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I have recently suffered a traumatic brain injury (tbi) - not unlike what may be common in football, hockey and other contact sports - and not exactly pleased with the medical response that there is no real treatment other than rest, I began doing some research and came across an open letter from a Harvard PhD to the NFL commissioner regarding cannabis and concussions, CTE and TBI. They focus on the CBD heavy variety and suggest it acts as a neuroprotector. Then a little more research I came across an Israeli study regarding TBI improvements in rats using cannabis, I even thought I found an article saying the Israeli military uses cannabis for treatment of soldiers and enemy combatants with TBI but I can't seem to find it now.

I'm not so sure about peds for competition or recovery, but if cannabis is considered a ped by various sports commissions and can be beneficial to brain injury that is a damn shame.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ae3gqe/the-nfl-sh...

http://www.timesofisrael.com/cannabis-could-treat-traumatic-...

If you have suffered TBI I highly suggest getting neurofeedback training to try and repair any possible damage caused to the brain by the injury. It is a very powerful tool to change the structure of your brain. Just make sure you find a specialist that can accurately create a profile for your particular set of circumstances and creating a special training program for that. I almost signed up for a borderline scam, but luckily found the leading expert in the field (She essentially pioneered Neurofeedback training).

Cannabis is not considered a PED (anyone who has taken Cannabis can easily atttest to that).

Cannabis is a problem due to other political issues which means it's illegal in most major sport playing jurisdictions.

It might be performance enhancing. I say that partially because marijuana may be a bronchodilator, but mostly because I know many college and some pro athletes who use marijuana. I can run a sub 11 second 100m while very high.

> Cannabis is not considered a PED (anyone who has taken Cannabis can easily atttest to that).

Cannabis is very, very, much considered a PED. It is banned in competition by USADA and WADA.

Anesthetizing effects, motor processing effects, lung performance, etc...

I will agree that most people most of the time are not smoking and becoming super athletes. I do not agree that athletic performance is unaffected by it and that it's consequences are universally negative. Hence the ban against using it in fair athletic competition.

To me, this doesn't seem to fall under performance-enhancing drugs as much as medication for injuries sustained in the sport.

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