Ex-NHL player: Let’s clear the smoke on the NCAA’s cannabis policies

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Riley Cote: Athletes do not consume cannabis to gain a competitive advantage, but rather for various individualized personal or medical reasons.

ByIn early June, the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports announced its overwhelming support for removing cannabis from the association’s banned drug list, as well as altering testing protocols.

NCAA divisions referred these issues to the CSMAS by asking to consider factors for the association’s cannabis policies.

As discussions surrounding the potential removal of cannabis from the NCAA’s list of prohibited substances gain traction, its impact on collegiate programs in New Jersey, such as Princeton, Rutgers, Rowan, Rider, Monmouth, Seton Hall, among others, becomes a topic of interest. Cannabis is unlike other substances on the NCAA’s prohibited performance enhancement list. Athletes do not consume cannabis to gain a competitive advantage, but rather for various individualized personal or medical reasons.

 

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