The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) have agreed not to conduct random tests for marijuana among players this season, the North American league has announced, the same day that the United States House of Representatives voted to legalize it.
In March, when competition for the coronavirus pandemic stopped, the NBA stopped screening of drugs completely.
In this sense, it should be remembered that in the last ‘bubble’ of Orlando in which the 2019-20 season was decided drug tests were recovered to improve performance, but not marijuana.
The league announced that testing will continue this season, which begins in just 18 days. “Due to unusual circumstances due to the pandemic, we have agreed with the NBPA suspend random marijuana testing for the 2020-21 season and to focus our randomized testing program on performance-enhancing substances and drugs of abuse, “he said in a statement.
Players are rarely suspended for positive marijuana tests. Current policy dictates that players will be suspended five games if they test positive three times, with fines and an anti-drug program for the first two positives. They only get tested for all kinds of drugs four times a season.
Durant already advocated not to prosecute the use of marijuana | TWITTER
That is, it was virtually impossible for a marijuana smoker to be ‘hunted’ And even in that case the sanction is not exactly monstrous either.
The Brooklyn Nets star, Kevin Durant, had asked the NBA to permanently eliminate marijuana off his banned substance list while rehabbing for a torn Achilles tendon last year.
