San Francisco Is Set To Open The World's Very First Weed-Friendly Gym

Yahoo- This fall, San Franciscans will be able to get high while getting stole. A new gym called Power Plant Fitness will allow members to consume marijuana on-site while working out. It’s claiming to be the world’s first cannabis-friendly gym. “It won’t be a place to get high and just screw around,” Jim McAlpine, founder of the cannabis event series 420 Games and cofounder of Power Plant Fitness, wrote in a blog on the company’s website. “We are focused on the athletic side, not the cannabis side.” McAlpine’s other venture, 420 games, is like the Olympics for stoners. The company hosts athletics events nationwide, where pot enthusiasts and their families compete in triathlons, obstacle courses, mountain bike races, golf tournaments, and the signature 4.20-mile run. It launched in San Francisco in 2014. The gym (which is in the process of finalizing a lease) doubles down on the 420 Games’ mission: to reverse the lazy stereotypes about pot users. “We will be helping our members figure out how is best for them to ingest their cannabis,” McAlpine tells Tech Insider in an email. McAlpine says the facility will allow edibles and vaping on-site to start, and plans to add an outdoor smoking deck for those who actually want to smoke in the future. San Francisco city and county law currently prohibits smoking weed inside most public venues.

I hate any person who goes to this gym. Smoking weed and going to the gym aren’t two activities that need to be put together. I don’t mind if you’re a person who likes to workout. I don’t happen to be one of them but I don’t hate you for it. I also don’t mind if you’re a person who likes to smoke weed. I like to smoke weed on occasion so I obviously don’t hate people who do it. But I do mind if you’re a person who likes to smoke weed and then go workout. In the famous words of Dave Chappelle, that’s a waste of weed. Go to the park and people watch. Watch a funny movie. Sit on your couch and order $60 of Dominos. Working out while high has to be the biggest of buzz kill ever. And I realize that’s the point this gym is trying to make. They wanna fight against the stereotype that smoking weed is only for people who like to sit on the couch and order $60 of Dominos. But it just so happens that stereotype is 100% true. Sure, maybe there’s a percentage of people who love to work out while they’re high, and I absolutely believe those people live in San Francisco, but it’s a small percentage. All this really does is make people feel bad who smoke weed and don’t work out. Shameful.