World Anti-Doping Agency

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has officially removed marijuana from its list of banned substances for professional fighters. This move builds on a 2021 policy that largely shielded athletes from penalties for THC, the psychoactive component in cannabis. The change aligns the UFC with...

Conducted by members of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM), the study shed light on the perspectives of sports medicine doctors regarding cannabinoid use with a primary focus on cannabidiol (CBD). See Also: New Study Examines How Marijuana Legalization Shapes College...

A World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) panel recently decided that marijuana use by athletes violates the "spirit of sport" and laid out its reasons why it will remain on the prohibited list. What Happened Made up of experts in sports medicine, law and ethics, the WADA panel reviewed...

One of track and field’s most electrifying athletes and the nation's top sprinter, Sha'Carri Richardson missed out on the 2021 Tokyo Olympics when she tested positive for cannabis in her home state of Oregon where it’s legal.  Richardson, among the fastest...

Sha’Carri Richardson is questioning, and her fans are demanding, to understand why Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was allowed to compete in the Olympics while Sha'Carri herself was banned for a similar offense and tossed out of the summer Olympics after testing positive...

The blame game sputtered to the surface again on Wednesday when Edwin Moses, two-time Olympic track and field gold medalist and emeritus chair of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), appeared before a federal commission at a hearing on international sports where he was...