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There are multiple substances on the banned substance list that aren't performance-enhancing. There are reasons for it.
So you could say that Willy was cajoled by the current system into faking a urine sample. Given that what he had ingested
does not make you a supreme athelete
does not make you a supreme athelete
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I am generally driven by logic. I can understand why some recreational drugs could give you a short-term edge on a game day. I am just baffled about why cannabis might on there.
Agree completely that if it's a banned substance he's an idiot and deserves the suspension coming his way. Just trying to figure out the 'why' of it all.
Agree completely that if it's a banned substance he's an idiot and deserves the suspension coming his way. Just trying to figure out the 'why' of it all.
Totally ridiculous ... and I saw Bob Marley in 1978 at the Horden Pavilion ... the joints the band members were handing around among themselves during playing was hilarious
As stated here, while it's not always performance enhancing it can have that effect for some athletes therefore it's banned.
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Marijuana FAQ | U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)
Find answers regarding marijuana’s position on the Prohibited List, its adverse effects on athletes, & information on marijuana legislation in the U.S.A.
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As stated here, while it's not always performance enhancing it can have that effect for some athletes therefore it's banned.
Marijuana FAQ | U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)
Find answers regarding marijuana’s position on the Prohibited List, its adverse effects on athletes, & information on marijuana legislation in the U.S.A.
Cheers - that’s interesting.
As stated here, while it's not always performance enhancing it can have that effect for some athletes therefore it's banned.
Marijuana FAQ | U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)
Find answers regarding marijuana’s position on the Prohibited List, its adverse effects on athletes, & information on marijuana legislation in the U.S.A.
Wow! it comes from the USA
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Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Their puritanical prohibitionist mindset at work again.
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Eh - 11 states allow legal use of pot and 33 have medicinal usage legalised. Compare that to Australia where the debate would never get raised by either of the major parties.
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Nope. Though it could explain why he was so relaxed and never hurried on the field.
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Could also explain why the Riolis seem to exist in their own universe when on the field.
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I'm tipping he got blazed the night before the game in order to get a good sleep, or something along those lines. It would have remained in his system, and that's what they picked up in his sample.
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Best game of footy I've ever played was after crushing a few cones.
Was on AFL Live 2004 on the PS2.
Was on AFL Live 2004 on the PS2.
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Federally its a different issue, and that goes for their foreign policy regarding it too.
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Detectable for up to 28 days so really debatable whether any was “in system”
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Sometimes the benefit or enhancement comes from a decrease in compromising responses.
In the NBA, many players who suffer either anxiety or emotional disorders use weed to sublimate a negative physical reaction and allow them to play in 'lesser stress'. Thus allowing better performance.
In NFL, well, that easy. Including the above issues, being able to reduce pain allows the athlete to go out and physically extend themselves where pain might normally pull them up, or have their minds conflicted and thus unable to react instinctually.
I've got another interesting one actually....I grew up around guns and the world of competitive shooting. Long family connection going generations and my 9th birthday present was an Olympic Air Rifle. Anyway.....
Shooting comes down to controlling breathing and heart rate to produce the least movement made by the body that takes your line off target. For years some of the elite guys used beta blockers to lower that response, but some others used cannabis for the same effect.
Anyway, I reckon the weed is an incredibly useful drug with varied benefits for our species.
Just needs regulation so that THC levels do not end up with the super strains now going round, and which overwhelms many of the positive aspects to it's judicial usage.
...Ugh, took me a long time to post the above and in that time much more succintly discussed in the linked to posting from US...
Anyone who remembers Geoff Hayward of Collingwood playing on the giggle weed, will understand the effects of having a few tokes before a game. Worst performance I’ve seen from a senior level footballer in all my years of following the game.
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The ‘28 days’ really depends on a lot of circumstances.
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