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The Changing Hemp Landscape in US Professional Sports

09.06.2020

A significant number of professional athletes in many countries of the world prefer to use hemp for medicinal purposes as an alternative to more dangerous and addictive painkillers. A similar trend is associated with permanent microtraumas or functional disorders in the body of athletes that occur during their professional career.

The pages of the profile electronic publication of Ukrainian hemp breeders described the possibilities of "Using hemp, which reduce the likelihood of opioid use among people with chronic pain." It is the analgesic properties of the plant that formed the basis for the revision of the policy of the leadership of professional sports leagues in the USA to the possibility of using the therapeutic properties of the plant by athletes.

Hemp leaves and inflorescences, as well as preparations made on the basis of the plant over the past year are a hot topic among professional athletes in the United States. As American society is already quite loyal to the possibility of using products from hemp leaves and inflorescences, as well as various kinds of drugs (food / dietary supplements or pharmacological preparations based on the therapeutic properties of the plant), professional sports organizations in the USA are clearly lagging behind attitude to this issue. Until recently, the NBA, NFL and MLB provided for punishments (ranging from fines to suspension from appearances) for players whose analyzes could reveal traces of the use of hemp products or preparations based on the therapeutic properties of the plant. Until recently, the only exception to the four professional sports leagues in the USA was the National Hockey League (NHL), whose management does not punish players even if the results of their analysis give a positive result for hemp. Instead, the NHL connects the players with the doctor in order to help draw up a treatment plan, and this is a mandatory procedure only when the level of tetrahydrocannabinol is “abnormally high” in the athlete’s body.

Major League Baseball (MLB)

In MLB, as well as in the NHL, they realized that hemp is not a horror story that could have been scared 10 years ago. The leadership of the above-mentioned sports professional league recognized that players can responsibly use hemp leaves and inflorescences or preparations made on the basis of the therapeutic properties of the plant, if they are used for medicinal purposes. 

There are a number of factors contributing to the removal of hemp from the list of banned substances by Major League baseball functionaries. Chief among them is the League’s attempt to curb the abuse of opioids commonly used by professional athletes in order to reduce or eliminate the chronic pain that plagues them during their careers and is associated with permanent professional injuries.

National Football League (NFL)

The NFL and NFL Player Associations signed a collective agreement in 2020, which also indicates what the hemp League’s policy is. In particular, in accordance with certain provisions of the new collective agreement, the NFL will seriously reduce potential penalties for players whose results will give a positive result for the presence of hemp in their body.

Until recently, the National Football League adhered to the most stringent policy regarding the possibilities of using the leaves and inflorescences of the plant, as well as various kinds of preparations made on the basis of the therapeutic properties of hemp among the main American professional sports. After Major League Baseball drastically changed its hemp plant policy, NFL executives realized that the rules in the National Football League, with its strict and punitive restrictions, look wild compared to those sentiments that prevail in hemp issues. USA and Canada, as well as other professional sports leagues. Therefore, the new edition of the collective agreement indicated a number of significant concessions regarding the requirements for players using hemp in any form. For example, testing time for the presence of hemp in the body is reduced from 4 months to 2 weeks. Those. within 50 “gaming” weeks, players will be completely exempted from the need to conduct tests to identify cannabis in the body. More importantly, the threshold for penalizing players due to the presence of hemp in their bodies will be significantly increased. In accordance with the new policy, the NFL will impose a penalty “only if the requirements of the collective agreement for the presence of hemp in the body of the player are repeatedly ignored”.  

Until the conclusion of the new collective bargaining agreement, the NFL policy aimed to protect the image of the League. However, the strict sanctions applied to professional athletes led to the opposite result - they sowed bitterness among the players because they could not painlessly solve their health problems arising in the course of their professional activity using the therapeutic properties of hemp (a significant number of players used the analgesic properties of hemp plant for relieving chronic pain and traumatic injuries caused by a top-level game in the National Football League).  

Commentary by the Ukrainian Technical Hemp Association

A significant number of professional athletes in many countries of the world prefer to use hemp for medicinal purposes as an alternative to more dangerous and addictive painkillers. A similar trend is associated with permanent microtraumas or functional disorders in the body of athletes that occur during their professional career. 

In Ukraine, there is positive experience with the use of national preparations made on the basis of the therapeutic properties of hemp. In particular, during the “Hemp University”, students are given information about “The possibilities of using the therapeutic properties of technical hemp of a therapeutic nature” in which a separate section highlights issues related to the possibilities of using the therapeutic properties of technical hemp in professional sports / military personnel / active people of life.

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