Cannabis – a sporting life

Everyone knows that in a football scrum, anything goes. Eye-gouging, crotch grabbing. And a host of other eye-watering unmentionables!

No wonder the guys are sore when they come off field. Sore and injured. And sore and injured players need time to recover. Time to recover costs money.

Well, earlier this year NFL announced it’s funneling $1 million into research on whether cannabis can provide pain relief and speed up recovery time.

Obviously, some players have been trying this out in a clandestine way for decades. But now researchers are openly testing the benefits of post-game weed.

The study is led by doctors from the University of California in San Diego and will focus on professional rugby players who have similar injuries to American football players. Athletes who experience pain after a game will be assigned one of four vaping treatments.

One involved THC, another is CBD, the third is a combination of THC and CBD, and the fourth is a placebo.

A medical team will then follow up with the athletes via phone apps in the subsequent 48 hours regarding their pain experience, sleep, mood, along with other physical and mental changes reported. Among the primary aim of this clinical trial is to assess the therapeutic efficacy and adverse effects of THC, CBD, and combined THC/CBD compared to a placebo on relief of post-competition injury pain in elite athletes.

Bringing together a research team with decades of clinical cannabis research experience and an infrastructure provided by the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, the specific goal of the project is to determine whether cannabis/hemp based cannabinoids can be used safely and effectively for pain management and, most importantly, to reduce the use of prescription medications including opioids in post-concussion syndrome athletes and soft-tissue injuries.

Chief NFL Medical Officer declared that with this research the NFL wants to ensure that their players are receiving care that reflects the most up-to-date medical consensus.

It’s true though that many restrictions are still common in elite sports, and the use of cannabis in competition if controversial. Indeed, the Olympics ban cannabis outright as we have seen from some high-profile suspensions.

But as cannabis has become increasingly legal, many athletes have spoken out about the benefits of a nice post-game spliff.

On the pages of Maraijuana Games, we’ve already spoken about medical cannabis , we’ve also campaigned for the legalization of cannabis tourism. We’d be overjoyed to see sensible, scientifically-based research point out what many tokers already know – Marijuana helps pain management whether you’re an elite athlete or just an ordinary Joe with normal day-to-day pain.

All in all that brings us  to the point where Marijuana Games is interested.

If you’ve been jogging around the Retiro in Madrid , or have been cycling along the front at Barceloneta beach in Barcelona and fancy a post-exercise smoke, we can help you find a legitimate private cannabis social club in Madrid or a legitimate private cannabis social club in Barcelona.

If you’re wondering what the legalities in Spain, click here.

Meanwhile, let’s hope research projects like this help not only elite athletes to recover more rapidly from their injuries, but also to destigmatize cannabis and lead to more generalized cannabis legalization .

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