Australian sporting bodies want marijuana off performance-enhancing drugs list

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MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia’s major sporting organizations have called for marijuana to be removed from the list of performance-enhancing drugs.

The Coalition of Major Professional and Participation Sports — which represents cricket, soccer, Australian Rules football, rugby league, rugby union and tennis — said on Tuesday it believes marijuana should not be grouped with performance-enhancers such as Human Growth Hormone and anabolic steroids which carry two-year bans.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...g-drugs-list/2012/05/01/gIQAfdYntT_story.html

 

[phenmetrazine]

"He was smoking that marijuana and it made him win the match." So that's why marijuana is bad, it enhances performance 8)

 

[23536]

I'm a better shooter--of shotguns and of basketballs--when I've smoked. I imagine I'd be a better archer too.

I could be wrong, but the drug seems to make my fine motor skills more acute.

 

[phenmetrazine]

Good point, but it is difficult to draw the line. You would not have to be under the influence of marijuana to test positive for marijuana for one. Personally I feel like if the drugs are performance enhancing then why the hell are they restricted. If everyone has access to them, then may the most performance enhanced monstrosity win%) Though I would think that using marijuana is less performance enhancing(if at all) than steroids and HGH in the sports mentioned in the article i.e. cricket, soccer, Australian Rules football, rugby league, rugby union and tennis.

 

[Heisenburg]

For pot to have been classed as performance enhancing in the first place is ridiculous.

I might play guitar better on it but anything physical is just too hard.

 

[Venrak]

^That's your personal response to it. Come back in a few years when tolerance has set in and the nature of the high has changed.

I still think that Cannabis should be considered performance-enhancing. I concentrate better when I have smoked, and I am more imaginative. There are some sports that would consider that performance-enhancing.