The drug use an explanation for why....

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Tyler Smith (as well as the others, I've never seen so many missed layups by B.Will) is performing so poorly? Also, it's a known fact that pot heads lack motivation and focus.... Is it just a coincidence that several members on this team lack motivation and focus at times on the court?
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Hmm. Maybe "some" people can concentrate more when they smoke weed. :) Ever played guitar hero before you blazed one? Someone told me that was pretty neat.
 
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Shaun1985 said:
Hmm. Maybe "some" people can concentrate more when they smoke weed. :) Ever played guitar hero before you blazed one? Someone told me that was pretty neat.
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For sure - look at how well Chris Lofton shot, :thumbsup:.



Just kidding - or am I?

But being serious - no - to the OP... heck no.
 
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UT's#1Fan said:
Tyler Smith (as well as the others, I've never seen so many missed layups by B.Will) is performing so poorly? Also, it's a known fact that pot heads lack motivation and focus.... Is it just a coincidence that several members on this team lack motivation and focus at times on the court?
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possible, but one of my really good friends is possibly one of the biggest pot heads i've ever met and has one of the best gpas out of all my friends. doing that with a bcmb major isn't that easy.

sorry, had to get in a little defense for the stoners out there
 
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UT's#1Fan said:
Tyler Smith (as well as the others, I've never seen so many missed layups by B.Will) is performing so poorly? Also, it's a known fact that pot heads lack motivation and focus.... Is it just a coincidence that several members on this team lack motivation and focus at times on the court?
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Please....
 
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I don't think the missed shots by our guards is something that is new.......it killed us last year and it is killing us this year........
 
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I think it's a perfect explanation for why they lack motivation. It's a widely known fact that weed doesn't really harm the body...it just takes away your desire to do anything. Anyone who doesn't think it is even a possibility is delusional.
 
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jfrancis04 said:
I think it's a perfect explanation for why they lack motivation. It's a widely known fact that weed doesn't really harm the body...it just takes away your desire to do anything. Anyone who doesn't think it is even a possibility is delusional.
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Actually, chronic MJ smoking can have a number of harmful effects on the body, most notably on the heart and lungs. The popular notion that MJ smoke is free of carcinogens has been debunked, and the evidence is clear in the medical literature.

Of course, the most common problems caused by THC use are found in the CNS: "Amotivational Syndrome," anxiety, depression, memory impairment, and schizophrenia.

Of course, many people will relay a story of some brilliant friend who scored a 36 on his ACT and now studies at Harvard as "proof" that MJ is safe. But, this is the exception, not the rule. The evidence is very convincing that there are numerous adverse effects. To say that chronic MJ use would not affect an athlete's performance is, quite simply, preposterous.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Actually, chronic MJ smoking can have a number of harmful effects on the body, most notably on the heart and lungs. The popular notion that MJ smoke is free of carcinogens has been debunked, and the evidence is clear in the medical literature.

Of course, the most common problems caused by THC use are found in the CNS: "Amotivational Syndrome," anxiety, depression, memory impairment, and schizophrenia.

Of course, many people will relay a story of some brilliant friend who scored a 36 on his ACT and now studies at Harvard as "proof" that MJ is safe. But, this is the exception, not the rule. The evidence is very convincing that there are numerous adverse effects. To say that chronic MJ use would not affect an athlete's performance is, quite simply, preposterous.
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Interesting info there. I've never touched the stuff so I don't have a clue. I was just going based off what I had heard from people who used it. Thanks for clearing it up.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Actually, chronic MJ smoking can have a number of harmful effects on the body, most notably on the heart and lungs. The popular notion that MJ smoke is free of carcinogens has been debunked, and the evidence is clear in the medical literature.

Of course, the most common problems caused by THC use are found in the CNS: "Amotivational Syndrome," anxiety, depression, memory impairment, and schizophrenia.

Of course, many people will relay a story of some brilliant friend who scored a 36 on his ACT and now studies at Harvard as "proof" that MJ is safe. But, this is the exception, not the rule. The evidence is very convincing that there are numerous adverse effects. To say that chronic MJ use would not affect an athlete's performance is, quite simply, preposterous.
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Thank you!
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kiddiedoc said:
Actually, chronic MJ smoking can have a number of harmful effects on the body, most notably on the heart and lungs. The popular notion that MJ smoke is free of carcinogens has been debunked, and the evidence is clear in the medical literature.

Of course, the most common problems caused by THC use are found in the CNS: "Amotivational Syndrome," anxiety, depression, memory impairment, and schizophrenia.

Of course, many people will relay a story of some brilliant friend who scored a 36 on his ACT and now studies at Harvard as "proof" that MJ is safe. But, this is the exception, not the rule. The evidence is very convincing that there are numerous adverse effects. To say that chronic MJ use would not affect an athlete's performance is, quite simply, preposterous.
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This is the same medical establishment that still tells pregnant American women that they cannot drink alcohol at all for the entirety of their pregnancies, right? (Despite the fact that no effort has ever been made to establish what a safe level of consumption might be, and that European women drink for most of their pregnancies without any more ill effects than you see here, etc.) And which still refuses to discuss openly the salutary effects of alcohol on the heart with its patients?

I'm not a smoker (of anything), and I don't really have an axe to grind in this, but when the American medical establishment is so skittish about trying to establish safe levels of consumption of a legal, ubiquitous product like ethyl alcohol, then I really have a hard time taking seriously what their literature says about an illegal, vilified substance like THC.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Actually, chronic MJ smoking can have a number of harmful effects on the body, most notably on the heart and lungs. The popular notion that MJ smoke is free of carcinogens has been debunked, and the evidence is clear in the medical literature.

Of course, the most common problems caused by THC use are found in the CNS: "Amotivational Syndrome," anxiety, depression, memory impairment, and schizophrenia.

Of course, many people will relay a story of some brilliant friend who scored a 36 on his ACT and now studies at Harvard as "proof" that MJ is safe. But, this is the exception, not the rule. The evidence is very convincing that there are numerous adverse effects. To say that chronic MJ use would not affect an athlete's performance is, quite simply, preposterous.
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Do you believe everything you read?
 
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I'm fairly sure there was a study a few years back that estimated that 70% of NBA players smoked marijuana...so maybe it's not Mary Jane's fault that we can't hit a jump shot. Just sayin'.
 
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Shouldn't the weed relax the players, allowing them to concentrate better?
 
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TheSituation1218 said:
possible, but one of my really good friends is possibly one of the biggest pot heads i've ever met and has one of the best gpas out of all my friends. doing that with a bcmb major isn't that easy.

sorry, had to get in a little defense for the stoners out there
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yes, and once in a blue moon, someone survives a head-on collision with a tractor trailer while not wearing a seatbelt. There are always freakish exceptions to the rule..but why would one not want to pay more attention to the prevailing truth that weed, in regular users, gradually and steadily produces lazy-ass-brain-itis. There's a reason they call it dope.
 
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howboutaspoon said:
I'm fairly sure there was a study a few years back that estimated that 70% of NBA players smoked marijuana...so maybe it's not Mary Jane's fault that we can't hit a jump shot. Just sayin'.
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yes I remember it now. that study was conducted by the Smith, Goins, Tatum and Williams Research Foundation. I heard from my cousin's father's girlfriend's brother-in-law's uncle's dealer that it was a pretty accurate study. Just sayin'.
 
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Oh come on... it's not like their shooting was some sort of statistical anomaly in the entirety of college basketball. People go through slumps, I don't recall anyone blaming any hitting slumps among the baseball team on pot.

Fact is, unless those guys are lighting up within 2-3 hours of a game or practice, it probably didn't affect anything. Not trying to defend their actions, but those guys sure as hell weren't depressed... and demotivated people couldn't hack college and practice. And I'm pretty sure they aren't schizophrenic.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Actually, chronic MJ smoking can have a number of harmful effects on the body, most notably on the heart and lungs. The popular notion that MJ smoke is free of carcinogens has been debunked, and the evidence is clear in the medical literature.

Of course, the most common problems caused by THC use are found in the CNS: "Amotivational Syndrome," anxiety, depression, memory impairment, and schizophrenia.

Of course, many people will relay a story of some brilliant friend who scored a 36 on his ACT and now studies at Harvard as "proof" that MJ is safe. But, this is the exception, not the rule. The evidence is very convincing that there are numerous adverse effects. To say that chronic MJ use would not affect an athlete's performance is, quite simply, preposterous.
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that's why you buy the Volcano Vaporizer:

Volcano Vaporizer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Volcano Vaporizer is used for the consumption of cannabis. The primary advantage is that cannabinoids can be released without the toxic byproducts of combustion, thereby allowing the ingestion of cannabinoids while reducing the damaging health effects of smoking."
 
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I don't blame the parents, I blame the dealer. How can these non working atheletes afford pot? Discounts!!!!! I blame the dealers for giving discounts because they play ball. Shame, Shame
 
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lol. Wow. This thread should be put to sleep, excuse me while I blaze one. Hope I can focus the rest of the day
 
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I know that everyone has an opinion on this and there are exceptions to every rule, but I played on a high school basketball powerhouse (I was the Steve Pearl of my team albeit, not the coaches son). Every day I walked home with the starting guards who lived close to me and every day they smoked dope on the way home. They said it helped them unwind from practice. I was amazed as I was still huffing and puffing from running kill drills and they are firing up. One of them still holds the single game scoring record for the school. So, I guess the points that I was hoping to make are 1) they smoked, but not when it would affect their play 2) I was with them every day but didn't smoke, so is everyone that was in the car guilty by association?
 
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howboutaspoon said:
I'm fairly sure there was a study a few years back that estimated that 70% of NBA players smoked marijuana...so maybe it's not Mary Jane's fault that we can't hit a jump shot. Just sayin'.
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If the number was only 70%, the NBA must've sponsored the study. I would guess it is much higher than that.
 
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