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Monthly Archives: January 2021

UFC Will No Longer Punish Athletes For Marijuana Use

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On Thursday, the UFC and U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced that it would no longer punish athletes for positive cannabis tests. Positive tests will no longer be considered a violation to the policy “unless additional evidence exists that an athlete used it intentionally for performance-enhancing purposes.” What the UFC is saying about marijuana use UFC […]

NBA May Permanently End Cannabis Testing Among Players

NBA May Permanently End Cannabis Testing Among Players

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the NBA enacted a temporary policy to end cannabis testing among players during the 2020-2021 season. This past week the league’s commissioner, Adam Silver, said the temporary ban may become permanent. Will the NBA stop testing for cannabis among players? Silver told NBS’s Today Show, “We decided that, given all the […]