Last week, we heard from the cyclist Floyd Landis.

He won the Tour de France in 2006, but was busted almost immediately after for doping.

This is going to sound stupid out of context, but it just felt unfair.

Like, I'm one of everyone else doing what we do. Within the game we were playing,

I was not breaking the rules. We also heard from the founder of the enhanced games. That is an

upcoming competition where doping, or at least what we have historically called doping, is

encouraged. Are we going to say, oh, you know, what, we will limit ourselves to being humans 1.0

and never try and progress?

We started down this path because of an email I got from a company called Athletic.

It's spelled A-T-H-L-E-T-H-C.

In case you're not familiar, THC is the main psychoactive component of cannabis.

The company sells what they call ridiculously tasty microdose THC mints.

They're supposed to help athletes with everything from power to recovery.

Their website includes a quote from basketball great Kevin Durant saying how cannabis helps

him get into that flow state

where everything just clicks. There's another quote from UFC fighter Nate Diaz,

extolling the benefits of cannabis for mental focus and relaxation. These are not testimonials for

athletic, by the way. They're just quotes from elsewhere that the company is using.

But the whole pitch got my attention because until now, I had not heard any claims that cannabis

is a performance-enhancing drug for athletes. In fact, quite the opposite.

You're imagining someone with a bong, sitting on a couch, eating Doritos. You're not thinking of someone

eating healthy and exercising. So it made me wonder, well, it made me wonder a lot of things.

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