Wednesday Bowl Post: What are we smoking right now?

Thanks! Treated and about 95% chance it’s cured so yay for early detection.

The unknown with vaping is whether a fraction of vapers will develop 'lung scarring' (interstitial lung disease, fibrosis type) over decades due to carrier. Hard to say, but it is enough of an unknown that I avoid it personally. But who knows. 

as i'm sure you are aware, the cases of acute injury (EVALI) seems to have mostly melted away as people use better quality carts and avoid adulterated ones. 

(so for now vaping clearly much less risk than smoking for everyone, but absolute risk still TBD)

I am also moving away alcohol, to which my consumption definitely increased during the pandemic shut down. I have a family history of alcohol abuse. I have since decreased my drinking drammatically from averaging easily two beers a night to maybe one beer a week.

Good for you man.  I think a lot of us drank a bit more during the lock downs!

I am a scientist as well (molecular biology with a research focus on electronic structures of heme based metalloproteins).

As someone who works in the sciences you probably know this, but I say it for the group who also may be reading along as a caveat...exercise science is an applied science which uses the scientific method to answer practical questions.  In this endeavor there is almost never a universal "yes" or "no" answer and it almost always depends.  Be wary of folks who give universal answers to exercise science questions.  So, you'd never say "bench pressing is good for you".  That would depend on things like the age, health status, injury history, load, volume, & frequency of benching to name a few.  Bench pressing might not be a good idea for a baseball pitcher with a lot of wear & tear on his shoulder.  It might be perfectly fine for an otherwise healthy 22 year old offensive lineman in football using proper technique and under certain load, volume, & frequency parameters. You get what I'm saying.  So, we'd be unwise to make a blanket statement such as "vaping cannabis is bad for running performance" or "vaping cannabis is good for running performance" because it likely depends on who's doing it, the dose and frequency with which they're doing it, and the timing in which they are doing it.  

I am actually moving towards vaping for pain relief and anti-inflammatory properties.  I don't vape that much anyways. Just after my weekly long run (anywhere from 10 miles to 20 miles) and once during Friday nights to wind down. 

After a quick look around there isn't much out there analyzing the effects of vaping cannabis on exercise performance, which is not surprising.  I can't find much past COPD patients.  But, the way you're describing it, using it twice a week in the evenings after a difficult run in a low to moderate dose...I'd be surprised if that had any negative impact on your performance in a measurable way.  I'm sure there's a point where the dose and frequency of using it would have a negative impact, but there isn't enough data to say what those are and it seems likely it would be a lot more frequent than 1-2 times per week at a low to moderate dose, so you probably have nothing to worry about.  That was a lot of words to say very little...sorry.

It's cute you think alcohol isn't a drug.

GoBlueBill, no one cares. And if you don’t care about this, then just don’t click on the link.

As adults were allowed to decide for ourselves what we want to do with our lives and accept the risks.

Also, this is ignorant. the human body has cannabinoid receptors in most tissues, many of which primarily bind to THC. As a species, we have evolved alongside marijuana to the point we have beneficial cellular pathways that respond to endogenous cannabinoids as well as THC. There are massive beneficial health implications from ingesting THC and CBD that were just now unlocking.

Popular or not I will always speak out against smoking anything or using drugs

Popular or not, I will also point out the evolution of our species has been inextricably linked to the use of drugs, psychedelics, and other mind altering substances.

now why don’t you tell us what you do regularly so we can ride in on our high horses and tell you why it’s wrong.

We were until a couple holier than thou jibbronis came in here to put their ignorance on full display

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