NBA Ends Cannabis Ban for Its Players

The league has just signed the new collective bargaining agreement that allows players to use cannabis and cannabis derivatives.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) and the players’ union have signed a new collective bargaining agreement that removes cannabis from the list of banned substances for league players. The new agreement, which will be in effect for seven years, also allows athletes to invest in cannabis companies with some limitations.

The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association culminated the negotiation process a few days ago with the signing of the agreement, the terms of which had been agreed upon almost three months ago. According to Marijuana Moment, the new agreement is 676 pages long and, among many other things, contains a number of provisions relating to cannabis, the most important of which is that the consumption of the substance by players will no longer be sanctioned.

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It was a temporary measure, but in December 2020, the league confirmed that it would maintain that policy for the duration of the 2020-2021 season, something that was also repeated for the next two seasons. Since then, players have been able to consume cannabis and its derivatives at will without fear of receiving a sports sanction for their use, but so far the measure had not been made permanent.

In addition to this, the agreement also contemplates that players may have “a direct or indirect interest (whether controlling or non-controlling) in an entity that produces or sells CBD products,” a consideration that allows cannabis products of up to 0.3% THC, the limit set by U.S. law for industrial hemp. In other words, players will be able to get into the cannabis industry, but only in companies with non-psychoactive cannabis product brands.

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