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UFC/USADA marijuana policy violates state law

Alpha_T83 said:
The athletic commissions are responsible for determining policy around drug tests, and they determine what is legal or illegal in their respective states. Those commissions ALLOW USADA to do their testing for them, but USADA cannot substitute their own policies in place of commission policies.

This policy is patently illegal, so long as state law determines that marijuana positive tests be considered a drug test violation.
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You misunderstood what this policy means.

The article on the main page states:
Although this does not alter any commission regulations per se, the goal of this USADA policy change is to inform these commissions and eventually make this a uniform rule change.
 
RedFoxNdisBihhh said:
UFC can think outside the box easily with this and only schedule fighters who openly admit using in appropriate states etc ...

Marijuana is legal in Nevada btw

and if you can get by juicing and smoking pot already under athletic commission standards whats the real big issue ???
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Pot is legal in Nevada but that doesn't make it legal to test for it in MMA testing. As of now there are no commissions in the US that allow pot.
 
Alpha_T83 said:
The athletic commissions are responsible for determining policy around drug tests, and they determine what is legal or illegal in their respective states. Those commissions ALLOW USADA to do their testing for them, but USADA cannot substitute their own policies in place of commission policies.

This policy is patently illegal, so long as state law determines that marijuana positive tests be considered a drug test violation.
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You speak authoritatively, but with no evidence to back it up. The very first reply in the thread points out the illogic in your position.
 
I work for the Federal government. I wish they would get on board.
 
chinarice said:
You're kind of a piece of shit eh? Id rather see a post from the TS than ever see another post from you again. Go back to whatever subforum you were being shit in and stay there.
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here's what the nice TS had to say about someone who thought jones beat reyes:

"Retards should go die of cancer." Fight Metric: Jones vs Reyes​
 
Your premise is incorrect. USADA doesn't test in place of the athletic commissions but in addition to them. They have no relation to the commissions, the UFC hired them and they do the UFC's bidding.
 
You need to invest more time here. Maybe one day someone will look up to you!
 
Yeah. It’s an old story. Such as Nick Diaz having a medical card for it and got a 5 year suspension.
But wait wait wait. Justice was served and only had a 2 year suspension.

so that worked out wonderfully. Legal bills can’t fight for 2 years. Over a prescription which is marijuana and it’s performance enhancing.

It’s pot. Ban all supplements and vitamins and protein powder if marijuana is performance enhancing.
And maybe nobody should be able to sleep over 6 hours as well. We need a fair playing field.
 
It's completely asinine that there are 50 different sets of rules around this.
 
Bend NvR Break said:
All USADA is saying is that they are not violating fighters over positive marijuana tests. They aren't a law enforcement entity. Nor should they act like they are.


And the US government is in the process of moving marijuana off being a schedule 1 drug currently.
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No they’re not. It’s a state issue. And that’s all a citizen could hope for.
we don’t want government mandates. We want states rights.
And whatever state you live in should vote on whatever they see fit.

I don’t want to sound like an old chunk of coal. But I don’t want the government forcing anything in my state. I would rather the folks who live in it decide what they will or will not tolerate.

I’m pro anything you want to ingest into your body. But I don’t want a government to dictate it. And I would rather a state dictate it.

and neither of the choices would be which I am for which is you should ingestbwhstever the hell you want to. But no federal level on it.
 
If USADA decides they aren’t going to penalize you for pot they can simply stop testing for It and focus on other drugs, right? There’s nothing to say they even need to expose themselves to that data, as far as I know.
 
GrantB13 said:
Unless I'm wrong, I don't think Jones was supposed to be flagged in the first place but they fumbled on the policies or whatever. I think it was in place already that a cocaine test wouldn't be an issue out of competition
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Whenever it comes to Jon Jones there is always some fishy non standard bs behavior going on from ufc usada and commissions lol
 
chiefwiggum said:
No they’re not. It’s a state issue. And that’s all a citizen could hope for.
we don’t want government mandates. We want states rights.
And whatever state you live in should vote on whatever they see fit.

I don’t want to sound like an old chunk of coal. But I don’t want the government forcing anything in my state. I would rather the folks who live in it decide what they will or will not tolerate.

I’m pro anything you want to ingest into your body. But I don’t want a government to dictate it. And I would rather a state dictate it.

and neither of the choices would be which I am for which is you should ingestbwhstever the hell you want to. But no federal level on it.
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I agree with you but those days are almost gone, now we are in a fucking new world order unfortunately
 
bref said:
Can't the UFC just not enforce the sanctions/suspensions from individual states and have that fighter just fight their next fight(s) in a different state or country?
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In the US the athletic commissions typically enforce other athletic commissions supsensions. In a different country is possible but the UFC probably wouldn't do that.

Edit: I believe Texas did do it with Barnett, but that was for Strikeforce and on a ban from years ago.
 
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Alpha_T83 said:
The athletic commissions are responsible for determining policy around drug tests, and they determine what is legal or illegal in their respective states. Those commissions ALLOW USADA to do their testing for them, but USADA cannot substitute their own policies in place of commission policies.

This policy is patently illegal, so long as state law determines that marijuana positive tests be considered a drug test violation.
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I think you should take a dab
 
TRT and HGH are legal if prescribed by a doctor, being legal has nothing to do with being allowed in sports.
 
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