Big New York Times story on doper athletes
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Polarbearboy
Tokin' Away Since 1968
Here's my now published comment to the NYT:
"Like several other commenters, cannabis has been an adjunct to my exercise activities for many years. I've been jogging, mountain climbing, snow shoeing, xc skiing and biking stoned for almost fifty years. Yesterday, being the first warmish sunny day with roads cleared of snow and ice, I cleaned up my bike and headed out to the entrance to one of the mountain notches for an hour or so of vigorous up-hill pedaling. Before hopping on the bike, I took two tokes from my vaporizer. What a lovely afternoon for this seventy year old.
About three years ago I quit smoking pot and turned to vaporization. My lungs are so so grateful. And the reward: I just had the best xc ski season of my retired 70-year-old life, skiing four or five days a week for two or three vigorous hours each day. Always with my vaporizer at hand in an insulated pouch in my daypack. Outdoors in nature, working up a sweat, often with good friends, stoned out of my gourd: This is one of my joys."