{"id":8371,"date":"2018-06-27T20:40:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T20:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=3119102"},"modified":"2018-06-27T20:40:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T20:40:12","slug":"big3-basketball-league-allows-players-to-use-cbd-for-pain-relief-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/big3-basketball-league-allows-players-to-use-cbd-for-pain-relief-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"BIG3 basketball league allows players to use CBD for pain relief, recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/big3-basketball-league-allows-players-to-use-cbd-for-pain-relief-recovery\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/big3-basketball-league-allows-players-to-use-cbd-for-pain-relief-recovery.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 The BIG3 says players in the 3-on-3 league of former NBA players are allowed to use cannabidiol, or CBD, for pain management and recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Under the change announced Wednesday, the BIG3 becomes what\u2019s believed to be the first professional sports league in the United States to allow use of the marijuana ingredient for pain management and recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The BIG3 says its decision follows the removal of CBD from the World Anti-Doping Agency\u2019s list of banned substances earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The league says in a statement: \u201cDespite many states around the country making efforts to decriminalize or legalize cannabis, both medicinally and recreationally, professional athletes who could benefit medicinally are prevented from doing so by league outdated mandates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second season of the league co-founded by entertainer Ice Cube began last week in Houston. It has a stop Friday in Chicago. The league features players like Amare Stoudemire, Baron Davis and former Denver Nuggets Kenyon Martin and Nate Robinson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>The BIG3 says players in the 3-on-3 league of former NBA players are allowed to use cannabidiol, or CBD, for pain management and recovery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7912,531,52,330,7911,7913,6813,77,9,7914,1089,5019,5113,1,3,61,1736,1098],"tags":[7916,3105,2632,2908,7915,7917,6818,2655,7918,3659,5022,5114,3668],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}