their pockets from the pharmaceutical companies that created a nation-wide opioid addiction crisis. 🙄
Not gonna lie though, I’m not a fan of smelling pot every10 minutes walking around any legalized city with my family. But, it’s less offensive than the smell of tobacco imo.
Unfortunately any positive effects of a drug are always negated by the asshats that do dumb shit while under the effect of the drug, like drive a vehicle and kill someone.
Shut up. My retirement depends on more Americans getting high. Keep on puffing, vaping, eating, drinking, rubbing whatever glorious cannabis products you can find all over and inside your body people! When the worst side effect is an 18650 battery going nuclear, you know it’s safer than alcohol.
You forgot to make your text pink. No way that’s a real comment.
Nah. Dead serious. Vaping got me off cigarettes after smoking tobacco for 12 years. Then I was able to ween myself off nicotine by lowering the dosage little by little until I was done. Vaping improved my life dramatically after failing to quit with the assistance of medical professionals multiple times. I was able to free myself of addiction thanks to vaping. I recommend any tobacco smoker to try vaping as a alternate tobacco cessation method. There are ways to minimize the associated risk of vape, so it is a much preferable alternative to smoking tobacco.
When the most risky thing about it cheaply produced Lithium Ion Battery failure or ODing on nicotine absorbed through the skin, I’d say that’s a pretty great trade off for avoiding inhaling tobacco smoke that is proven to cause cancer.
Ahhh. The “vaping got me off cigarettes†theory. As if vaping is somehow better for you than smoking cigarettes. And by the way…the battery exploding is one of MANY side effects of vaping.
I know of a Yugoslavian air hostess that fell from 30.000 feet after her plane blew up, survived, and lived to her mid 60s. However my advice would be not to fall 30.000 feet from exploding aeroplanes.
Shut up. My retirement depends on more Americans getting high. Keep on puffing, vaping, eating, drinking, rubbing whatever glorious cannabis products you can find all over and inside your body people! When the worst side effect is an 18650 battery going nuclear, you know it’s safer than alcohol.
I always encourage people to smoke weed and by lottery tickets to pay my kids way through college. Gotta love the tax/scholarship system. Smoke away my friend.
(I on the other hand will never smoke a damn thing)
THC can distract you from pain, make boring stuff easier, and might reduce inflammation. CBD also seems to reduce inflammation. I think most people who use it are claiming it helps with recovery.
Both can be used without having to inhale anything. Tinctures and edibles are readily available.
Ahhh. The “vaping got me off cigarettes†theory. As if vaping is somehow better for you than smoking cigarettes. And by the way…the battery exploding is one of MANY side effects of vaping.
I don’t vape and I’m not tempted to try but I don’t think you are being logical about this. I think that most agree that crazy “theory” that vaping carries less risk than smoking is correct, the European Heart Journal among them.
Vaping has its risks and its own issues (like kids being attracted to it) but it also has upside if it means not smoking, THC included. The battery explosion thing is nasty and maybe that suggests need for better regulation on devices. It’s still less of a risk than smoking a pack a day one would think?
One British journal article. What a mountain of evidence. I’m certainly not going to debate medical literature on ST. I’ll stick with the multiple lectures/articles/etc I’ve encountered that suggest the opposite is true. To each their own.
Ahhh. The “vaping got me off cigarettes†theory. As if vaping is somehow better for you than smoking cigarettes. And by the way…the battery exploding is one of MANY side effects of vaping.
I don’t vape and I’m not tempted to try but I don’t think you are being logical about this. I think that most agree that crazy “theory” that vaping carries less risk than smoking is correct, the European Heart Journal among them.
Vaping has its risks and its own issues (like kids being attracted to it) but it also has upside if it means not smoking, THC included. The battery explosion thing is nasty and maybe that suggests need for better regulation on devices. It’s still less of a risk than smoking a pack a day one would think?
Except that cheap stuff everybody is buying (see the OP) contains toxins and other impurities. No regulations and control.
Scientific work is mostly using lab-grade THC, which almost nobody has access to. Totally irrelevant.
Besides,
weed smoke makes me more nauseous than cigarette smoke (Seriously sick, actually)
And yeah, in spirit of a clean competition, it’s cheating.