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Sports and Pot: Exploring the Role of Cannabis in Athletic Recovery - Cannabis News
Athletes are increasingly turning to cannabis to improve recovery time and achieve better results.
Golfers and rugby players show cannabis is going mainstream in sport - Cannabis News
Top golfers take CBD for calmness, while Saracens locks George Kruis and Dominic Day were so impressed with it they launched their own business.
Former Red Wing Darren McCarty joins marijuana company, says pot saved his life - Cannabis News
Since becoming a leading voice on marijuana, claiming the plant saved his life from certain death because of alcoholism and drug addiction, he hopes to translate his athletic success to the cannabis industry.
Scores of athletes have entered the cannabis space in recent years. A few notable names include former Heisman winner Ricky Williams, pro golfer Bubba Watson and NBA great Gary Payton.
The owners of Rolling Greens, Canada's first cannabis-friendly golf course, say they’re aiming to bring the fun back — but to golf, or weed?
Robert Garrigus is back on the green after becoming the first golfer to be suspended from the PGA Tour for cannabis. Now he's fighting the Tour's drug policies.
Organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics want foreign athletes to know that they will be punished if they try to bring cannabis to, or use cannabis in, Japan.
More than 150 current and former athletes signed a letter sent to the World Anti-Doping Agency, asking the organization to remove marijuana from its list of prohibited substances.
With talks of a new collective bargaining agreement underway, the NFL and NFL Players Association have agreed to form two new joint medical committees, partly to study marijuana as a potential pain-management tool for NFL players.
“For too long, I’ve watched my teammates and good friends battle with opioid addiction and leave the game with a long road still ahead; it’s time to make a change.”
A new study published in the medical journal Frontiers in Public Health has found that consuming cannabis may help motivate users to exercise and improve their workouts.
In his first radio interview since retiring, former Cowboys star David Irving opened up about his quest to change the NFL’s stance on medicinal marijuana.
Policing cannabis consumption certainly isn't as much of an issue in the PGA Tour as it is in other professional sports leagues like the NBA or NFL. However, that doesn't mean players are never reprimanded for cannabis use.
An increasing number of retired professional athletes are turning for cannabis for pain relief and a new career.
CBD may help by reducing inflammation, soreness, and pain.
According to Pro Football Talk, the NFL is prepared to adopt a more lenient substance abuse policy in its next collective bargaining agreement, especially as it relates to marijuana.
The NHL Alumni Association (NHLAA) announced a research partnership with Canadian cannabis producers Canopy Growth to explore the potential for medical marijuana as a concussion treatment.
If you've been itching to smoke up on the golf green, your opportunity may be coming soon.
For now, marijuana use remains out of bounds for NFL players. But that might change. The player’s union is having early talks to decide whether medical marijuana should be a permitted drug when the next union contract is up for debate in two years.
