Does smoking weed break down muscle?

[princ3]

um i have been smoking probly about 5 years and i know people that have for about 20 and this information you are talking about it scare tactics and i have never know any of this to be true i ama soccer player and i smoke, i still play to my full potental (though im never high at a game or practice)
leading my team in scoring and other team injuries lol and bact to back districs lol

[beachguy in thongs]

While Cannabis preserves cells, it doesn't make sense that it'd degenerate anything other than cancerous cells.

[BDubz26062]

weed does make u lazy..but i doubt it breaks down muscle

[sevkex]

in my experience with lifting weights and being a pothead at the same time i just got bigger and probably put on an extra few pounds of fat...id say not to worry about it harming your body in any way if you are such an active person, just eat healthy like everyone else has said. When i stopped lifting weights (it was a PE class in high school, im now in college) i went from 200 pounds to 160 in a matter of like 8 months, and I smoked a lot more weed in that time so it might make you skinnier, it might just be my metabolism though

[BigHomie]

Arnold Schwarzenegger used to smoke weed back when he was into competitive bodybuilding... of course he was using steroids too... I guess that doesn't prove anything... nevermind

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

it makes you skinny at most, it doesnt negate your muscles, it negates your fat.


not often i see a fat stoner, and if i do, they are light and casual users.

[BuD MaN]

when you smoke weed, your body uses up a shit load of all your vitamins and nutrients to process the THC , i dunno if that would contribute to muscles shrinking, but this process causes "the munchies", so your best bet would be to smoke up, get the chron munchies that you would usually put on weight with, but then go to the gym and turn that fat into muscle...i have tried getting fat but with my physical genetics its immpossible for me to get over 70 kgs, I duno what kgs is in lbs...You bloody Americans with your maveric ways...

[BuD MaN]

ill just add that Pot has zero caleries

[iamenfuego]

doesnt weed speed up ur motabilism so u can actually lose a lil bit of wieght if u dont eat when you have the munchies. this is just what a friend told me im not sure though.

[Crispyfried]

Marijuana reduces inflammation, so should help to prevent muscle breakdown. And people tend not to gain weight when they smoke marijuana, supposedly because they are more interested in smoking pot than eating. And stress increases muscle brakdown, so if pot relaxes you, that alone should help to preserve muscle mass, and you grow new muscle when you're sleeping, so if pot makes you sleeping then there is yet another way for pot to help you gain muscle. And less sleep is linked to obesity, so more pot and more sleep should help you to stay lean and strong as long as you get enough exercise and eat right.