Why Marijuana is on the WADA Prohibited List

comedyrel!ef wrote:

Bodybuilders sometimes use marijuana as a masking agent for steroid / testosterone use. Better to get 1 month for weed than 4 years for something else. Take a look at pictures of Richardson from her LSU days and from the trials. Look at the facial musculature, the triceps, etc. It looks like she is getting a little help from something other than protein powder in her smoothies.

LSU days:

http://thesportdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/richardson-05-19.jpg

Trials:

https://s31242.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-1324597957-1024x683.jpg

This idea of using it as a masking agent is interesting. I did a google search and did not come up with anything. (Will hit pubmed later). Just because they think it works as a masking agent does not mean it works. Remember the myth about sucking on a penny to beat a breathalyzer? Lots of people believed that!

Most workplaces do not allow this, either.

It is a bad idea, and some athletes find it helps them. I do not see the big deal in just following this rule.

The magic herb is a friend to humanity. While it can be abused by idiots, it has many benefits when used properly, as has been well documented. It is ridiculous to disqualify an athlete for using it.

It certainly is not a performance enhancing drug! As a kid, I ran a 9:35 two mile. A bit later at a low key summer meet, I ran a 10:01 after sharing a doobie with a friend. Hardly an enhanced performance!

Biden and Harris were two of the biggest supporters of that "war", neither one is doing anything about moving towards legalization since obtaining power.

hl wrote:

Most workplaces do not allow this, either.

It is a bad idea, and some athletes find it helps them. I do not see the big deal in just following this rule.

It’s a rule demonstrative of organizational bias and reflective of societal bias. Marijuana is less harmful, both physically and societally, in comparison to alcohol, but they don’t test for chronic alcohol consumption because it’s practically endemic. Even if pot is performance enhancing (and that hasn’t been sufficiently proven), it’s certainly not more so than many legal supplements. And more importantly, this is one of the events in which the effects would actually be a detriment. The testosterone rules are applied only to certain events (400m-Mile), so if this archaic prohibition is to be maintained, it should at least exclude events like the sprints.

YersiniaPestis wrote:

Biden and Harris were two of the biggest supporters of that "war", neither one is doing anything about moving towards legalization since obtaining power.

Yep. They realize how much more money they're making off of mass incarcerations. But really they just said that to get votes - i don't believe they ever had any intention to decriminalize it.

YersiniaPestis wrote:

Biden and Harris were two of the biggest supporters of that "war", neither one is doing anything about moving towards legalization since obtaining power.

DemocRats love war in all of it's forms: conventional, racial, cultural. It is all about power grabbing and let the bodies pile up while decrying "injustice!" Keeping cannabis illegal is just another part of their institutional High-pocracy (cue Kamala-Kackle)

Our society piles tons of money into sports. When I lived in Cleveland, OH, the Browns left for Baltimore and the city pulled out all the stops to build a new stadium to lure a Browns 2.0 franchise (for better or worse). At the same time, the much renowned Cleveland Ballet went bankrupt and liquidated. A front page picture on the Cleveland Plain Dealer had little girls in tutus waiting outside the ballet's rehearsal space unaware that the ballet had gone out of business and wouldn't be having any youth classes anymore. On the same page was the announcement that the City had reached a deal on a new publicly funded stadium to get an NFL franchise to return. Oh, and the City's public schools were in shambles.

The cannabis rule is nothing more than an attempt to make it seem like pro sports are serving a greater public interest by teaching kids that "umkay, drugs er bad." But there has never been a single kid in the world who was offered a joint and said "no thanks, this is a banned substance under WADA rules." Instead, what kids will learn from this is that if they have talent, work hard and make it to the highest level in sport, they can have it all taken away from them just under the false pretense that sport is looking out for the greater good in society. The message this send to young people is pretty clear. Don't even bother trying to make something for yourself unless you are willing to completely surrender yourself to every dumb rule that is going to be imposed on you. Anyone who dares to deviate will be ruined.

I see it differently.

I see the rule as stating:

'This is a banned substance. Its has side effects. It is a DRUG. Just don't use it and you'll be fine'

Sounds simple enough to me. A lot of people become emotionally involved and make a big deal about it.

At the end of the day it's very simple. This athlete is 1 athlete out of many. She broke a rule. She therefore has to accept the consequences of her actions. If anyone else broke the rule they would face the same penalty.

I don't think most people have a hard time passing up a joint when it's in their best interests.

Why is that argument not considered?

Marijuana is not performance enhancing in any way at all. Weed has positive and negative health effects but so much of the "old school" perceptions of marijuana stem from exaggerated reports on its effects, cherry picked horror stories about a lunatic who murdered his family and happened to be high at the same time and most of all, the War on Drugs propaganda that creates negative images of stereotypical stoners that older generations buy into so they can further project outdated values on other people.

Greg, I'm with you. I think we should send all potheads to Prison for life. My neighbor was a marijuana addict and he was extremely dangerous. Everyday he'd inject one marijuana after work and sit on his couch watching cartoons while eating ice cream until he fell asleep. I finally reported him to the local police as I began to fear for my safety. Luckily, the SWAT team got him right in the middle of one of his marijuana induced stupors. One less viscous dope fiend to worry about.

george orwell wrote:

The effective answer is to use violence and coercion to make USADA stop banning people from using marijuana in competitions.

I will do this by placing a bomb on the headquarters of USADA located in 5555 Tech Center Drive, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The bomb will go off at July 4th at 12 PM. It would make a great firework celebration for poor SOB that respond to the scene.

Seems excessive. Also I think things like this can be looked at as actual threats.

She might start eating her fingernails when she gets the munchies and choke to death.

Uncle Rico wrote:

My cousin Shane died from a marijuana overdose last year.

That's why I support it being on banned list. We must do something to fight this epidemic before it gets worse.

I don't think athletes should be banned for using pot, but if everyone smoked weed we'd be a third-world country. The two big stoners from my neighborhood as a kid turned into wards of the state -- amotivational syndrome and eventually full-boat SSDI.

Manual labor is good for the soul. Just say no, you work-shy slackers.

Up in Smoke wrote:

Uncle Rico wrote:

My cousin Shane died from a marijuana overdose last year.

That's why I support it being on banned list. We must do something to fight this epidemic before it gets worse.

I don't think athletes should be banned for using pot, but if everyone smoked weed we'd be a third-world country. The two big stoners from my neighborhood as a kid turned into wards of the state -- amotivational syndrome and eventually full-boat SSDI.

Manual labor is good for the soul. Just say no, you work-shy slackers.

Well, hell, I’m convinced. What’s your take on booze?

Ban Alcohol..

Ban Meat...

Ban Milk...

hell Ban everything except vegetables... wait... what chemicals were sprayed on the vegetables?

This nonsense has to stop. Who would want to live a life like this? watching everything you eat, vetting every burrito cart you see... for what?

And hell, marijuana has medical benefits that athletes, especialy runners could benefit from.