In professional athletic activitying leagues, and also in the Olympic games, drug testing is done consistently, i understand why this is – to keep an even playing field, so that sneaky individuals don’t use performance enhancing drugs, but this all makes sense to me.
I am not an Olympic athlete, nor do I compete on a professional level. I am a bowler who competes in regional competitions and tournaments; Why these people bother with drug tests I will never know, however most confounding of all is why they test for marijuana. Believe it or not, this crew of bowlers does pee tests on the competitors for the presence of cannabis, but first of all, in what reality do you live to believe cannabis is a performance enhancing drug? Does smoking cannabis make a person smarter, faster, stronger, or more dextrous? No it does not! If anything smoking cannabis makes a person slower, particularly in their reflexes… Perhaps I am bitter because I didn’t know about it ahead of time, so I got kicked out of the bowling tournament due to cannabis. My main question is how all these other people spend so much time bowling without smoking cannabis! Marijuana is what makes the game so much fun. I will not be going back to this organization, because there is no way I’m going to stop smoking pot just to win a bowling tournament. Maybe I can get a single of the local cannabis dispensaries to sponsor a local bowling competition! That would be a lot of fun, and no a single would need to be drug tested because both of us would all be high.