Fitness

The New Runner’s High

Your land can tag along the gym: Exercise can cause pot smokers supplementary catch, according to a recent Australian study.

The researchers asked smokers who light up at least once a day to refrain from weeds for 24 hours and then tested the blood levels of participants before and after they played 35 minutes of cardio. Results: The levels of THC (the psychoactive component of marijuana) were 15 percent higher in the analysis of post-exercise blood, and even in people whose BMI is above average.

What gives? "Exercise stimulates fat metabolism, and we believe that this process provides THC fat cells and blood," said one of the authors of the study, Jonathon Arnold, Ph.D.

Although researchers do not know if the tips will actually make you feel a large study did not measure the perceived drunkenness and THC affects everyone differently levels were sufficient to fail a drug test. (Although the legal blood levels of THC are currently a subject of debate in states like Colorado and Washington).

You probably do not face drug testing more often. But this study is just another example of how what you put in your body affects you, even long after you do. THC can remain stored in fat cells for weeks, the researchers say. Why pot is generally considered a relatively safe substance