I’ve been thinking this for weeks, there is literally nothing to gain by giving this barely sentient potato more attention 

You mean like through a combination of harsh economic sanctions, propaganda, assassinations and coups committed against socialist countries by the US?

That drives me nuts every time it comes up! That’s not what, or who for the most part, HIPAA applies to!

She’s a fucking moron.  Full stop.  

The holocaust comparisons are disgusting and a lot has been said about that so I won’t add to it.

the levels of serious disease requiring PED treatments is way higher for athletes than the general population!

I don’t think that’s what makes marijuana potentially a performance enhancing drug. Alcohol can also ease anxiety, and marijuana can also make anxiety worse. I don’t think I’d use it if I was going to be in front of a big crowd in a life-defining event, at least not for the purpose of easing anxiety, because that…

It varies with the sport. Some are genuinely at the physical limit, like cycling - you have to be insanely tough to be a professional road racer, but being tougher than the rest isn’t what wins you races.

Medical exemptions have always been a thing; the problem is, without a formal medical exemption system, you basically don’t have an anti-PED system, since everyone will just claim medical use.

It’s kind of silly, yes, but that’s an unavoidable part of PED regulation: there’s not actually a clear, bright line dividing what’s allowed from what isn’t. There often ends up being a distinction between what is and isn’t a reasonable, normal, culturally-expected thing to ingest.

This reminds me a little of the Naomi Osaka discussion. How much of elite athletics comes down to “mental toughness”?

That seems silly though? I mean, unless you’re going to ban athletes from doing anything that helps them relax or aids their recovery.

Initially wrote a post, then researched, and here I am again to say that the anti-doping rules are straight up going to ruin athletes physical and mental health.

It appears as though it is, though.

I don’t think the idea that marijuana CAN be performance enhancing is necessarily wrong (I was just thinking the other day about whether it would be a performance enhancer for like a distance run). But I don’t think it’s a performance enhancer for sprinting (unless you get paranoid that someone’s chasing you), and I…

“1. ...increased risk taking, slower reaction times and poor executive function or decision making.”

Well . . . maybe it is for the Nathan’s Hotdog Eating Contest and other eating contests. But that’s probably it.

““Based on current animal and human studies as well as on interviews with athletes and information from the field, cannabis can be performance enhancing for some athletes and sports disciplines.””

(draws deep breath)

Jason Miller is a piece of shit.

Walking is to Trump as reading was to GWB.