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NCAA Updates Marijuana Testing Policies By Increasing Threshold Levels

The NCAA announced some major news on Friday regarding their THC testing policies.

In a press release, the NCAA announced that this week’s Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports meeting resulted in the increase of THC threshold levels for college athletes.

Going off of the threshold levels put in place by the World Anti-Doping Agency, the committee agreed to raise the amount from 35 to 150 nanograms per milliliter, if a student tests positive for having THC in their system.

“Reconsidering the NCAA approach to cannabis testing and management is consistent with feedback from membership on how to better support and educate student-athletes in a society with rapidly evolving public health and cultural views regarding cannabis use,” said Dr.