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 Allow athletes to use cannabis, says sports minister [UK]
#6361337 - 12/12/06 11:42 AM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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Allow athletes to use cannabis, says sports minister
December 12, 2006 - thisislondon.co.uk
Athletes at the London Olympics should be not banned for taking recreational drugs, the Sports Minister said today.
Richard Caborn stunned MPs by suggesting cannabis should be removed from the list of banned substances for competitors.
The real threat to the spirit of the 2012 Games, he said, comes from a new generation of performanceenhancing substances, such as growth hormones and genetic manipulation.
Giving evidence to the Commons Science and Technology Select Committee, the minister said the police should be left to deal with athletes caught using social drugs.
The banned from the World Anti-Doping Authority (Wada) includes cannabis, cocaine and other substances.
However, Mr Caborn suggested the list should reviewed. The Minister's intervention came despite a report from his own department and UK Sport detailing how the 2012 Olympics was under "significant threat" from designer drugs.
"We are not in the business of policing society. We are in the business of rooting out cheats in sport. That's what Wada's core function is about."
He said the anti-doping code was based on three principles: performance enhancement, harm to the athlete and harm to the sport.
"I would give far more weight to the performance enhancing of those three and I would also look very seriously at the list, to take off what I believe are some of the social drugs."
In his speech, the Sports Minister also ruled out introducing laws that would making doping at the London games a criminal offence.
Similar legislation has been introduced in Spain, Italy and Greece, but Mr Caborn said he was against it as it would be "disproportionate".
By contrast, Arne Ljungqvist, the head of the International Olympic Committee's medical commission, told the committee that Britain should follow the previous host city of Athens in 2004 by prosecuting athletes who fail drugs tests.
He said: "It sends a powerful message to an athlete that is of great benefit in the fight against doping."
The UK Sport study said it had identified "new threats" from the use of human growth hormones, genetic manipulation and blood doping. The report said: "There is potential for unscrupulous scientists to design new, undetectable substances specifically synthesised to beat the system'.
"By 2012 gene doping could be a very real threat... and, as it uses natural body systems and manipulates the host's DNA, it will be difficult to detect and prove."
The study highlighted the 2003 probe into the case of Dwain Chambers and the US laboratory that made the steroid for which he tested positive.
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Re: Allow athletes to use cannabis, says sports minister [UK] [Re: veggie]
#6361725 - 12/12/06 01:28 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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Its about time, stop relying on "setting an example" with athletes who should be able to smoke once a while like rest of us.
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Re: Allow athletes to use cannabis, says sports minister [UK] [Re: TuneInTurnOn]
#6362565 - 12/12/06 04:50 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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As long as athletes aren't smoking meth, whats the real harm its gonna bring?
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Re: Allow athletes to use cannabis, says sports minister [UK] [Re: veggie]
#6362612 - 12/12/06 05:02 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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As the man said, cannabis is the least of an athlete's worries.
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Re: Allow athletes to use cannabis, says sports minister [UK] [Re: ToiletDuk]
#6363959 - 12/12/06 08:43 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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Meth isn't going to help athletes at the professional level anyway. The side effects way outweigh the benefits.
I think it's great that people are speaking publically like this. There are definitely more important threats to the health and well-being of society than cannabis.
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Re: Allow athletes to use cannabis, says sports minister [UK] [Re: aelephant]
#6364084 - 12/12/06 09:16 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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Most wont smoke anyways as serious athletes
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RoosterCogburn
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Re: Allow athletes to use cannabis, says sports minister [UK] [Re: CUBErt]
#6364120 - 12/12/06 09:24 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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I heard on Stern that some CHESS player was busted for doping... I mean what the fuck is going on here?! To quote Howard, "If there's a drug that makes you good at chess, we all should be taking it". 
All of this lunacy becomes even more insane when you throw in the fact that ANYONE can smoke a cigarette and slurp a martini without anyone blinking an eye...
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Re: Allow athletes to use cannabis, says sports minister [UK] [Re: RoosterCogburn]
#6364859 - 12/13/06 03:17 AM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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I wonder why the United States doesn't have a sports minister in the presidental cabinet... 
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Re: Allow athletes to use cannabis, says sports minister [UK] [Re: veggie]
#6366540 - 12/13/06 02:35 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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Sports Minister Caborn defends drug comments
December 13, 2006 - Reuters
(Reuters) - Sports Minister Richard Caborn defended on Wednesday his call to remove recreational drugs such as cannabis and cocaine from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) list of banned substances.
Caborn's comments to a parliamentary committee on Tuesday were condemned by WADA chairman Dick Pound and the former head of anti-doping at United Kingdom Sport, Michele Verroken.
Speaking at the Sports Coach of the Year awards in London, Caborn said his comments had been misinterpreted but added that he was standing by his contention that WADA should not be banning athletes caught using so-called social drugs.
"I don't regret what I said," Caborn told Reuters. "We've had this debate for 12 months.
"I believe we need an informed debate to reach conclusion at (the WADA summit) in Madrid next year, it will set the policy framework for the next four years.
"We are talking about an organisation that is only seven years old and we need to refine it. Yes, there are a lot of people that disagree with me but also a lot who agree."
Caborn said he condemned the use of illegal substances and drugs, saying athletes had to be seen as role models.
"I've said many times, what happens on the park on Saturday happens in the playground on Monday, that's exactly what we've been saying to all our athletes," Caborn told reporters.
"You cannot act in a way that is socially and legally unacceptable.
"The question is 'do we have drugs that are not performance enhancing on the list when it is the core business of WADA to root out cheats in sport'?
"That's the business they ought to focus on and not be distracted in any way, they are not social policeman."
Verroken accused Caborn of "total and utter naivety".
"He's missing the point about the way drugs are used," she told The Guardian. "You don't know whether cocaine has been used to enhance performance or not -- it may have been."
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