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What are the rules regarding recreational drugs

brians_da_best 5/15/25, 7:54:49 AM
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debut: 11/13/02
19,018 runs

In cricket?

Rabada seems to have got a little slap on his wrist. That’s all

Served some sentence when there was literally no cricket being played. Missed 2 IPL games and would have come back had they not stopped the tournament

Then Campbell got two years.

I’m aware there are differences in both scenarios but these two scenarios seem poles apart in terms of punishments meted out
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KTom 5/15/25, 12:27:37 PM
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debut: 7/22/22
985 runs

THC is prohibited in competition only, and only when the urinary concentration exceeds a threshold of 150 ng/mL. This threshold was increased in 2013 from 15 ng/mL. As such, the high level of cannabis required to trigger an Adverse Analytical Finding in competition today would be consistent with a significantly impaired athlete or a frequent user. Further, the inclusion of the ‘Substance of Abuse’ provision in the Code from 2021 significantly reduced the length of suspension from a potential two (or even four) years previously to as low as one month today for athletes who can establish that the THC use occurred out of competition and was unrelated to sport performance.


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