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Marijuana remains on WADA's "prohibited list," even as U.S. states decriminalize it and major American sports leagues no longer punish users.
StarTalk sports edition: StarTalk hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, September 3, 2021 "We break down if the science supports the decision to not let Sha'carri Richarson compete in the Olympics after having tested positive for marijuana. What are the rules for banned substances? What gets a substance on the banned list?"
The NBA has removed marijuana from its list of banned substances, as has Major League Baseball. Earlier this summer, the NCAA announced it will no longer test Division I athletes for cannabis ...
The following are banned for in-competition use only, with the exception of cannabidiol (CBD) which is not banned for any use. [2] In 2013, the level of THC metabolite allowed was changed from 15 ng/mL to 150 ng/mL so as to only detect in-competition use. [11] [7]: 7 In cannabis (hashish, marijuana) and cannabis products
Just months after U.S. 100-meter champion Sha'Carri Richardson lost her spot at the Tokyo Olympics because of a positive cannabis test, the World Anti-Doping Agency made plans to review the drug's ...
In the late 1990s, the IOC took the initiative in a more organized battle against doping, leading to the formation of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in 1999. The 2000 Summer Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics have shown that the effort to eliminate performance-enhancing drugs from the Olympics is not over, as several medalists in weightlifting and cross-country skiing were disqualified due ...
Kamila Valieva was cleared to compete after a failed drug test, while other athletes, like Sha'Carri Richardson, were barred from the Games.
In competitive sports, doping is the use of banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) by athletes, as a way of cheating.As stated in the World Anti-Doping Code by WADA, doping is defined as the occurrence of one or more of the anti-doping rule violations outlined in Article 2.1 through Article 2.11 of the Code. [1]