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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Olympic threshold for marijuana testing is higher than ever in 2014 🌿Olympic threshold for marijuana testing is higher than ever in 2014
A trailblazer, 16 years later: Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati tested positive for trace amounts of THC and was stripped of a gold medal in 1998, then won it back on appeal.Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP
SOCHI, Russia — Sixteen years after Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati won, lost and ultimately regained an Olympic gold medal (on appeal) after a lab found traces of marijuana metabolites in his urine sample, athletes are still forbidden to “smoke a fatty for Rebagliati” in Sochi because marijuana use remains prohibited during competition.
But 2014 marks the first Olympics since then in which athletes don’t have to fret as much about testing positive for small concentrations of THC that overstay their welcome after out-of-competition use, which is not prohibited, or from standing in someone else’s cannabis cloud.
In May 2013, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) raised the in-competition threshold for marijuana tenfold, to 150 nanograms per milliliter. The...
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