How Marijuana Can Be a Performance-Enhancing Drug, with Matt Barnes

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

If you want to trace the normalization of weed in sports and America, there is no better ambassador than NBA champion and "All The Smoke" host Matt Barnes. Taking gravity-bong rips to go full "Teen Wolf" in high school? Check. Beating drug tests in college and, uh, having a narc watch him pee — and poop! — during a test in the NBA? Yeah. Smoking with Woody Harrelson on his head coach's balcony, during the playoffs? Really. But the NBA came late to the cannabis party, as "more than half the league… from the superstars to the rookies" got caught in pro basketball's race-baiting, steroid-fearing war on drugs. In a new era of acceptance, marijuana might just help hoopers stop the next Kobe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.0	The wizenator is a lifelike prosthetic penis designed to simulate male urination.
0:11.0	It is very easy to use and available in white, black, and Latino skin tones.
0:15.2	Right after this ad.
0:19.2	You're listening to Draft Kings Network.
0:35.9	Six months, 82 games, and finally the post-season is here. First up, the So-Fi NBA play-in tournament. For this, the rules are simple. When to get in. Eight teams battle to earn
0:40.3	their playoff spot in a win or go home style tournament that is bound to be full
0:44.4	highlights, excitement and drama.
0:46.8	There's no better way to set the tone for the playoffs than this.
0:49.5	So make sure you don't miss the action.
0:51.3	Watch TNT's coverage of the so-fai
0:53.0	NBA play and tournament on April 16th and 19th on TNT true TV and Max So Matt, I've been wanting to do this for a long-ass time. I've been wanting to do this for a long-ass time. I've been planting the seed as it were that I want to an episode with you specifically about the question of
1:14.0	whether marijuana can be a performance enhancing drug.
1:17.3	Okay, you're a guy I mean I assume you smoke today.
1:21.3	Mm-hmm. Yeah, today, yeah absolutely.
1:23.0	I'm pretty high as we speak right now.
1:24.9	Very good.
1:25.5	Yes.
1:26.5	I am jealous.
1:27.9	And for people who don't know, and I hope they do know already your reputation,
1:32.3	but how would you describe the sort of
1:33.9	player you were in the league? Probably like 3 and D before the there was
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