The decision arrives at a time when leading professional sports leagues grapple with changing laws and perceptions of cannabis.
The vast majority of teams in Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL) and the National Hockey League (NHL) compete in U.S. states where cannabis is now legal, in some form.
Michele Roberts, executive director of the NBA players association, had previously predicted there could be a change to the league’s cannabis policy by the end of 2020, and while no formal changes have been enacted, the league has placed far less emphasis on cannabis testing in recent years.
“We should follow the science,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver told Bleacher Report in 2018. “This is not an ethical issue for me. It’s not a moral issue for me. I obviously see what’s happening in the states around America.”
The NHL, for its part, opts to
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