Would smoking weed be considered doping in competetive eating event?

I am not sure if it would be considered doping a performance enhancing aspect, but weed use can still result in sanctions if your levels are too high.

Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati got the whole thing going when he won gold at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Shortly after winning he tested positive for cannabis. As a result, his gold medal was almost taken from him.

Then in 1999, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) put cannabis on the official list of banned substances. Since the Olympics follows WADA’s rules, cannabis became illegal for Olympic athletes as well.

Fourteen years later, in 2013, WADA made some important changes to its rules. It raised the legal limit of THC by almost 10 times. Now, athletes can’t get in trouble unless they have 150 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood.

The new rules make it so that the only time an athlete would ever test above the allowable limit is if they got high right before or during an event. But if they smoke a few days before or after a competition they should be fine.

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