Reefer Madness with Dr. Staci Gruber

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🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Does weed make you faster? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice hash out the effects of cannabis with neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and director of the MIND Program Dr. Staci Gruber. Is smoking dope really doping?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:16.0	This is Star Talk Sports Edition.
0:19.0	Today, we're going to talk about weed.
0:23.0	Yeah, I said it. Marijuana.
0:26.0	What effect that has does should shouldn't have in sports.
0:31.0	And I got Gary Riley with me.
0:34.0	Gary. Hey, Neil. Good to be here.
0:36.0	All right. All right.
0:37.0	X footballer football as in soccer.
0:40.0	I guess round four round balls.
0:44.0	And Chuck. Chuck.
0:46.0	Yes. How do you have you do?
0:48.0	Yeah. X weed smoker.
0:51.0	That's weed smoker and and and and current weed smoke.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:58.0	Yeah.
1:00.0	Yeah.
1:02.0	So what we've got here today is other than Chuck having been a former weed smoker and possibly future one.
1:10.0	We don't have particular expertise in what role any of this plays in athletic competition.
1:15.0	So we combed our search our role of decks and we came back to one of our previous guests and.
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