Marijuana in the UFC
If you are a fan of the UFC, you know who Nick Diaz is. And if you know who Nick Diaz is, you know the guy likes to smoke weed every once in a while.
The Nevada State Athletic Commission is against the use of Marijuana in its sports, and decided to use Nick Diaz as an example, so they overturned Diaz win over Gomi.
“Obviously it’s not a performance enhancing drug, so therefore trying to take the guy’s win away – all of these guys testing positive for steroids, and we’ll focus on Nick’s weed thing forever. Let’s talk about that forever. Oh, we did steroids, that’s fine. Let’s not talk about that. You did some cocaine or something,” continued the trainer. “People have this fetish for the weed thing or something.”
I have a few problems with this. Lets get this straight, I am not a Marijuana user, and never will be. Its a decision I made a long time ago, and I am sticking to it. That being said, I think The Nevada State Athletic Commission made the wrong decision by taking away Diaz win.
I know that just because Nick Diaz has a prescription to use Marijuana in California, doesn’t mean its okay for him to test positive for Marijuana in Nevada. But lets get real here, weed does not made you faster, stronger, and hit harder! The stuff does exactly the opposite, it calms you down and makes you lazy. So why take away the guys win because he tested positive for weed that he might have smoked two weeks before the fight? We need to be worried about steroids and performance enhancers, not stuff that makes you perform worse!
I am all about drug testing in sports that you put other athletes in danger. An example of this would be Nascar. You just can’t have a guy driving 200+ mph while high and drugged up. This is putting everyone in danger, including the fans and pit crew.
But UFC and Nascar are completely different. The only person that Diaz was putting in danger was himself, and himself only. If anything he is giving the other fighter a better chance of knocking him out.
I am sure a fighter does not get a fight taken away from him because he drank two weeks before the fight. I would bet that nothing would happen if he drank the night before! The reason is because he would have a hangover and if anything, people would think he is an idiot for drinking the night before a big fight.
Again, I do not think weed is a medicine that can fix everything, and I do not smoke Marijuana. But if a grown man decides he wants to smoke some weed a week or two before a fight, I don’t think his win should be taken away. Who knows, he probably smoked it in California, where it is legal, before he arrived in Nevada.
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