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NBA players won't be subject to random marijuana tests in the 2021/2022 season

Reading Time: 1min | Thu. 07.10.21. | 12:50

Testing continues for "drugs of abuse and performance enhancing substances''

NBA won't be subjected to random tests for marijuana this season, the league revealed on Wednesday.

"We have agreed with the NBPA to extend the suspension of random testing for marijuana for the 2021-22 season and focus our random testing program on performance-enhancing products and drugs of abuse," NBA spokesman Mike Bass said.

The NBA first adjusted the policy during the 2019-20 season restart, which featured 22 of the 30 teams entering the Walt Disney World Resort "bubble" in Orlando to complete the season after the league suspended play because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The NBA then announced prior to the 2020-21 season that it would not conduct randomized testing for marijuana, once again to focus the random testing program on "performance-enhancing products and drugs of abuse."

Ahead of the 2021-22 season, teams gathered in their local markets on Sept. 27 for media day, with training camp beginning the following day.


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