🏈 57 percent of AL.com poll voters say NCAA should take marijuana off its list of banned substances

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The NCAA faces a possible dilemma with marijuana use legalized in Washington and Colorado while the drug remains on the association's list of banned substances.



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[PhillyGirl]

It's really a tough call. I do NOT think it should be banned, but rather treated the same way as alcohol (at least in sports). Alcohol is worse than marijuana when it comes to health and fitness, in my experience (as a former athlete and coach). Both in moderation wouldn't hurt.

Re: the Colorado and Washington complications .. Well, it's "illegal" for people under the age of 21 to purchase and consume alcohol in all 50 states. Yet alcohol is not a banned substance in the NCAA.

I think changes do need to be made, and they will happen in due time, as the nation watches the happenings in Colorado and Washington re: marijuana.

 

[mhardiman]

I never understood why it was; marijuana doesn't exactly give an athlete a "Competitive Advantage" like steroids or some growth hormone substances.