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Meanwhile Sha'Carri (US running) was DQ'd previously for having THC in her system. Still trying to wrap my head around how pot can help you run faster.
They weren't concerned about CBD or anything else, just the psychoactive THC.
In general things that can calm your nerves in the run up to a very stressful sporting event are banned since forever.
I can tell you as someone who used to compete at a way lower level than these folks but still way beyond the average person that nerves have a huge impact on your body and therefore performance so it does make sense.
I'll leave you to infer yourself how the human body responds to extreme stress and how that might affect performance. :)
That would make sense if they were looking for CBD, which is the chemical that causes the relaxing effect of weed, not THC which more or less just gives the "high" feeling. You can easily get CBD from hemp and WADA actually removed it from their ban list in 2019.
There are also plenty of allowed substances that can help you relax, even prescription-only. They would have to ban things like; alcohol (never gonna happen), dramamine (antiemetic), diphenhydramine (antihistamine), gabapentin (anticonvulsant, Rx-only), etc... These, while primarily used for other purposes, all are occasionally used for their sedating effects and to my knowledge are all allowed.
There was also the argument that while yes, it does help with relaxing, it will actually decrease performance on the whole.
I actually think all the stuff you listed could give an unfair advantage depending on the sport.
When I was a kid alcohol was a huge aspect of professional snooker but it got banned. Like they would be having pints while waiting to take their shot. I take diphenhydramine to help me sleep occasionally and I could see that giving a very slight advantage depending on the sport too.
My own sport relied on reflexes being on point so I'm no expert on relaxants. It's definitely a very tricky business.
Lol, when I used to go out to bars and play billiards before covid, there was a point between 1.5 and 3 beers where I couldn't miss a shot
THC is illegal in most of the world still. It's like how testing positive for cocaine probably isn't good for your odds.
They don't really mention if it's illegal or not to their reasoning. They only use three parameters for the decision.
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They argue for points 2 (health risk) and 3 (commonly abused), both of which cigarettes and alcohol fit right in, but are unrestricted.
Why, exactly, do you think THC and cocaine are illegal for recreational consumption in most of the world? Someone decided one day that they really didn't like the way it looks?
Cultural imperialism and racism, really. The US was the driving force behind the war on drugs, and boy were our drug laws not passed to do anything except oppress inconvenient demographic groups.