Gamers: Cannabis and video games go together like coffee and reading. Its a common theme in most modern comedy movies, gamer on couch with bong on table, a new American cliche. It is funny because its true. Now if you haven't seen a good gamer negotiate a first person shooting game, let me tell you that you would be hard pressed to just keep up visually. Or watch a real time strategy game and see a person manage dozens of different units real time is amazing. The speed and accuracy of the shooters and action games, the multi-tasking of the Real Time Simulation requires the brain, vision and reflexes to be at optimum efficiency What do a lot of these gamers take besides caffeine Just check the screen names of the leaderboard and you'll see many references to 420, bud, chronic etc. What would the study results be if this group was used as subjects? I think any of these players would be able to keep a car in traffic lanes, operate basic equipment and cook with no problem.
NBA: Charles Oakely stated that 60% of players play high. In one of the most athletically demanding sports, if you listened to the critics, players would be throwing up airballs, losing their dribble, stumbling etc.
At that level with millions of dollars in contracts on the line, would a player risk a poor performance just to be high during game. Of course not, if you have ever shot a basketball while high your accuracy can actually increase. The level of skill that these players exhibit proves that they are not experiencing any loss of coordination or concentration. In a 2010 interview josh Howard said, "Every pro athlete knows NBA players smoke weed." A study on how cannabis affects the coordination of these guys would be interesting.
One of the most dangerous road on the planet is the Karakoam road in Pakistan. They must negotiate horrible narrow roads, flash floods, landslides, oncoming trucks and "death tunnels" to reach a a particularly tough section up a mountainside. The level of skill and concentration the bus and truck drivers must possess far surpasses what's required on city streets. The lives of many are in these drivers hands daily and only a few are skilled and brave enough to make the trip. What does a driver with these kinds of demands take to safely navigate these precarious roads? Strong coffee? Amphetamines like the U.S. truckers? Energy drinks? As documented on the History channel and the book "Three Cups of Tea" , the drivers partake in bowl after bowl of hashish. Of all examples this exposes the fallacy of cannabis and loss of coordination and concentration. These guys have their lives and the lives of their passengers in their hands. To help insure the safety of everyone these drivers are ingesting a concentrated form of cannabis How would these drivers or the examples listed above fare under a cannabis and coordination study? An educated guess would be that they would do pretty well...
Many of these users if asked would state that cannabis actually helps improve their concentration and reaction time. When a cannabis user states this in comments section they are immediately scoffed at and dismissed.Its that kind of closed mindedness is what got us in this prohibition predicament to begin with and prevents any logical debate or legitimate studies on the matter. Which does a great disservice to users and non-users alike.
At that level with millions of dollars in contracts on the line, would a player risk a poor performance just to be high during game. Of course not, if you have ever shot a basketball while high your accuracy can actually increase. The level of skill that these players exhibit proves that they are not experiencing any loss of coordination or concentration. In a 2010 interview josh Howard said, "Every pro athlete knows NBA players smoke weed." A study on how cannabis affects the coordination of these guys would be interesting.
One of the most dangerous road on the planet is the Karakoam road in Pakistan. They must negotiate horrible narrow roads, flash floods, landslides, oncoming trucks and "death tunnels" to reach a a particularly tough section up a mountainside. The level of skill and concentration the bus and truck drivers must possess far surpasses what's required on city streets. The lives of many are in these drivers hands daily and only a few are skilled and brave enough to make the trip. What does a driver with these kinds of demands take to safely navigate these precarious roads? Strong coffee? Amphetamines like the U.S. truckers? Energy drinks? As documented on the History channel and the book "Three Cups of Tea" , the drivers partake in bowl after bowl of hashish. Of all examples this exposes the fallacy of cannabis and loss of coordination and concentration. These guys have their lives and the lives of their passengers in their hands. To help insure the safety of everyone these drivers are ingesting a concentrated form of cannabis How would these drivers or the examples listed above fare under a cannabis and coordination study? An educated guess would be that they would do pretty well...
Many of these users if asked would state that cannabis actually helps improve their concentration and reaction time. When a cannabis user states this in comments section they are immediately scoffed at and dismissed.Its that kind of closed mindedness is what got us in this prohibition predicament to begin with and prevents any logical debate or legitimate studies on the matter. Which does a great disservice to users and non-users alike.
