The Rio Olympic Games, that is about to start this Friday, has already been marred by doping scandals. Russian athletes (among several others) are suspect of general doping of athletes to enhance performance.
As a start, the edge to check positive for marijuana was accumulated from 15 nano gram per milliliter to 150 ng/ml. This would, hypothetically, eliminate positive tests for those that had used marijuana within the weeds leading up to the games. throughout the London games in 2012, solely four tests came back positive for marijuana throughout competition.
One would assume that these vast developments would result in serious testing of Olympic athletes this year. However, the globe Anti-Doping Agency, that is responsible of control drug tests for all Olympic sports worldwide, has reportedly cared little concerning athletes use of marijuana outside the window of the Olympic games.
“Our data suggests that several cases don’t involve game or event-day consumption. The new strength is an endeavor to make sure that in-competition use is detected and not use throughout the times and weeks before competition,” aforementioned WADA exponent mountain Nichols.
Now that a lot of of the general public stigma of marijuana has dissipated and marijuana poses token health risks, the WADA should decide what quantity weight it still desires to put on a positive marijuana check, if they even wish to check for it in the least. On this terribly subject, NORML’s recently-resigned executive director Allen St. Pierre said, “So they quite raise the question … if we actually don’t believe overtly that this is often inflicting folks to game the system by developing larger athletic skills, shouldn’t we actually come back this.”
While several medication create their means onto the International Olympic Committee’s prohibited substances list for performance-enhancing qualities, marijuana was initial value-added for its unlawfulness in most of the globe. on the far side marijuana’s legal standing across the world, several officers believed smoking marijuana would hurt the “spirit of the game,” that is why it still remains on the prohibited list. The WADA uses 3 pointers to make a decision that medication are to be banned.
“It’s quite exhausting to imagine that cannabis ought to be thrown into that mixture (of prohibited drugs) unless it’s still viewed as an ethical transgression,” St. Pierre value-added. “Society doesn’t appear to look at it any longer as an ethical transgression.”
It’s exhausting to ignore that several Olympic athletes use marijuana as either a pain reliever or operation, as many of us with strenuous occupations do. 2 Olympic legends, specially, Jamaican track mavin Usain Bolt and american prize saver Michael Phelps, have each admitted to exploitation marijuana within the past, that clearly hasn’t hurt them too severely — or the “spirit” of their several sports.
