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Cannabis in Sport: Anti-Doping Perspective
Cannabis in Sport: Anti-Doping Perspective
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- Since 2004, when the World Anti-Doping Agency assumed the responsibility for establishing and maintaining the list of prohibited substances and methods in sport (i.e. the Prohibited List), cannabinoids have been prohibited in all sports during competition. The basis for this prohibition can be found in the World Anti-Doping Code, which defines the three criteria used to consider banning a substance. In this context, we discuss the potential of cannabis to enhance sports performance, the risk it poses to the athlete's health and its violation of the spirit of sport. Although these compounds are prohibited in-competition only, we explain why the pharmacokinetics of their main psychoactive compound, Δ(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol, may complicate the results management of adverse analytical findings. Passive inhalation does not appear to be a plausible explanation for a positive test. Although the prohibition of cannabinoids in sports is one of the most controversial issues in anti-doping, in this review we stress the reasons behind this prohibition, with strong emphasis on the evolving knowledge of cannabinoid pharmacology.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Competitive Behavior
Sports medicine
Poison control
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Context (language use)
Criminology
Suicide prevention
Article
Competition (economics)
Agency (sociology)
medicine
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Cannabis
Doping in Sports
biology
Cannabinoids
technology, industry, and agriculture
Human factors and ergonomics
social sciences
biology.organism_classification
humanities
Psychology
human activities
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4a242c96fb73911f62e8fb21124a913e