Marijuana Users Are Nearly 5 Times As Likely To Regularly Exercise Than Eat Fast Food, Stereotype-Busting Survey Shows

Marijuana consumers are more than three times more likely to regularly
exercise than drink alcohol—and they’re nearly five times more likely to
routinely work out than eat fast food—according to another
stereotype-defying survey.

The poll from the cannabis telehealth platform NuggMD looked at the habits
of cannabis users, who were asked about the frequency they engage in seven
different activities—from alcohol consumption to movie theater attendance.

One of the takeaways was that marijuana consumers reported regularly
engaging in exercise (27.4 percent daily and 34.9 percent multiple times
per week) significantly more often than using alcohol (6.1 percent daily
and 11.3 percent multiple times per week).

Another finding from the survey was that cannabis consumers are 4.8 times
more likely to regularly exercise than to eat fast food (1.5 percent daily
and 11.5 percent multiple times per week).

“This finding is yet more evidence that today’s cannabis consumers defy the
prohibitionist stereotype of layabouts munching Doritos and then
crossfading with booze to get their fix,” Andrew Graham, head of
communications at NuggMD, told Marijuana Moment.

“The data shows that cannabis consumers self-report several healthy
lifestyle habits. When compared with federal data on exercise and fast food
consumption, our poll shows that cannabis consumers are in fact more likely
to exercise and less likely to eat fast food than the average U.S. adult,”
he said. “Previous polling we’ve done shows cannabis has a distinct
replacement effect on alcohol use, and this poll charts a similar
direction.”

“For millions of wellness-focused Americans, cannabis is simply part of the
routine. It’s kind of mind-blowing how wrong the prohibitionist crowd is
about everything,” Graham said.

Several other studies have similarly found that cannabis users exercise at
average or above-average levels compared to non-users, bucking the
long-held stigma that marijuana makes people lazy. This is one of the
latest data points to show the same.

Notably, the new poll also found that relatively few marijuana consumers
frequently use food delivery services, with just 3.3 percent reporting that
they order delivery daily and 8.3 percent saying they use such services
multiple times a week.

Via NuggMD.

In contrast, 69.5 percent of respondents said they drink coffee regularly.
Only 4.5 percent said they often visit movie theaters. And 64.8 percent
said they routinely take nutritional supplements.

The survey from NuggMD involved interviews with 603 cannabis consumers,
with a +/- 4 percentage point margin of error.

Meanwhile, last year a study found that marijuana consumption prior to
exercise can lead to greater enjoyment and an enhanced “runner’s high.”

Another study published in 2023 surveyed 49 runners and found that
participants experienced “less negative affect, greater feelings of
positive affect, tranquility, enjoyment, and dissociation, and more
runner’s high symptoms during their cannabis (vs. non-cannabis) runs.”
Participants did run 31 seconds slower per mile when using marijuana, but
researchers said that was not statistically significant.

The positive effects of cannabis that the runners reported is consistent
with the findings of a 2019 study, which found that people who use
marijuana to elevate their workout tend to get a healthier amount of
exercise.

Older people who consume cannabis are also more likely to engage in
physical activity, according to another study that was published in 2020.

Similarly, in another stereotype-busting study that was published in 2021,
researchers found that frequent marijuana consumers are actually more
likely to be physically active compared to their non-using counterparts.

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