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The WNBA Dropped Its Weed Ban. Now Players Face New Rules on Psychedelics.
The WNBA’s new collective bargaining agreement quietly ends years of marijuana prohibition for players — but the same document that lifts the cannabis ban adds psilocybin, DMT, and ibogaine to the league’s prohibited substances list for the first time. The trade-off reveals how professional sports leagues are still trying to draw a line between normalized and stigmatized altered states.
Skye Laurent
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