‘I get high to exercise’: How cannabis became the gateway drug to fitness

February 24, 2022

In a recent survey of 600 cannabis smokers by science journal Nature, four out of five respondents admitted to lighting up just before exercising. “Bring your own bud” and “cannabliss” exercise classes have started sprouting up in the UK and US, and there’s a budding trend in influencers who pair weed with their workouts. Not to mention multiple Reddit threads and YouTube videos of people smoking up and then attempting to do Yoga With Adriene. JOE