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  Marijuana Buzz Linked To Runner's High - US Study

Posted by CN Staff on January 09, 2004 at 15:27:39 PT
By Paul Simao 
Source: Reuters  

Atlanta -- The same family of chemicals that produces a buzz in marijuana smokers may be responsible for "runner's high," the euphoric feeling that some people get when they exercise, U.S. researchers say.High levels of anandamide were found in young men who ran or cycled at a moderate rate for about an hour, according to a study made public this week by the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of California, Irvine.
Anandamide is a cannabinoid, or lipid molecule, that is naturally produced in the body. It is known to produce sensations that are similar to those of THC, the psychoactive property in marijuana.The study's findings, which were recently published in the journal NeuroReport, fly in the face of those who believe that the release of brain chemicals called endorphins cause the peculiar high that some runners and cyclists claim to feel.Arne Dietrich, the study's principal investigator and a former visiting professor at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, believes the body releases cannabinoids to help it cope with the prolonged stress and pain of moderate or intense exercise."No other study has ever considered this possibility, which is why the results are so significant," said Dietrich, who added that there were no indications that cannabinoids caused any harm when naturally released during intense exercise.He added that the findings could provide sufferers of glaucoma and chronic diseases an alternative to using marijuana for pain control. Use of the drug for medical purposes has been approved by voters in some states, but remains illegal under federal law and highly controversial in the medical community.The 24 young men who participated in Dietrich's study were asked to run, cycle or sit. If they ran or cycled, participants began with a brief warm-up, followed by 45 minutes of moderate exercise and then a short cool-down period.Dietrich said further studies were necessary to determine the precise nature of the increase in cannabinoids during physical activity and to what degree the intensity, duration and type of exercise affected their release.The "runner's high" theory emerged in the United States during the running craze of the 1970s, when researchers discovered the brain's opiate receptors, which are proteins located on the surface of nerve cells.Some scientists, however, say the concept is a myth. Source: Reuters Author: Paul SimaoPublished: January 9, 2004Copyright: 2004 Reuters Limited CannabisNews -- Cannabis Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml

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Comment #73 posted by Celephais on January 13, 2004 at 12:02:31 PT
On Pythogoras
"How did he attain his intellectual freedom?By starting his school in Italy, across the sea from any Greek city-state authority!"That and ergot..
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Comment #72 posted by E_Johnson on January 12, 2004 at 13:34:22 PT
Illiteracy is a favorite tool of tyrants
Another thing that aids in the development of science is when a lot of people know how to read and schooling is available to people outside the upper class.The Chinese ruling class made sure that schooling was only available to the ruling class. That helped a lot in keeping down potential usurpers from the lower classes.If you're illiterate, you can't accomplish much in terms of revolution. Other than just smashing things up a bit.
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Comment #71 posted by E_Johnson on January 12, 2004 at 13:28:34 PT
Another point about Greek science and math
Most of the great developments that are considered the scientific contributions of Greek civilization were made by scholarly communities in Greek colonies in Asia Minor or North Africa.Somewhere outside of Greece in other words. Far from the seat of power.
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Comment #70 posted by yippierevolutionary on January 12, 2004 at 13:16:05 PT
That is very interesting stuff EJ
I was reading something about that in John Taylor Gatto's book about the dangers of centralized nationalized forced education in America.He said something about how in WW II The German soldiers were much more feared by the US than the Japanese because The Japanese were not independant thinkers bayonets with legs they called them.
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Comment #69 posted by E_Johnson on January 12, 2004 at 12:00:03 PT
Science requires intellectual freedom
This is what is needed to do basic science. Intellectual freedom, material sustenance, and a means of knowledge distribution.The imperial ruling class in China controlled the material sustenance and the means of distribution, and they never at any point supported any idea akin to intellectual freedom.Early Greek science developed because Greece was run by local city states and no one ruler or ruling class could have controlled the ability of scholars to form communities, ponder deep questions and circulate their findings in writing. The Greek civilization was multiploar, whereas Chinese civilization was unipolar. Central authority didn't exist in ancient Greece and so intellectual freedom could be achieved in practice back then, at least temporarily.Think of Pythagoras, who discovered the basic properties of a stretched string and proved the ancient rule for finding the length of the hypotenuse of a given triangle. How did he attain his intellectual freedom?By starting his school in Italy, across the sea from any Greek city-state authority! He had a community of followers and they all worked together, independetly of the Greek spiritual system that declared what was true and what was not about the world. Pythagoras was a heretic according to Greek religion.But eventually he got shut down. It took a long time for someone to shut him down, but eventually some government authority arose to shut him down. He was perverting youths who came to study with him. His period of intellectual freedom was temporary. Governments have always hated independent thinkers. Science has always depended on independent thinkers.In China, the independent thinkers of science never got a toehold. The ruling class never allowed it. Anyone with an apptitude for science was converted to an imperial bureaucrat or an engineer. The only other option for an intellectual lifestyle was the Buddist monastery, where they couldn't study anything other than Buddism.In the West and Middle East, basic science thrived for as long as intellectual freedom and material sustenance were compatible with the system of authority. When those conditions failed, so did basic science. That's why the major development activity in basic science jumped from Greece during classical times to the Arab and Jewish world in medieval times to Europe in the Age of Reason, and that's why there were huge gaps between those periods where science wasn't being developed at all.Basic science stopped during Roman times because the Romans did what the Chinese did -- turned all of their scientific types into engineers to serve the expansion desires of the ruling class. Engineers or bureaucrats. The Romans took Greek science and Greek scholars and made them into designers of aqueducts and bridges and military operations. Advancement in basic science was shoved aside for the development technology that could advance the expansion of the Empire, just like in Imperial China. 
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Comment #68 posted by E_Johnson on January 12, 2004 at 11:24:16 PT
Technology is not science -- I repeat
The Chinese never developed a basic science of their own.Modern science is completely based on knowledge discovered in the West.During so-called Dark Ages, when medieval philosophers were working on questions of humaanism and moral order, basic science was being done in the MEDITERREANEAN COMMUNITIES OF ISRAEL AND EGYPT AND BAGHDAD. Jews and Arabs developed basic science while Europe was consumed with questions in the humanities that arose in Christian philosophy.And by the way -- I don't view the Dark Ages as some evil time of oppression. Scientific development is only one side of the coin. Moral development has to proceed, the questions of humanism have to be asked and someone has to try to answer them. The so-called Dark Ages in Europe was a time when moral and humanistic questions dominated all other questions being asked by the establishment.There was no basic science establishment in China, they did not put their resources into supporting basic science. The Chinese knew very little about basic science other than what they needed to make commercially tradeable goods or devices that could pump water into rice fields better.ALL of the science the Chinese use NOW in their own scientific establishment CAME FROM THE WEST.When you study physics in China, you study Newton and other Europeans. There never was a Chinese Isaac newton, because they would have forced him to become an engineer and design civic projects for the community.SCIENCE IS NOT TECHNOLOGYScience is a body of knowledge unto itself. Technology is how you use science.China was technologically advanced, but at the same time, scientifically backwards.I've been to China by the way. As a physicist. The only physics they do in China is physics developed in the West. They never developed any general theory of physics in China. They only worked out what they needed to build better ways to move water into rice fields.And it's not because of lack of intelligence. It's not because the Chinese mind can't so science. It's because the ruling class, in charge of social resources, had different social priorities. To support science, you have to support a bunch of people sitting around and thinking for no discernable reason. A bunch of snmart privileged people allowed to think independently -- NOT GOING TO HAPPEN IN IMPERIAL CHINA!!!!!Basic science doesn't always pay off in terms of technology, and the Chinese ruling class chose not to support basic science for that reason as well.It's a simpel fact. Plain and simple. period.
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Comment #67 posted by yippierevolutionary on January 12, 2004 at 08:22:02 PT
The Difference between East And West
According to the primitivist line of thinking there is none. You can read more about this at the link below. Primitivism is a school of thought that takes the fact that before civilization emerged 10,000 years ago with agriculture hunter-gatherers were in man's natural state and were in balance as far as population goes. Also civilization there was no ability to horde food in the form of grain which led to an egalitarian society where food was shared equally. So according to them there is no important differences between east and west because they are both part of the same culture. The culture of the complex civilization where there is strong specialization, poor health, huge separations between rich and poor, powerful and weak etc. It is very interesting stuff and really gives you a perspective in that human beings have been around for 3 million years and were living in a way that worked for millions of years, while the way we are living now is a radical new experiment that in only 10,000 years is getting close to destroying the earth. 
http://www.eces.org
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Comment #66 posted by ekim on January 12, 2004 at 07:23:17 PT
another science that needs more attention
that would be CON-Science. {Inner moral self.} Has been bought off by the other Sciences.
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Comment #65 posted by Celephais on January 12, 2004 at 03:56:37 PT
E_Johnson comment 63
Think Dark Ages....While the Europeans were battling plague, famine, feudalism, a soulless Catholic church, using rickety swords and strong but clumsy stone castles, the Orient was enjoying herbal remedies, sanitary standards of living, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, flexible katana's made of steel folded thousands of times, and buildings that are functional as well as beautiful. It wasn't really until the invention of the gun that the West had anything over the East in terms of culture or technology.Science - 1. Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts.
2. Accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge.3. Especially, such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena, the nature, constitution, and forces of matter, the qualities and functions of living tissues, etc.; -- called also natural science, and physical science.4. Any branch or department of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind.5. Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles.Note: Science is applied or pure. Applied science is a knowledge of facts, events, or phenomena, as explained, accounted for, or produced, by means of powers, causes, or laws. Pure science is the knowledge of these powers, causes, or laws, considered apart, or as pure from all applications. Both these terms have a similar and special signification when applied to the science of quantity; as, the applied and pure mathematics. Exact science is knowledge so systematized that prediction and verification, by measurement, experiment, observation, etc., are possible. The mathematical and physical sciences are called the exact sciences.By these definitions... the Orient had the upper hand on SCIENCE, not just technology. IMO this is due to Eastern philosophy. Rather than study the seen and work towards the unseen as Western science has done, starting with the exact sciences (mathematics, physics, biology) and moving towards psychology, quantum physics and string theory (more of an "unseen" feild of study), Eastern philosophy promotes learning the unseen first, and then applying that to the physical world. Basically "divine revelation", the same principle that brought about the Mosaic laws in Judaism, which for the time period were advanced standards of ethics and sanitary living, even though there was no "research" done to give these standards validity. But it was a part of what allowed the Hebrews to survive when multiple other civilizations had crumbled. They had to be on to something. Lets not forget that the FIRST page of Genesis (NIV) gives us the First Amendment right to eat all the cannabis we want... Brownie's anyone?I'd like to hear GCW's comments on this.... he actually reads his Bible and doesn't just repeat the party line of whatever church he is a member of.
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Comment #64 posted by Celephais on January 12, 2004 at 03:18:16 PT
E_Johnson comment 41
Makes me rethink the 70's... and reinforces my current opinion about the underground rave scene. Its coming back.. and this time around I think it'll be a force to be reckoned with when it reaches its peak..Especially since if I have anything to say about it (which I intend) it will draw from Sufism as well as many other "mystical" religions.IMO ALL religions SHOULD be mystical... whats the point of spirituality if theres no spirit to it.Call it delusions of grandeur.. but I hope the efforts myself and my friends will make will have a chain effect that just might put the spirit back into religion and take the control away from "them"
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Comment #63 posted by E_Johnson on January 11, 2004 at 22:35:59 PT
What scientific advantage?
As far as I have learned, the East did not have any scientific advantage over the West, if by the East you mean China.The Chinese put most of their talent into developing and maintaining their social and bureaucratic hierarchies. They strongly suppressed the type of individualism necessary for initiators of scientific innovation and leaned very heavily towards cultivating good engineers. When the Chinese made a scientific discovery, they quickly put it to use in the form of technology, and they developed the technology instead of the science. Having advanced technology is not the same as having advanced science. Europe was a much better breeding ground than China for pure scientists, and for radicals and revolutionaries of all kinds.
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Comment #62 posted by yippierevolutionary on January 11, 2004 at 09:26:45 PT
Medical Prohibition and Christian Fundamentalists
Virgil I have had a theory that they have only been holding out on the Schedule 1 lie until Pharmaceutical Cannabis was ready so of course they can make money (commodify) something that is free. E_Johnson your post being drunk used to be the norm reminded me of a discussion I had with my a Fundie who was telling me Good Christians should not drink any alcohol. I asked him well what about Jesus he drank wine all the time in the bible. And he went into this whole thing about how he had to drink Wine because water was not safe to drink back then. I have also heard the theory that the East's scientific advantage over the West up until recently was because the Easterners boiled their water to make Tea while the Westerners were drunk all the time.
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Comment #61 posted by Virgil on January 10, 2004 at 19:28:20 PT
Brain swelling and MLG
There just happens to be an article up at the weekend edition of CounterPunch concerning a boxer from Tennessee that many thought would be the next Ali. He spared with Ali when he was 15 and did go on to be a heavy weight champion of the world. This article says that 87% of all boxers will suffer a brain injury in their career- http://www.counterpunch.org/johnson01102004.htmlThe boxer's name is Gret Page and it is pertinent to a discussion of MLG/CC because swelling from a blow to the head about killed him when he was his injury was not properly attended by a qualified doctor. They thought he might be a vegetable and consider it great that he now a little better. It all raises the issue of what happens when atheletes turn to cannabis under state approval for injuries that have pain and swelling. Even as narrow as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is, it is an opening to the Cannabis Curtain defense of total prohibition of the federal government. An appeal about has to be made, because the smallest amount of daylight does in the Dracula that is sucking our freedom, money, responsible government, and Constitution in a cloak of darkness.They cannot defend Schedule 1 now, but GW Extracts throughtout the Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand cannot be stopped. Then India will just make their own. The Supernova is coming and it cannot be stopped. The prohibition is now collapsing. 
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Comment #60 posted by Nuevo Mexican on January 10, 2004 at 17:37:11 PT
Absolutely! Epiphany!
I love that word!That's wwhat we all experienced in the 94 Northridge Earthquake, and the first thing everyone I knew grabbed for was their bong. Reaching for a beer wasn't a universal reaction it seemed at a time of emergency, but cannabis was! (4:30am as well, should've been 4:20! LOL!)Jesus annoited people with Cannabis oil, healing many, many ailments, not by magic, but by Cannabis. (just ask GCW)Jesus was supposedly born under the sign of Picses, (according to the Dead Sea Scrolls), which means fish. He actually had 6 planets in Picses, the main reason he was 'christed', and becoming the Christ figure for the Piscean Age, as we now are well into the 'Aquarian Age', where instead, some say we ALL get crucified, AND resurrected, so none to worry!)So you're absolutely right, Jesus was living the life you described, in harmony with nature, fish and hempseed/cannabis oil, and seemingly partially crucified for revealing the secrets of the priests to the common man.With mixed results.The freely given 'gifts of God', that enables any human with access to seed, earth, sunshine and water, the ability to sustain themselves, food, fuel, medicine, clothing and shelter,and others, without intervention from corporate, or feudal authorities.But the truth can never remain hidden, and Cannabis seems to be one of the bigger known secrets or 'miracles of life', up there with sunshine, oxygen, blood, water, the moon and the planet Earth!
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Comment #59 posted by ekim on January 10, 2004 at 17:09:07 PT
what is know about the farmers
Jesus must have had a farmer as a helper.everything that has been said is well documented. what about the farmer that raised all the herb. about the spinners that spun for those that sowed. I don't think that all the fabric was from wool. and what about the nets we know the sails and rope were from the herb.
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Comment #58 posted by E_Johnson on January 10, 2004 at 12:34:45 PT
A fish is the symbol of Christ
I'm having an epiphany.Jesus was from the Galilee province. The Sea of Galilee was the major fish producer in Israel. Everyone in Galilee either fished or processed fish or served wine and food to people who fished and processed fish.Mary Magdalene. She came from the town of Magdala. Magdala means "tower" in Aramaic. The town's Herbrew name was Migdal Nunaiya, which means "Tower of Fish".The Greeks called it Tarichaea, which means "fish factory".Magdala was a town where the main economy was processing fish. Drying it, mainly. The early Christians were doused in cannabis oil and living mainly on fish.It's all about the essential fatty acids!That's the secret wisdom of Christianity. Eat some fish, and raise your cannabinoids in prayer.
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Comment #57 posted by Virgil on January 10, 2004 at 12:28:17 PT
Jack and the bean stalk is revisionist history
There once was an island in ancient times that prohibited marijuana. One spring day a mom told her son to take a calf into town and sell it. He met a man in good cheer eating some soup on the side of the road. He said he had some special seeds whose precious soup could lift him above the clouds and could make him rich if the big hancho did not find out. Jack knew the man to be of good character after having soup with him and discussing the problems of the island and the selfishness of the big hancho that would give the seeds to his chickens so they might be happier in their cages.Jack grew a big garden so he would have vegetables for his uplifting soup which was the way the islanders hid their treasure from the big, head-hancho. The place became known as Happy Island until some tax collector spilled the beans.They ruined Happy Island and made up some crazy story in revision of history and pass it off as truth till this day.
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Comment #56 posted by E_Johnson on January 10, 2004 at 12:25:53 PT
Virgil being drunk used to be the norm
There was an article in Scientific American about the use of alcohol to make water safer. Wine and beer do act as mild microbicides, it turns out.Apparently most people before the modern era of clean water didn't drink plain water, they drank water mixed with a little beer or wine. Water was regarded as dangerous. Beer and wine were regarded as safe. It was a custom to weaken beer and wine with water but not to drink the water plain.So everyone was a little tipsy.
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Comment #55 posted by FoM on January 10, 2004 at 12:17:50 PT
Virgil
My friends that were Italian served small glasses of wine with dinner. A little wine is suppose to be good for a person. I don't drink though. I have but I gave it up.
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Comment #54 posted by Virgil on January 10, 2004 at 12:11:51 PT
Wine
I read where people have no idea how big fish was in the diet. Last week I was thinking about how wine and beer was a way of preserving food and would furnish calories in the winter when the body needed calories. Wine and beer was part of a scheme of survival. It had to be.
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Comment #53 posted by E_Johnson on January 10, 2004 at 12:10:17 PT
Clinton and midnight basketball
The right wing was really savage to Clinton over that midnight basketball program, but that was really unfair. It was a good idea, and now we know it was an even better idea.Kids in the inner city have dysfunctional families. Sometimes it's better for them to be out of the house until their parents pass out.If they have to roam the streets at night because their homes are full of chaos, it's wise to have a place where they can go to increase their cannabinoids safely with adult supervision.Because that's what they're going to want to do if they're out at midnight and not in bed at home asleep safely and happily.It's all coming together. The connected wisdom of cannabinoids and human behavior.Playing basketball, dancing, smoking weed, making music. It all goes together in hip hop culture. Hip hop is part of the cannabinoid response to stress.
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Comment #52 posted by FoM on January 10, 2004 at 12:08:20 PT
EJ I Agree
Back in ancient times my Mom cooked all of our meals and eating out was done only on special days. Cooking meals was a big part of my Mom's day.PS: I'm just kidding about ancient times. I couldn't resist.
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Comment #51 posted by Virgil on January 10, 2004 at 12:07:46 PT
EJ- hempoilaise
possibly reduced to hempolaise
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Comment #50 posted by E_Johnson on January 10, 2004 at 12:00:03 PT
Urbanization and cannabinoids
People used to get a lot more exercise back in ancient times. And they used to eat more fresh food, more whole food, more raw food, and more fish.Maybe cannabis smoking arises naturally in urbanized societies, because people are trying to compensate for inadequate cannabinoids caused by the sedentary stress and poor nutrition of urban life.
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Comment #49 posted by E_Johnson on January 10, 2004 at 11:53:06 PT
Virgil, Hemponnaise
Use eggs from a chicken raised on hemp seed.
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Comment #48 posted by Virgil on January 10, 2004 at 11:27:54 PT
My take on weightlifting
My definition of a geek would probably be the guy that did not lift weights. It is a guy thing as is probably done by even a bigger percentage of men today than in the seventies. Here is a thing at Salon about the 1978 movie, Pumping Iron, where Arnold burns some laughing grass- http://slate.msn.com/id/2086733/I am 50 years old and have two hand bars that never weigh more than 15 pounds. I have an iron bar that might weigh twenty pounds that I am going to break out and twist and turn some with it. Weightlifting would be my exercise of choice and since Canada sent North Carolina some winter air, I may start back today. I am not into heavy, just the rust fighting kind to keep things from locking up.Here again, I am not trying to be about me, but about weightlifting. It should not be done by boys in serious fashion until they become a teenager. People that worry about brittle bones should carry a weight if not lift it as the body will respond to need and work on the bones.There was an expression I read in the late seventies that Sears said it would employ in its marketing- a cradle to grave philosophy. It was in an article that said the boomers were like a wave to be surfed. In the 70's sports participation by the boomers was a real phenomenon. So were Pampers. When I was in my accounting days and Hardee's and Burger King and McDonalds were staking out the prime locations for those on the go, I always wondered why they did not serve breakfast as the fixed cost of having the location was already paid by the after 11AM business. Breakfast would be to profitable to pass up seeing how they already had a store there and all. The wave idea will soon be hitting coffins as the funeral home has protections in laws and practice that hurt or block the sales of coffins over the Internet. Funerals will get cheaper.A few days ago I was in Winn-Dixie and a woman was handing out samples of low carb chocolate popsicles from Klondike. I gather Breyer's owns them has they had some Breyer's sugar-free ice cream there too. The low carb diet is going to be bigger than the no fat diet, because people are really addicted to carbs. I should know as I have been fighting the fight for about a year now. I think I have got myself where I will not drink anymore sugar water which was really killing me. America is addicted to sugar. What is funny is they just lowered the tax on sugar candies in North Carolina when they cannot get there hands on enought money even with adding a 1% temporary sales tax that they temporarily extended the first of the year.Bread sales are down because people are cutting carbs. When you get older and you have a decade of pondering on these things and know people that have their toes removed because of diabetes and then the next thing you know you see them in a wheelchair without legs, it gets to you. Just a child would do foolish things, an old person will change to preserve health and life.Actually, my only sugar in the house is Breyer's ice cream and I had bought the no sugar added vanilla when it was buy one get one free last week. I used to get one vanilla for coffee and one to eat. As I have tightened the screws, it was just two vanilla as when there is one to eat, it does not last long. What I was looking for was an ice cream that was made from soy. I told the woman I was surprised that there is not one soy ice cream.Now how the hell does this relate to cannabis. You should know. The baby boomers want healthy foods to keep on keeping on. I think that we will soon see hemp pancakes in the freezer section. Pizza is the biggest food in all the world and has every differentiation possible in the freezer section. That is almost true. They do not have hemp flour. The wheat flour is one less step down from eating sugar and that processed flour becomes a turn-off when you become concious of your health and the steps needed to protect it.I still have not gotten hemp seeds. It is more likely that I buy the flour not that I intend to start Virgil's Pancake and Pizzaria. With the most seriousness possible, I say I want hemp mayonasse. I am one step short of getting hemp oil and blending the egg in myself. It is all coming. People do not like paying big money to have their body parts removed. Maybe when the boomers retire and have time to think and act, this CP will end. Things are a'changing.
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Comment #47 posted by FoM on January 10, 2004 at 11:14:59 PT
E_Johnson It Sure Could
You're right. They didn't know why back then but they sure had the solution! PS: Life on the farm is kinda laid back ain't so! LOL!
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Comment #46 posted by E_Johnson on January 10, 2004 at 10:58:27 PT
Not enough cannabinoids?
Maybe too much nervous energy is another way of saying not enough anandamide in the brain?
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Comment #45 posted by FoM on January 10, 2004 at 10:41:57 PT
Too Much Nervous Energy
That's what was said when a young person was acting all wired for lack of a better way of saying it. The answer was they need to do some work and burn off that nervous energy and they'll feel better and calmer then. It worked for me. 
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Comment #44 posted by E_Johnson on January 10, 2004 at 10:41:38 PT
Exercise was a major theme of the seventies
Gosh it's all coming back to me now.Everyone was in such a hurry to get exercise, and back then we didn't know that it reduced cancer or heart disease.
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Comment #43 posted by E_Johnson on January 10, 2004 at 10:37:03 PT
I was really bad at tennis
So bad I've blocked it all from my mind!But yeah you're right, there was a tennis craze too.Did the weightlifting craze begin back then too? I think it started then too. I wonder if being exposed to pot had anything to do with people seeking a similar high by working out?
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Comment #42 posted by Virgil on January 10, 2004 at 10:33:19 PT
EJ, you forgot tennis
Everybody and their brother took up tennis after Billy Jean King beat Bobby Riggs. Cities went crazy building courts that would often follow into disrepair in the 80's. In the very late 70's handball courts were the most popular sports venues to be built.
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Comment #41 posted by E_Johnson on January 10, 2004 at 10:25:45 PT
I'm rethinking the seventies totally now
jose, thanks, and this made me think.What were the two bug huge fads in the seventies?Disco dancing and jogging.DOH!!! As Howard Simpson would say.Vietnam, nuclear buildup, Kent State, Patty Hearst, Watergate, the Controlled Substances Act, the DEA, the decline of hippiedom, the decline of the student left -- Americans of all kinds were very very stressed out.Suddenly the nation gets crazed to go jogging all day and go dancing vigorously all night.Maybe it was a national cannabinoid panic! Running, jogging, dancing, everyone furiously trying to raise their own cannabinoid level.And now I'm thinking about religions that forbid people from dancing.And about Sufism, the part of Islam where they worship by dancing and playing music, the part of Islam the Taliban tried to eliminate in Afghanistan.Hmmmmm...
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Comment #40 posted by afterburner on January 10, 2004 at 10:24:18 PT:
Re Virgil #29
"So Mr. Martin has been remarkably outspoken during the past month -- ...by saying that Washington should butt out of the marijuana debate (though the White House says it is solely concerned about Canadian smuggling);"If the White House is "solely concerned about Canadian smuggling," then the legalization of Canadian cannabis should be of no concern to either the US government nor to the Canadian government. Only cannabis legalization will at once ensure a legal supply to medical cannabis patients and to adult social and religious partakers. Drop the chant, "we're not legalizing, we're decriminalizing," Mr. Martin. There is no need for doubling sentences with mandatory minimums for cannabis trafficking (supply, distribution) and cultivation (gardening, production). In a legal environment provincial governments and municipalities are free to regulate and/or tax cannabis production and distribution, as they do with gasoline, alcohol, tobacco, and many other products. To fail to endorse legal cannabis production and distribution is to continue to allow the criminal element to profit from un-regulated, un-inspected, over-priced products. To fail to endorse legal cannabis production and distribution is to allow these adult and medical herbs to be sold to children by black market profiteers, along with dangerous addictive hard drugs. To fail to endorse legal cannabis production and distribution is to allow the growth of illegal dangerous and electricity-stealing grow-operations. To fail to endorse legal cannabis production and distribution is to allow gang warfare which can impact on law-abiding citizens. To fail to endorse legal cannabis production and distribution is to criminalize patients, providers, and compassion clubs just for caring about the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual healing powers of the "wonderful" plant, cannabis.Mr. Martin, if the White House is "solely concerned about Canadian smuggling," then just include penalties for smuggling (exporting) cannabis to any country maintaining a national prohibition of cannabis medicines or relaxants. From an international point-of-view cannabis legalization would also aid the UN goal to eliminate the use of illegal drugs in 5 years. If cannabis is legal, then Canada can reduce the number of illegal drug users accordingly. If other countries follow suit, the UN can be proud to reduce the population of illegal drug users around the world and come closer to their expressed goal.Medical Freedom Amendment in 2004: It's overdue. It was proposed in 1776 by Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington's personal physician, and first Surgeon General. Canada needs MFA, the USA needs MFA, the UN needs MFA.
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Comment #39 posted by jose melendez on January 10, 2004 at 10:00:50 PT
all kidding aside . . .
I want to say with a straight face that E_J's example in comment #10 worked wonders for this activist.
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Comment #38 posted by yippierevolutionary on January 10, 2004 at 08:43:03 PT
American Beauty Quote
Carolyn Burnham: Well, I see you're smoking pot now. I think the use of a sub-controlled drug is a very positive example to set for our daughter.Lester Burnham: You're one to talk, you bloodless, money-grabbing freak. Thats the quote from IMDB but I remember her saying psychotropic drug, hmmmmm.
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Comment #37 posted by yippierevolutionary on January 10, 2004 at 08:39:16 PT
American Beauty
Anyone seen it? I think it is a fantastic film, perhaps one of the best portrayals of Cannabis I have seen from a studio film. Cannabis totally changed his life for the better, along with exercise and being freed from work for a year. Cannabis was portrayed so positively im surprised the ONDCP didn't buy some marijuana horror story into the plot.PS The part about G-13 genetically engineered government weed was completely inaccurate. PPS You should download these Kucinich mp3's. One is one of his speeches set to a sweet beat. And the other is Kucinich Hip Hop.http://www.ursaminor.org/media/audio/kucinich-dub.mp3http://www.ursaminor.org/media/audio/Kucinich_WMD.mp3
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Comment #36 posted by W on January 10, 2004 at 08:26:51 PT
About the article
Coming to think of it, at times when I'm not stoned I always have this uncontrollable desire to cycle a lot (and as fast as possible). Hmmm...Anyone noticed the possible (very thin) link between this article and the symptoms of ADHD? Maybe I'm searching too far...
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Comment #35 posted by kaptinemo on January 10, 2004 at 07:13:29 PT:
GCW's latest link is more proof
of how the Feds have subborned control of the local police via the DrugWar...and why it's imperative for States to fight back.from the linked article; it's the very last sentence:*Vanatta said he spoke with a DEA official Wednesday who indicated that the officers will be represented by the U.S. Attorney's Office.*Get that? LOCAL police officers...will be 'represented' as if they were FEDERAL AGENTS by FEDERAL lawyers.But they are LOCAL police...are they not? They are not sworn to prosecute violations of FEDERAL law, only State Law.Sorry, but I have to keep making this analogy, in case of new readers coming here:If you have a guard dog, and want to make sure that guard dog stays under your control, *only you* are supposed to feed it, and not feed it too much, lest it get too big and begin to threaten YOU.But if your much richer neighbor wants to control the dog? He'll feed it nice, thick, juicy steaks when you can only afford to feed it kibble. Soon the dog's loyalties switch, and he's obeying your neighbor. It lives in your house, eats your food, and then eats the neighbor's steak as well. Soon the dog is menacing YOU at the neighbor's command. That's what Fed undermining of local control of local police
does. This has all happened before, with Nixon's execrable (and once disbanded and now, like Frankenstein's monster, revived) Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.This is a long one, but it illustrates very well what I am ranting about:
Militarized Law Enforcement: The Drug War's Deadly Fruit
by David B. Kopel
http://www.totse.com/en/politics/police/166860.htmlespecially juicy meat here:
The Hunt for Red Menace: - 8
http://www.publiceye.org/huntred/Hunt_For_Red_Menace-07.htmAnd, get this: a former Attorney General agrees with the idea that this has gone too far:
Federalism in Law Enforcement by Edwin Meese 
http://www.fed-soc.org/Publications/practicegroupnewsletters/criminallaw/cl020102.htmfrom the article:*In 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson appointed a crime commission which made a number of recommendations for a much larger role for the federal government. This led to what became known as the Omnibus Safe Streets and Crime Control Act of 1968. With that came a whole new administration in the Department of Justice, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. But even there, the emphasis was upon the federal government providing assistance to local law enforcement. To be sure, as with most things, the federal government gives, but it also attaches strings to what it gives. Therefore, a great many requirements were placed on the acceptance of these funds. Still, the primary emphasis was upon local law enforcement...and further on: There are many other problems when the federal government gets involved with local law enforcement and supplants or otherwise tries to take over the functions of local law enforcement. It violates double jeopardy. As you know, we have dual sovereignty and the fact that a person may be tried and acquitted for a crime in the state courts does not prevent him from being tried and perhaps convicted in the federal courts for exactly the same offense or exactly the same set of facts. We certainly had such a situation in the Rodney King case in California, where police officers were acquitted, and properly so in my opinion, by a jury in the state court. The federal government then decided to try them under federal statutes applied to the same set of circumstances and the same facts...and more: Federalizing crime undermines the idea that the states should be free to experiment with their own systems, to be in effect laboratories of government effectiveness. (In other words, MMJ! - k.) Furthermore, it shifts accountability, and as I mentioned, certainly confuses the citizens as to who is in charge. They don't know to talk to their local chief of police, the local sheriff, their local legislator, or to write their congressman when Congress keeps proclaiming that it is solving the crime problem or the president says he is the one who is putting 100,000 police officers on the street.*Of course, what Mr. Meese doesn't dare touch is the POLITICAL effects of allowing Feds to reach their tentacles deep into local and State affairs, undermining much, much more than just control of the local police monetarily by 'feeding' them Federally funded 'steak'. For all intents and purposes, it nullifies the States themselves, and places all law enforcement activities under Fed jurisdiction...which in turn nullifies the need for States themselves. Federallismuss uber alles, and forget the 10th Amendment and your State flag; Uncle's busy wiping himself with both. As well as your legal buffer between his demonstrated fascist designs and your rights.This case is VERY important, and will illustrate just how far the *de facto* corruption of the local control of police has gone...and how far the Feds will go to maintain that process.
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Comment #34 posted by The GCW on January 10, 2004 at 05:45:05 PT
County judge helps all judges by taking the Feds.
to task.Imagine disappointed Fed. judges thanking the county judge.oUS CO: Fines, jail possible for police Refusal to return pot could be costly Viewed at: http://www.craigdailypress.com/section/frontpage_lead/story/10848
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Comment #33 posted by freedom fighter on January 10, 2004 at 00:39:47 PT
Why? Dang dam it
Kiss my Arse!I always knew my mother milk contains those illict substances. She worked so hard like that jogger down on the road.No wonder!I am an addict!pazff
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Comment #32 posted by E_Johnson on January 10, 2004 at 00:25:04 PT
Semi Off Topic Casto banned the Internet from Cuba
People can't get online any more in Cuba by dialing through the government-owned phone service. It's so sad. My heart goes out to them.And to the journalists in prison for 20 years for being journalists.
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Comment #31 posted by FoM on January 09, 2004 at 22:11:31 PT
One More Comment On Canada
I in no way blame Canada for having the cow that had Mad Cow. I blame the feeding practices that caused it. I hope that our government takes the responsibility of this problem and doesn't try to pass it off on Canada like they always do. Blame it on Canada seems to be the way of our government.
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Comment #30 posted by FoM on January 09, 2004 at 21:40:26 PT
Virgil
My concern with Canada and The US is Mad Cow. I think almost everything might get put on the back burner but I could be wrong. This is such a serious issue and since the cow came from Canada it could stop our issue dead in its tracks at least for a while. I hope I'm not right.
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Comment #29 posted by Virgil on January 09, 2004 at 21:29:29 PT
Let's not forget the battle of Canada
I was reading this article at the Toronto Globe and Mail- http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040107/CODREW07//?query=marijuana It is about Martin and his agenda. It says the elections will come this spring. May 10th was the answer to my question at DU where the guy predicted the Liberals would win 199 of 301 ridings- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=993582My understanding is the Prime Minister's office for some reason is extremely powerful in Canada and of course the Liberals have a dominate position in the House. I do not see what force can hardly stop the "Strengthen organized crime bill" being marketed as a decriminalization bill.According to the article Martin and Bu$h will met Tuesday at some big deal in Mexico. Two of the relevant paragraphs from that article follow:Polling done for the Liberal Party points to the wisdom of Mr. Martin's cautious approach. Asked what they think should be Ottawa's foreign-policy priorities, Canadians put improved Canada-U.S. relations down the list, after the protection of Canadian sovereignty and the flexing of Canadian influence and values abroad. Canadians certainly are not fans of the Bush administration.So Mr. Martin has been remarkably outspoken during the past month -- by demanding in the Arar case that the United States "respect the Canadian passport" (while the White House responds that it did nothing wrong); by saying that Washington should butt out of the marijuana debate (though the White House says it is solely concerned about Canadian smuggling); and by expressing dismay that Washington has not opened up reconstruction contracts in Iraq to Canadian firms (highlighting once again that Canada opposed the war).
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Comment #28 posted by Virgil on January 09, 2004 at 20:27:41 PT
Sentencing of Worthington coffeeshop in UK
From http://www.hempcity.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=320&highlight=From the LCA exec The Worthing coffeeshop court case has finished and sentance has been passed. Chris Baldwin: 6 month sentence as a result of a previous suspended sentence of 15 months and 3 x 6 month sentences concurrent to that. The Judge has said he must not serve more than half of this (3 months) and that he had no alternative but to put him into custody. Winston Mathews: 4 x 4 months conditional discharge, including possession of 1/4 kilo of grass and 1/4 kilo of hash and 2 cases of selling £10 deals to undercover police in the coffee shop. Mark Benson: 6 months 12 hours curfew, for being involved with the running of the coffee shop. None of them got any sentence or punishment for possession or personal 
amounts or for the cultivation of plants for medical and recreational use. The Judge said "They should all be given credit for their guilty pleas" he 
accepted there was NO monetary motivation and accepted that they were all medical users and that they will probably continue to be, he said "Chris 
Baldwin was a sincere and honest person".
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Comment #27 posted by E_Johnson on January 09, 2004 at 20:20:49 PT
Quelle coincidence!
That's French for "What a coincidence!""The "runner's high" theory emerged in the United States during the running craze of the 1970s, when researchers discovered the brain's opiate receptors, which are proteins located on the surface of nerve cells."The running craze of the seventies... hmm let's see... marijuana was made Schedule I in 1970... the DEA was formed in 1973...And then everyone started running...Oh yeah, it all fits together.
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Comment #26 posted by Virgil on January 09, 2004 at 19:55:34 PT
GCW- We will save you
We will continue attack supply. We will continue to eductate the terrible harms so that demand will decrease. And as our biological engineering has developed a miracle drug, we will destroy the cannabinoid receptors in anyone that ever fails a test for laughing grass. The UN says we only have 5 years left to eliminate entirely all illegal drug use on the planet. It is time to get serious. Take this pill and it will protect you. It will be available for anyone upon entering the eighth grade so that they may never fall into the madness that comes with abusing laughing grass, much less this new super-uber stuff they now have to lure the children into a life of failure. CB1 and CB2 receptors can be destroyed with cherry, lemon, and orange flavors and these normally expensive miracle pills are free thanks to government wisdom needed and exercised to protect your children.
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Comment #25 posted by The GCW on January 09, 2004 at 19:42:35 PT
Fast Addiction.
Your honor, We submit to the court 2 pair of red Puma’s which indicate the alleged runner was a dealer… In one bag were spare shoe laces, which is consistent of runners stash, so they don’t miss a high. We have evidence the alleged runner may have been running in alleys within 500 feet of schools. Runners are found more and more, carrying consealed water bottles and Clif bars and are apt to go on to harder exercise with binges of over an hour.State officials are targeting gyms and high schools which still contain running tracks. Baseball, football and basketball control efforts will be escalated and improved Olympic movie and video bills will be introduced to congress. President Jeb Bush is pushing efforts to increase forfieture laws and expand minimum prison terms to joggers and bycyclists.To protect Your kids, cut off their freedom to walk and they will not run.
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Comment #24 posted by FoM on January 09, 2004 at 19:36:22 PT
Virgil
The Starland Vocal Band! That's the same tour we saw! I have Afternoon Delight on my computer! How cool!http://users.cis.net/sammy/starland.htm
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Comment #23 posted by Virgil on January 09, 2004 at 19:32:00 PT
FDA says they may sue to keep out imported pills
Two cities actually are already importing pills to reduce cost violating federal law at extreme risk when they abandon FDA protections. The pills from Canada could carry SARS or mad cow or the much dreaded eh? disease. It is hard to believe that someone in the FDA could spout the garbage in this article- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=716&e=8&u=/ap/20040110/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fda_mcclellan_interviewI saw John Denver in Charlotte about 1978 when his intro band had out the song "Afternoon Delight." I think that "Almost heaven, West Virginia" are the most amazing words of choice in the opening of any song.The NOW program was informative as usual. The fact that they are online for people to see once they find and seek good journalism is all but wonderful. The guy that used to be on "60 Minutes" and started the Center for Public Integrity was on telling about his book and the power of money in politics. He says it is supposed to be a country for the people and we have to take our country back.He said that in the last 3 election cycles that incumbent Congressmen or maybe just people in the House, are re-elected over 98 percent of the time. Once these guys get in office they gerrymander a district to insure their re-eletion as if money does not get behind an incumbent. They have name recognition and can claim experience. Things cannot change if an incumbent is re-elected like elections are a joke.There has to be call to Never Re-Elect Anybody. It has to be something that everyone can understand instead of saying it is all no use and stay home. Don't stay home. These guys have to be voted out. They are sitting in the taxpayer=paid dining room in Washington laughing at us like thay are eating laughing grass soup.
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Comment #22 posted by FoM on January 09, 2004 at 19:26:17 PT
DeVoHawk
I knew that's what you meant. That's OK. Have a nice night and stay warm. It's going down to 7 tonight here. It's really cold so we have the woodstove cranking.
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Comment #21 posted by DeVoHawk on January 09, 2004 at 19:23:51 PT
FOM- I never saw John
I had a couple beers tonight so I do not appear to be error checking very well. Anyway, the thought of a nice night sounds good on a cold Kansas night.Peace
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Comment #20 posted by FoM on January 09, 2004 at 19:14:04 PT

DeVoHawk
It was really a great concert when we saw John Denver. It was packed out and an evening I'll always remember. I liked Neil Young but always thought of him with Crosby, Stills and Nash. His Greendale Tour is very different and has a big following of people who love it and some that hate it. I appreciate an artist that will do what they want and to heck with what people think. They are the most creative and in the end bring us the best memorable music I think.
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Comment #19 posted by DeVoHawk on January 09, 2004 at 19:05:12 PT

Never Say John
I was never lucky enough to see John Denver. I did see Neil Young with Willie Nelson in 1985 with my Dad and brother. I did not know who Neil Young was at the time other than the guy who quit Crosby Stills and Nash but I really liked him and have ever since.
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Comment #18 posted by FoM on January 09, 2004 at 18:55:54 PT

DeVoHawk
Poems, Prayers and Promises is one of my all time favorite songs. We worked a concert years ago that had groups Like J Geils, Peter Frampton, Black Oak Arkansas and more I can't remember. We were on the red cross team and it was fun but we have only gone to two concerts and one was John Denver and the other was Neil Young.
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Comment #17 posted by DeVoHawk on January 09, 2004 at 18:44:34 PT

John Denver Songs I mean
No disrespect for John Intended, He was a great guy.
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Comment #16 posted by DeVoHawk on January 09, 2004 at 18:43:03 PT

John Denver is Next
That Rocky Mountain High thing should be illegal too. I get high just being in the mountains walking around and enjoying life. Up against the wall.
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Comment #15 posted by E_Johnson on January 09, 2004 at 18:13:56 PT

This could be really major
Maybe all of the other good effects of exercise come from cannabinoids.Exercise lowers the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, diabetes, so many things.
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Comment #14 posted by mayan on January 09, 2004 at 18:03:35 PT

Ultimate High
Running from the cops is the ultimate high! You tend to run faster & farther when your adrenaline kicks in! Actually, Bush will achieve the ultimate high when he is run out of town by the 9/11 victim's families and millions of other p*ssed off Americans! I wouldn't want to be him when he comes down though.The way out is the way in...Wesley Clark Calls 9/11 Assertions 'Lies':
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040109_1146.htmlFive impolite questions for the president:
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/opinion_columnists/article/0,1406,KNS_364_2563050,00.htmlPresident Served Friday With Personal 9/11 RICO Complaint:
http://www.tomflocco.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=38&mode=&order=0&thold=0NYC 9/11 Truth Takes Back Ground Zero: 
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/010404_nyc911new.html
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Comment #13 posted by FoM on January 09, 2004 at 17:33:32 PT

You're Right EJ
He sure does run. I never did figure out how he didn't get help when he choked on a pretzel. He should have made it to a door before passing out.
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Comment #12 posted by E_Johnson on January 09, 2004 at 17:19:48 PT

You know who is a runner?
George W. Bush runs a seven minute mile.
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Comment #11 posted by E_Johnson on January 09, 2004 at 16:56:16 PT

The corollary to I was right
I'm probably right about yoga too.I'll bet yoga is an excellent way to achieve a prologed and controlled release of anandamide.And by the way, wasn't it amazing foresight to call it anandamide?This is why pot works better with exercise and exercise works better with pot.
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Comment #10 posted by E_Johnson on January 09, 2004 at 16:52:39 PT

I was right! I was right!
Okay everyone back away and clear some space!I'm gonna do my I WAS RIGHT dance!I was right! I was right!I was right! I was right!Sorry... heh heh...I'm back to myself now.
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Comment #9 posted by goneposthole on January 09, 2004 at 16:47:03 PT

it had to happen
Nike shoes, athletic equipment are all paraphernalia. Ban all sports.sit down, be still, and don't even run to the bathroom. lol
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Comment #8 posted by FoM on January 09, 2004 at 16:24:14 PT

TroutMask
Oh could I tell you a story! I won't though! LOL! 
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Comment #7 posted by TroutMask on January 09, 2004 at 16:17:08 PT

Hmmm...
I guess streakers must really be high!:-)-TM
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Comment #6 posted by FoM on January 09, 2004 at 15:58:42 PT

yippierevolutionary
I'm sure you are right. I was in a competitive sport but the days of serious workouts are done for me. I've broken one too many bones and have retired from torturing myself and am just trying to live with the damage done now. I know that I did get a natural high though.
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Comment #5 posted by yippierevolutionary on January 09, 2004 at 15:52:54 PT

FoM: Answer
They are scared as hell of Cannabis and will grasp at the smallest straw for an "alternative"FoM you should try an eliptical machine. You can watch TV and stay inside and save your knees. It was an epiphany in my life.
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Comment #4 posted by yippierevolutionary on January 09, 2004 at 15:50:30 PT

The Eliptical Machine is the Best exercise around
it is zero impact so it is good for the knees, but is weight bearing so its good for you. A friend of a freind swears that good exercise is a prerequisite for enjoying cannabis. He claims that he gets anxiety when smoking unless he has done good exercise. Then it is pure relaxation. The best time of his life is when he is high and doing exercise at the same time.
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Comment #3 posted by FoM on January 09, 2004 at 15:48:09 PT

Question
Are they trying to imply that a person would have to torture themselves by running to get relief from pain or what does this sentence mean? No way would I hammer my bones like runners do.****He added that the findings could provide sufferers of glaucoma and chronic diseases an alternative to using marijuana for pain control. Use of the drug for medical purposes has been approved by voters in some states, but remains illegal under federal law and highly controversial in the medical community.
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Comment #2 posted by jose melendez on January 09, 2004 at 15:45:48 PT

Should we be arrested for exercising?
This story makes me wonder if drug criminalizers will attempt to arrest card carring YMCA members.Remember, kids:'Liberal, liberal, liberal' trumps 'Criminal, criminal, criminal'
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on January 09, 2004 at 15:30:07 PT

This Is Nice To Know
That means that a person could enjoy the same happy feelings that runners experience without the running. That saves lots of wear and tear on a persons body that happens to runners.
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