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Athlete's Corner

Learn how cannabis can affect athleticism, injuries and recovery through evidence-based educational articles and interviews with professional and amateur athletes on the subject of cannabis and sport.

In Full Stride with the Founder of 420 Games

For the past five years, Jim McAlpine has watched cannabis and athletics form a strong bond. As the brainchild behind 420 Games, the largest cannabis-focused athletic event in the world, McAlpine is optimistic for where sport and cannabis can take their budding relationship.

Why a Former NHL Enforcer is Embracing Cannabis

“Athletes need something to help them get through the night, to wake up sharp in the morning, and that something is cannabis, not pharmaceutical drugs.”

How cannabis helps runners

When U.S. Olympian and Ironman champion Joanne Zeiger recovered from a devastating bike accident in 2009, which caused severe structural and nerve damage, she spent five years taking a variety of opioid medications to help ease the pain coursing through her body. But those narcotics didn’t work.

What are topicals?

The list of sophisticated new cannabis products lining product shelves of this new space is extensive, and impressive. More often than not, these products serve as a responsible introduction to medical cannabis. Where pipes and bongs have a tendency to lend stereotype to any conversation of cannabis therapy, new delivery methods like oils, edibles and topicals tend to have exactly the opposite effect.

Does cannabis help you work out

When 21-year-old Sarah Claremont goes to work out at her Chicago gym, she almost always uses cannabis before slipping on her sneakers. “It helps me with my stamina,” she says in an interview. “And it helps with my focus because sometimes my mind can be all over the place due to my ADHD.”

Medical cannabis and CBD in sport

An assessment of the merits of cannabis therapy in sport, including a look at the use of medical cannabis and CBD by professional athletes.

Understanding cannabis as medicine

When discussing cannabis, it is important to remember that the line between science and folklore can at times be fickle. In the context of cannabis as a treatment, for instance, there is only one direct scientific source (THC found in ashes) that cannabis was used as a medicine, around 400 AD.

Exercising the Right to Feel Great and Recover Quickly

Cannabis has long been riddled by myth and beaten down by stereotype. Suffice to say, the image of the typical stoner – feet up on the couch, eyes glazed over and red over a perma-smile, with a bag of chips in hand – still finds resonance in the collective consciousness. Thankfully, however, that viewpoint is quickly starting to morph and a new picture is beginning to emerge.