This is surprising news, and is something I’d like to see replicated before I totally buy it. Nonetheless, a recent study has found that within a four-week period, adults were more active on days they used marijuana.
This was a study that consisted of 98 men and women and asked if they did any vigorous physical activity on the same days they smoked marijuana. Of note, the study was only given to participants who were already users of marijuana.
“The observed positive between- and within-person associations between cannabis use and MVPA [moderate-to-vigorous physical activity] aligned with our hypothesis and prior cross-sectional observations that people who use cannabis (vs. non-users) tend to report more minutes of weekly [physical activity, or PA] and have higher accelerometer-measured light PA and MVPA,” the authors of the study wrote.
Since non-smokers were not used in the study, the main outcome from a study like this is refute the lazy stoner stigma. It seems many users of marijuana actually use the substance to aide in physical activity.
Obligatory skepticism: this was only done with 98 adults, all of whom were smokers. It would be extremely interesting to see this on a larger scale over a longer period of time, and see how the results line up. If anything, it’s another added nuance to many that marijuana and its psychoactive effects offer.
Read the original story at Marijuana Moment.
