<p>NBA officials and the National Basketball Players Association reached a new tentative labor agreement over the weekend that no longer penalizes athletes for using marijuana and removes the substance from the league&#8217;s drug testing program.</p>
<p>Both parties reached the new seven-year Collective Bargaining Agreement early Saturday morning, which still needs players and team governors to ratify the deal before becoming official.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sources: NBA players will no longer be prohibited for marijuana under the new seven-year Collective Bargaining Agreement. It&#39;s been removed from the anti-drug testing program, a process that began during 2019-20 season.</p>
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<p>NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced in late 2021 that the league would stop randomly drug-testing players for cannabis after reportedly pulling back on regulating use during the pandemic.</p>
<p>&#8220;We decided that, given all the things that were happening in society, given all the pressures and stress that players were under, we didn&#8217;t need to act as Big Brother right now,&#8221; Silver said, according to <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/nba-reverses-marijuana-ban-ending-162744846.html">Yahoo</a>. &#8220;I think society&#8217;s views around marijuana have changed to a certain extent.&#8221;</p>
<p>Aside from changing its position on marijuana use, <a href="https://theathletic.com/4370686/2023/04/01/new-nba-cba-agreement/">The Athletic</a> details other negotiations in the tentative agreement, which include allowing NBA players to promote and/or invest in betting and cannabis companies, sign non-gambling endorsement deals with sports betting companies and invest in teams in NBA and WNBA teams via an NBPA-selected private equity firm — among other terms.</p>
<p>According to the outlet, the reversal would go into effect this summer through the 2029–30 season if both parties do not opt out by the end of the 2028–29 season.</p>
<p>Tamika Tremaglio, executive director of the players association, said in a tweet more details would become available once officials finalize a term sheet.</p>
<p>&#8220;Since day one, the goal of the NBPA in this negotiation was to protect our players, enrich their lives on and off the court, and establish a framework that recognizes our players as true partners with the governors in both the NBA and the business world at large!&#8221; Tremaglio said.</p>
<p>Phoenix Suns star player Kevin Durant has advocated for medicinal marijuana use for athletes and has entered a multi-year deal with Weedmaps, an online weed marketplace, to destigmatize the plant, according to Yahoo.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Band-Aid has been ripped off in the sports world,&#8221; Durant said. &#8220;It&#8217;s kind of an undercover thing that players use cannabis and use it throughout when they&#8217;re actively playing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Former NBA players, including Hall of Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Allen Iverson, have also been open about their cannabis use, according to <a href="https://www.insider.com/nba-players-weed-ban-lifted-union-agreement-2023-4">Insider</a>.</p>
<p>NBC Sports <a href="https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/04/01/nba-ditches-marijuana-testing-under-new-cba-when-will-nfl-follow-suit/">reported</a> the National Football League reduced potential penalties for marijuana three years ago in a similar deal but did not completely exclude testing for the substance as more states started to legalize cannabis for recreational use — creating a conflict between the league and the law.</p>
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<p>In January 2021, officials in the Ultimate Fighting Championship dropped penalties for fighters who tested positive for marijuana.</p>
<p>&#8220;The bottom line is that in regard to marijuana, we care about what an athlete consumed the day of a fight, not days or weeks before a fight, which has often been the case,&#8221; UFC Senior Vice President of Athlete Health and Performance Jeff Novitzky said in a statement to <a href="https://theathletic.com/4225088/2021/01/14/ufc-will-not-penalize-fighters-for-testing-positive-for-marijuana/">The Athletic</a>.</p>

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