Prior to this, other leagues in recent years have enacted changes around cannabis use. The 2020-2021 National Football League (NFL) collective bargaining agreement resulted in a raised threshold for a positive cannabis test and also changed its policy on cannabis use during the offseason (1). Cannabis testing was dropped in 2020 and this July it will be removed from the list of banned substances (1). Similarly, CBD was removed from the banned substances list in Major League Baseball (MLB) in 2019, the first US sports league to do so (3). Cannabis is not classified as a banned substance in the National Hockey League (NHL), but if tests reveal high levels of cannabis, a player can be offered discrete admission into the league’s Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health program (2).

Source: Forbes May 24, 2023 05:51 UTC