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Ha Ha! You crack me up, whatever athletes do on their own private time is non of your business. You claim because you bet it's you're business?.... Betting is a risk that's why it's called a bet, not to mention that it's your choice to place a bet, no one is holding a gun up to your head, if you don't like the product, the answer is simple, don't bet....Comment
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About damn time... drug rules in sports and in fact drug legislation in general has always suffered from from a massive lack of clarity, and weed was about the most egregious with no other apparent reason for it's banning in sports except that it was already illegal in civilian life and no obvious reason for it to be illegal at all apart from some spurious moralistic platitudes...
Coupla interesting articles here about the why and when some of the major drugs were made illegal in the US and UK:
The demonisation of cannabis in the United States was an extension of the demonisation of the new Mexican immigrants. To ensure that surveillance and control systems were in place to maintain leverage over the new Mexican citizens. In El Paso, opium had been made illegal to try and control Chinese immigrants. Cannabis was then made illegal to enable the authorities to have an excuse to search, detain and deport Mexican immigrants.It wasn’t until 1928 that cannabis became a prohibited substance in the UK, when mounting racist fears regarding the drugs’ social influence among people of colour led politicals to criminalise it across occupied territories, and then eventually in Britain itself. Politicians in the late 19th century had become obsessed with what they claimed as madness caused by cannabis in the colonies, or as one MP put it, that the “lunatic asylums of India are filled with ganja smokers”. An official inquiry in 1894 finally proved no link between cannabis and mental health or anti-social behaviour in India, but the British government still tried to ban it four times before the turn of the century.
Similar efforts were made elsewhere, with similarly colonialist overtones: the drug was banned in Mauritius in 1840 due to its popularity “among the labouring class,” and in Jamaica in 1913 due to its "demoralising and deplorable" effect on "the natives”. It was a pretty blatant display of social control that soon leaked over into Britain itself, and the moral panic around cannabis landed it an international ban in 1928 by the League of Nations
https://www.cannacares.co.uk/blogs/b...nnabis-illegal
https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-cu...e-uk-law-drugs
https://archive.attn.com/stories/182...-happening-now
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they should retroactively issue a exemption for Chavez jr.Comment
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I have sparred while baked. I got my arse kicked, I was boxing worse than ever, because my reaction time and reflexes were all ****ed up
It was idiotic to ever consider weed as a PED
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Drug pushers? For weed? Ffs man, why does everything that comes out of you're mouth make little little to no sense? U literally made the case for why people use it in the last sentence of your ******, non thought through post, it's self medication for lots of reasons for a lot of people, who the f believes there are weed "drug pushers" out there? U can buy it legally in many states in the us already and weeds ability to dull nagging pains is pretty much perfect for the sport of boxing, and the use of cdb aswell is hugely beneficial for a sport that has many brain impacts, cdb puts a protective coating on your brain when u use it regularly so there's pretty much no downside to the use of THC or CBD in this sport we loveLast edited by I have no ears; 07-07-2021, 08:30 PM.Comment
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The main reason weed was made illegal was because the US govt needed a new enemy to pursue, and justify the existence of its anti-narcotics agencies, after the Prohibition ended in 1933
After more than a decade of persecuting alcohol, (a futile effort that only managed to create the american Mafia), suddenly tens of thousands of drug-enforcement agents and bureauc**** had nothing to persecute anymore, and were facing unemployment
Some govt **** called Harry Anslinger, the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (the original DEA) came up with the idea of demonizing weed with lies and phony bull**** studies
synthetic drugs didn't exist back then, and ******* and heroine were still very unpopular among the population. They didn't justify the existence of such a big, expensive agency as the FBN. So they had to attack the marijuana users, the crackdown and systematic abuse on certain ethnicities was a plus
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harry-a...marijuana-ban/
Then the U.S used its influence, or outright mugged the rest of countries into banning cannabis too, and that's the reason weed, a plant way healthier than tobacco and alcohol, a drug that's never killed anyone, was unfairly banned
But govts don't have full control of information anymore, the masses have seen through all this bull****, and that's why legalization is a thing now
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