Colorado University Announces Groundbreaking Study on Cannabis and Exercise

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Marijuana is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, as well as the United States Anti-Doping Agency and the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. A “first-of-its-kind study” at the University of Colorado in Boulder aims to find out. In September, the World Anti-Doping Agency said that it would reconsider its ban on cannabis. The so-called SPACE study (“Study on Physical Activity and Cannabis Effects”), announced on Monday, “will enlist more than 50 paid adult volunteers who already mix cannabis and exercise for a study involving three sessions,” the university said in a press release. “In the first, researchers measure heart rate, have subjects answer a questionnaire and take some baseline fitness measurements. On another visit, they do the same, only they get high before they come.” Laurel Gibson, a PhD student in the University of Colorado’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and principal investigator of the study, said that the study will help fill in a gap in cannabis research.

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Should pot really be considered a “performance-enhancing substance”? A “first-of-its-kind study” at the University of Colorado in Boulder aims to find out. 

When American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson was denied a chance to compete at the Tokyo Olympics this summer due to testing positive for marijuana, it brought attention—and plenty of skepticism—to the reasoning behind the prohibition of cannabis in the world of competitive...

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