Exploring Cannabis & Exercise

Hello and Welcome back to Exploring Cannabis and Exercise. The podcast where the anecdotes meet the data. Today I hope you enjoy this conversation with Kelly Haines (@kel_yeah13). We talk about the evolution of cannabis acceptance in the midwest, nerding out over excel spreadsheets to figure out the right cannabis product for us, how we think about muscles during lifting, body building, and how to create non-toxic workout spaces in general and for trans people specifically. Also -...

Hello and Welcome back to Exploring Cannabis and Exercise. The podcast where the anecdotes meet the data. This week I am so excited to highlight Vanessa Stallsmith Shapiro who is a doctoral candidate at Colorado State University and currently seeking participants for her dissertation exploring how cannabis influences the experience of physical activity in people who use cannabis regularly but are not very active. She will talk about how the study came to be, what’s expected of the parti...

This week I am finally sharing a much over-do episode I recorded with Alex and Penny from Smoke Tower when I visited Sweden last summer. This store in the outskirts of Stockholm is the first headshop in Sweden - tirelessly working on changing the culture, educating the public, and providing cannabis to people. We talk about the difference between Swedish and American cannabis culture, Swedish sport, and you’ll even learn how to say the word “stoner” in Swedish. So if you're like me and thinki...

Have you been watching the Olympics too? Weed has been on the list of banned substances for athletes in the Olympics decided by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). This week Dr. Jonny Lisano, PhD Candidate Liz Thompson (@trainwith.maryjane) and I talk through the three criteria WADA uses to determine banned substances in international sport competitions and why they put weed on the list. We also talk about what we need to do as cannabis and sport & exercise researchers & educators be...

Hello and welcome back to exploring cannabis and exercise! The podcast where the anecdotes meet the data. This week I am so excited to share my conversation with Dr. Laura Stewart - professor in the department of Kinesiology, Nutrition, & Dietetics at University of Northern Colorado. I met Laura at the ACSM Rocky Mountain meeting in Spring of 2021 where we gave two out of the three talks that day about cannabis and exercise and saw her again at the Cannabis Research Conference last summer...