A National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) committee focused on promoting health and wellness for student athletes is proposing to remove marijuana from the organization’s banned substances list.
The NCAA’s Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports (CSMAS) said the association will be soliciting input from members over the summer before potentially taking action in the fall.
In order to adopt the policy change, all three of NCAA’s divisional governing bodies will need to approve the proposal—though this most recent committee action was already spurred by a request from Divisions II and III to examine whether drug testing should be limited to performance-enhancing substances.
In the meantime, the panel will also seek approval from the Board of Governors to separately suspend THC testing for athletes during the NCAA championship as the broader reform is considered.
CSMAS signals its support for removing cannabis from banned drug list and drug-testing protocols:https://t.co/hfMb4Bikcs
— NCAA PR (@NCAA_PR) June 16, 2023
The committee said that it is recommending that cannabis be removed from the list of banned drugs in part because it does not consider marijuana to be a performance-enhancing substance, an issue that was discussed at the Summit on Cannabinoids in College
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