Why cannabis is still a banned Olympics substance

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US sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson will be missing the Tokyo Olympics because she tested positive for marijuana during the US Track & Field trials. Tokyo2020 TokyoOlympics

Sha'Carri Richardson was banned for cannabis use, despite winning the US trials for her event

As punishment, the US Anti-Doping Agency banned her from competing for one month and expunged her qualifying victory. Although the 30-day suspension technically ended during the Tokyo games, US Athletics chose not to include her on the team.Joggers in Colorado run in support of Richardson "You have to take the big picture," he tells the BBC. "Yes anxiety levels go down, but in terms of actual physiological data, it shows that performance is reduced."

"They didn't want to get in social respectability trouble," says John Hoberman, a cultural historian who researches the history of anti-doping at the University of Texas-Austin. Uruguay was the first to make it legal to buy and sell marijuana for recreational use in 2013, with Canada following suit in 2018.

The runner told NBC News that she had used marijuana to cope with the death of her mother a week before the qualifier.

 

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