That's because the guys who smoke it are "thugs" and guys with "criminal" nervous systems... you know, people that don't really pay much attention to study and are just "nervous" and "rebel". You're probably going to say I'm not making much sense but if you think more, you'll see that I am.

They smoke it because their personality and mindset in life is about being "aggressive" and "defiant". So it's their nature that gives them hops, not the marijuana.

No, marijuana is not the monster its made out to be but if anything it would hurt your athleticism more than help it.  There are studies showing the negative effect it has on testosterone production, which is minute enough not to really bother someone with tons of naturally high levels to begin with, but for someone clawing for every advantage they can get it can be a negative.

1.) there are many many more people who smoke weed that are hideous in every aspect of athleticism than there are athletes who are elite speed/strength athletes who use it.

2.) Those people would have been great athletes either way, possibly even better had they not chronically used drugs.

3.) Getting arrested and drug chasing will negatively affect your training time, causing a further regression of athleticism.

.... as a positive you will care less about about your vertical jump and inherently either not worry so much about things that hold some people back like overanalyzing the fuck out of training, and there will be periods of time you convince yourself that you are much better than you really are so you will be happy anyway.

generalization of the year... HAHA..

that's kind of like saying, "because i have noticed that most every nfl athletes loves fried chicken and they have serious power".. regardless of the racial undertones, when I worked with nfl combine group (30+ athletes) in 2007, the most requested food item for their diet plan was fried chicken........... SO THAT GOT ME THINKING, could fried chicken be the missing link? dno but im eating fried chicken and smoking weed as we speak. jk

but no seriously, looking at things like that will really run a muck in your head, resulting in all types of completely misguided correlations..

people with great genetics can do all types of stupid shit and still perform impressively..

it's like when people look at elite level sprinters and talk about yams, ya, injectable yams.. get you some of those and then you might be on the right track in terms of correlating yams to performance, but they have to be injectable yams if you get what i'm saying.

peace

i outrun the cops and im white, just throwing that out there.

Hahaha

I like adarq/jcsbck's troll comments lol, basically most of this forum gives me a good laugh or two.

kinda on the topic of generalizations/conclusions, just watched a documentary type movie on the book "freakenomics"(read a little of it too). pretty interesting shit. Basically looking at why shit happens a certain way deeper than what is just generally accepted. For example, they concluded that in the 90's, the biggest factor in crime decreasing(where they thought it was going to be a huge increase) was due to Roe vs Wade, IE legalized abortion.  Prevented(or killed whatever way u want to look at it) kids being born into low income/poverty/bad situations. There fore once these kids are crime aged, they werent around to commit the crimes. Anyways, interesting read and interesting movie.