Photo: 420 Games
Some people smoke weed and get overwhelmed with anxiety. Others inhale the burning plant and want to go to sleep. While others take a puff of the dank and get endless amounts of energy. For those people, a new gym is opening in San Fransisco this fall that will cater to the workout stoner.
“It won’t be a place to get high and just screw around,” said Jim McAlpine, a co-founder of the new Power Plant Fitness gym. He also created the 420 Games for weed users. “We are focused on the athletic side, not the cannabis side.”
The 420 Games consist of triathlons, obstacle courses, mountain bike races, golf and the 4.20-mile run. It started in 2014 in San Francisco as well.
The gym will do an assessment to see how much pot is the right amount for customers to use to give them the optimal performance lift to enhance their workouts. The gym will allow vaping and edibles and plans to provide an outdoor smoking area for those that prefer to intake the plant that way.
Recreational marijuana use is still illegal in California–although the LA Times reported today that making it legal would create at least $1 billion dollars in revenue for the state every year. To sell it, Power Plant would have to register as a dispensary lounge. And that would only allow for medical marijuana users to buy product. It isn’t clear how the gym hopes to completely bypass the law to satisfy all its customers. But by the fall, when McApline and investors plan to open the gym, the plant may have already been legalized in the November election.
