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If eSports Drug Tests Include Weed, It Must Make You Better at Games, Right?

• http://motherboard.vice.com, by EMANUEL MAIBERG

This means that either your stoner friend was right and smoking weed really does make him better at Call of Duty, or that the ESL is adopting archaic anti-drug policies that equate marijuana with heroin. I'm not sure which is more concerning, but both explanations highlight that we're still not very good at regulating cannabis.

The ESL announced that it will begin randomly testing players for performance enhancing drugs last month, shortly after professional eSports player Cory "Semphis" Friesen admitted he and his team used Adderall, a psychostimulant usually used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), during a $250,000 ESL event.

It's been widely speculated that eSports players use Adderall, but Friesen's public statement sent ripples through the eSports world and eventually led the ESL to announce new anti-doping policies. Starting with its event in Germany later this month, it will test players for a number of substances in addition to Adderall, including marijuana.


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