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In this article the authors comment on an article by Mike McNamee which focused on whether and how the presence of cannabinoids on the prohibited list is justified or not. The authors argue that marijuana should be dropped from the list as it is not performance enhancing, claiming athletes using the drug should not be banned for cheating. The authors also discuss the concept of doping under the mission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

This article seeks, first, to offer some critical comments on the policy issues and problems surrounding the use of sporting schemes as vehicles of social policy in which the intention is to reduce levels of crime, delinquency and drug 'abuse' among young people; second, to examine a point of fundamental importance in policy terms: do such schemes work? In this regard, it is claimed that relatively few of such schemes - which are largely premised upon a one-sided perception of sport - have built in processes for monitoring and evaluating their impact on levels of crime or drug use among young people. It is also argued that these methodological weaknesses are exacerbated by the absence of any clearly articulated theoretical rationale for these schemes, which means that, even where success for them is claimed, it is unclear what specific aspects of the schemes account for that claimed success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]