How the Continued Legalization of Cannabis and Changing Drug Policy in Professional Sports Are Affecting the NCAA

By Ayana M. Dunning, MBA & Michael S. Carroll, PhD   In November 2019, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill legalizing marijuana at the federal level and retracting it from Schedule 1 of the 1970 Controlled Substances Act (CSA; Lovelace, 2019). Drugs under Schedule 1 of the CSA have no accepted medical use and are not considered safe (Robotti, 2019). While federal regulations on marijuana are still years away as the proposed bill must be accepted by the full house and later the Sen