There are only a few states left in the U.S. that have not legalized cannabis and now athletes have come out to support the use of cannabis and its benefits. Athletes are still being penalized and put under fire for their use of cannabis but is this all about to change?

States such as Idaho, Wyoming, Kansas and South Carolina are the only states that have the use of cannabis completely illegal. In all other states cannabis is fully legal or legal for medical use, yet athletes are still held to the standard of not using cannabis.

“It’s not a steroid. It’s not a growth hormone. It’s nothing to make you run faster, jump faster, throw faster-furthest thing from that,” Joseph M. Hanna, an attorney from Buffalo New York said to NBC News. “It has more of an opportunity to slow you down than to speed you up.” 

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