In Colorado it is illegal to smoke Marijuana on the slopes. The rules are not always followed, and some maintain it improves there game.
When Olympic snowboarder Ross Rebagliati tested positive for a small amount of marijuana in his blood at the 1998 Japan games, his first-place finish was temporarily called into question.
But THC, the main mind-altering chemical in marijuana, wasn’t even included in the International Olympic Committee’s banned-substances list at the time (it is now, but at a much higher level than the one he tested at). Rebagliati was allowed to keep his victory and medal. (He is now in the medical-marijuana business.)
Even though it’s on the banned list now, does anyone really think of marijuana as a performance-enhancing drug in the first place?
After all, as Robin Williams later joked, “the only way it’s a performance-enhancing drug is if there’s a big f—ing Hershey bar at the end […]
To be honest, I tried the substance back IN 1966 in Germany where everyone smoked hashish. It was such a better feeling than being drunk that I thought it would surely be legalized within a few years at the most. It actually made life more tolerable, and took away the bad emotions which alcohol created and seemed to make life happier in general. I cannot understand why no one else felt the same about it, because if everyone knew the truth, it would be legal and alcohol would not..