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For over a year and seven months, Desmond McLaurin has been training 2-5 days per week, and in that time he's impressively put on 40 pounds of muscle mass and his max on bench and deadlifts has “gone through the roof.”
The 27-year-old’s secret weapon? He always smokes a joint before lifting.
“It helps keep stuff off your mind and makes you focus harder on what you’re doing,” McLaurin said.
Dr. Cedric Bryant, Chief Science Officer for the American Council on Exercise, says pot can help your focus while training.
“The ability to block out the monotony of a long-duration event may be just as important as physical ability in some cases,” he said.
Dr. Bryant also said smoking can give athletes an extra good-feeling boost.
“The part of the brain that responds with a pleasant buzz when exposed to the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in marijuana is that same part that fires when athletes feel a ‘runner’s high,’” he said.
https://au.askmen.com/sports/bodybuilding/should-you-smoke-weed-before-working-out.html
American University Unveils New Degree: Marijuana Chemistry
September 26, 2017 by STEPHEN JOHNSON
Northern Michigan University is offering students the chance to major in a new program called medicinal plant chemistry — marijuana analysis, basically.
The program is the first of its kind at a four-year university in the U.S., according to CBS Detroit. Students will take classes in chemistry, plant biology and business entrepreneurship, and the program will also feature a capstone “research experience” involving “experimental horticulture and instrumental analysis of natural products.”
As far as hands-on experience?
Canfield said the school created the program in response to the growing medical marijuana industry.
“The need for this is so great. You go to some of these cannabis industry conferences and everyone is talking about how they need labs, they need labs,” he said. “Or the bigger operations are trying to set up their own labs in house and they need trained analysts. And the skill set required to perform these analysis is perfectly matched with an undergraduate level education.”
The program will prepare students for careers in either the medical or recreational marijuana industry.
“I predict that the graduates from our program are going to have among the highest immediate job placement of any of our programs,” Canfield said. “People are either going to go out and get jobs or they might go out and start their own business in the industry.”
The economic data seems to back him up. Marijuana sales boomed by 30 percent in 2016 to $6.7 billion in the U.S. and Canada. It’s now fully legal in eight states, which means that 1 in 5 of the total U.S. population lives in a legal adult-use market.
http://bigthink.com/stephen-johnson/a-midwestern-university-just-created-a-program-for-marijuana-analysis?utm_source=Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=acb5e8d3e8-Daily_Newsletter_092717&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_45b26faecc-acb5e8d3e8-43847029
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he is probably high as a kite, and feels nothing, lol,