On Friday, Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) wrote to the USADA and the World Anti-Doping Agency to scold them for banning marijuana despite WADA’s medical director’s acknowledgment that it was not a performance-enhancing drug. All of this is true, and none of it matters, because the problem is not USADA or WADA. Like the tax-exempt nonprofits and universities who had to decline to work with my company, they’re just doing what they have to do to keep the lights on. The problem is a federal marijuana policy that seems, in Thomas’s words, “more episodic than coherent.” If Raskin and Ocasio-Cortez want to take someone to task, they should start with their colleagues, and they can end with President Biden.

Source: Washington Post July 06, 2021 09:56 UTC