Monday, 6 August 2012

Performance enhancing dope: Should sport ban cannabis? (Reuters)

Nicholas Delpopolo (L) of the U.S. (blue) fights with South Korea's Wang Ki-Chun during the men's -73kg quarter-final judo match at the London 2012 Olympic Games in a July 30, 2012 file photo. Delpopolo has been expelled from the Olympic Games after testing positive for marijuana. Delpopolo, who had finished seventh in the 73kg judo event, accepted his expulsion, but said that the positive test had been caused by inadvertently eating food that he did not realise had been baked with the recreational drug. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/files

LONDON (Reuters) - The expulsion of an American judo player from the London 2012 Olympic Games on Monday after he tested positive for marijuana prompted scientists to question the sense behind the drug's inclusion on the World Anti Doping Agency's (WADA) banned list. Few experts think marijuana, or cannabis - whether it's eaten or smoked - can do much to enhance the kind of speed, strength, power or precision that Olympic athletes strive for. ...




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