Column: The Olympics shouldn't test for cannabis — much less ban athletes who test positive

I must have been too busy in the winter of 1998 to pay attention to the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. I missed the story of the first snowboarder to win a gold medal, and the craziness that ensued after a drug test found a vanishingly small amount of THC in his urine.

Richardson’s punishment raised for the umpteenth time questions about why cannabis should even be on a list that includes anabolic steroids, stimulants and masking agents like diuretics, which make it harder to detect banned substances. Even If Richardson had gotten falling-down drunk instead of ingesting weed, she’d probably have competed Saturday in the women’s 100-meter final.

AbcarianLAT opinion The only way it would be a performance-enhancing drug is if they made painting an Olympic sport.

AbcarianLAT opinion How did she get turned into some type of hero over this

AbcarianLAT opinion Also raises questions about her IQ..she knew she'd be tested

opinion Neither should my employer… Yet they do. Freedom of choice; not freedom of consequence.

opinion One American athlete failed a test and the whole of the Olympics is wrong.

opinion If Sha'Carri was in the Olympics, I'd actually watch the Olympics

opinion Fuck it. Let’s not test for coke and any other drug come to that!

opinion The war on drugs has been proven to be a policy of oppression to keep people of color in poverty and to jail us. White people are all in the cannabis business but POCs still pay the price of stupid bias laws.

opinion Driving while intoxicated gets one the same charges as driving while stoned. Should running be different? It is still PI. And psychomimetic. It produces symptoms of schizophrenia asociality alogia, delusions and hallucinations. Like, wow man, look....a leaf..... far out.

opinion I mean, if she can smoke pot and still win a medal she should like, win another medal for that

opinion this is terrible news

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