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[Brutus]

http://www.411mania.com/MMA/news/621...nth-Report.htm

How has MMA fared in California since the new standards were implemented in late April?

There has been a great deal of concern about the use of street drugs and anabolic/masking agents when it comes to athletic competitions and Mixed Martial Arts is no different. The California State Athletic Commission released information to 411Mania today documenting the CSAC Drug Violations from 3/30/07 to 9/30/07 (half-way into their first year of introducing more rigorous testing). In the words of a CSAC official the results were "very scary".

The following is a breakdown of the information:

- While twenty more boxing events were tested (56 to 36), 33 of 43 the total violations were related to Mixed Martial Arts (eight from boxing and two from kickboxing events)

- Thirteen total violations were related to anabolic/masking agents while twenty-eight of the violations were from "drugs of abuse" such as cocaine, alcohol, marijuana, etc.

- One violation relates to an athlete who refused to test

- One violation relates to an athlete who altered the test kit with tap water (confirmed by a lab)

- Twenty-four of thirty "drugs of abuse" results were related to athletes testing positive for marijuana

- Five of thirteen "anabolic/masking agents" violations showed multiple steroids in a single violation

hopefully these stats will go down as time goes on but there will always be the drug issue in all sports.

[Jellypig]

People certainly love their weed man. Beat some ass for some weed, sounds good to me! And LOL at the tap water replacement.

[Brutus]

Originally Posted by Crùsh

People certainly love their weed man. Beat some ass for some weed, sounds good to me! And LOL at the tap water replacement.

ahaha yeah, the tap water replacement got me laughing too.

[LefthookStcrook]

I'm surprised they didn't mention Randleman replacing his piss with animal piss lol