“Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images Colorado resorts don’t allow anyone to consume marijuana while on the slopes, but we hear that sometimes those rules are broken. When Olympic snowboarder Ross Rebagliati tested positive for a small amount of marijuana in his blood at the 1998 Japan games, his first-place finish was temporarily called into question.

But THC, the main mind-altering chemical in marijuana, wasn’t even included in the International Olympic Committee’s banned-substances list at the time (it is now, but at a much higher level than the one he tested at). Rebagliati was allowed to keep his victory and medal. (He is now in the medical-marijuana business.)

Even though it’s on the banned list now, does anyone really think of marijuana as a performance-enhancing drug in the first place?”

Read more here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/marijuanas-surprising-effects-athletic-performance-183230768.html

John Iadarola (http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola), Ben Mankiewicz (http://www.twitter.com/benmank77), and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian) of The Young Turks discuss.

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