{"id":253541,"date":"2025-10-31T16:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253541\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T16:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:17:04","slug":"two-time-south-island-golden-gloves-boxing-champion-shannon-drake-sanctioned-over-cannabis-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253541\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-time South Island Golden Gloves boxing champion Shannon Drake sanctioned over cannabis use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMr Drake incurred a three-month sanction, which ended on 30 October 2025. He is now eligible to return to sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">THC is banned under the substances of abuse category in the Sports Anti-Doping Rules \u2013 which acknowledge that some substances are used outside of sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">Commission chief executive Rebecca Rolls acknowledged the practical approach to sanctioning under the substances of abuse category, but said it was a reminder to athletes that cannabis is still banned in sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe support this practical approach to sanctioning. However, we hope this stands as a reminder that athletes can and do receive anti-doping sanctions for using banned substances, including recreational drugs like cannabis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMr Drake incurred a three-month sanction, which ended on 30 October 2025. He is now eligible to return&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[9490,64,63,22806,16485,802,10697,8813,2905,16493,16492,149959,17358,8936,439,40171,123643,149957,8080,85,27460,60301,149958,122261,13964],"class_list":["post-253541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-after","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-been","tag-boxer","tag-boxing","tag-cannabis","tag-champion","tag-drake","tag-gloves","tag-golden","tag-handed","tag-island","tag-over","tag-positive","tag-sanction","tag-sanctioned","tag-shannon","tag-south","tag-sports","tag-testing","tag-threemonth","tag-timaru","tag-twotime","tag-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}