Footy Life Ban For Cannabis Use

[freddie]

Australian-first life ban for Gold Coast Vikings rugby league player William Morunga after cannabis test

A GOLD Coast rugby league player has become the first Australian sportsman to be banned for life for cannabis use.

 

The Queensland Rugby League has banned Gold Coast Vikings player William Morunga from the game in any capacity, including training with teammates, competing, or acting in any support role such as coaching or managing.

 

The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority collected an in-competition sample from Morunga on June 16 after the curtain-rasier to the second State of Origin match at Lang Park.

 

The sample "returned an adverse analytical finding for a metabolite of cannabis".

 

It is the first Australian case to involve an athlete committing a third anti-doping rule violation, which under the World Anti-Doping Code usually invokes a lifetime ban.

 

Morunga had previously received two bans for the presence of cannabis as a member of Touch New Zealand.

 

His first violation, following a test on March 5, 2005 resulted in a two-month ban and his second, following a test on March 4, 2006, resulted in a two-year ban.

 

Morunga's ban started on September 14.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl/lifetime-rugby-league-ban-for-gold-coast-vikings-player-william-morunga-after-cannabis-test/story-e6frep5x-1225932241389

 

This is unbelievable. Hardly a performance enhancing drug. The world anti doping code desperately needs an overhaul. How hypocritical of a sport that has so many problems with alcohol.

[headstone]

The laws are wrong, but I have no sympathy for him. He must have been told what would happen if he got caught the 3rd time and he chose to continue smoking weed anyway. As far as I'm concerned he brought it on himself...

[jimbojones5678]

This is unbelievable. Hardly a performance enhancing drug. The world anti doping code desperately needs an overhaul. How hypocritical of a sport that has so many problems with alcohol.

 

So true - but I guess the lure of Mary Jane was just too much for him

 

Happy Retirement dude...

 

Jimbo

[swstoner]

and its real performance enhancing!! I work in the mines in WA and we know the risks, just dont sook if you get nailed and take it on the chin!!

[Sylar420]

Full idiot, he new the risk and ignored it but it dose send the wrong msg if you ask me, smoke a joint or rip a bong and and it in your system weeks late, take meth, xtc, coke or heroin and its out of your system in a few days, just means that players will use harder drugs that have a shorter detection period in the body unlike dope which can be detected for up to a month in urine. So the moral of the story is: take hard drugs sorts men and women they don't sty in you system long enough to be detected after a long weekend

[konflikt]

reflects the idiotic society we live in pretty well...

[konflikt]

should have just been rooting poor dirty hookers HV infested hookers after footy.. nothing illegal about that