The World Anti-Doping Agency veered from its lane into the racist history of cannabis prohibition
What the hell was the watchdog thinking? asks Lindsay Beyerstein.
American track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson will be sitting out the Tokyo Olympics this year. She tested positive for THC, the active ingredient in cannabis, after a record-breaking 100-meter dash at the tryout for the US Olympic team.
Richardson told NBC she used drug a few days before her tryout, to cope with the sudden death of her biological …