OT Sha’Carri Richardson (fastest woman alive) Suspended from Olympics for Weed

Laws and rules can, and often do, disproportionately impact groups of people.

Because implementation of the rule, and the frequency of testing, can vary. Different police departments enforce different laws differently. Different countries test (and cheat) differently for Olympics.

We all know that Michael Phelps was hitting the bong, though he may have chosen not to do so so close to the Olympics. I'd be interested in how frequently he was getting hit up with weed tests prior to the Olympics.

Then I think you don't have a good understanding of the history of the drug war that the USA, starting with Nixon, has demanded of the world, and utilized its full economic and military might to implement. That drug war, implemented against the recommendation of multiple expert working groups such as the AMA and SAMSHA, who, as early as 1969, told the administration that drugs should not be criminalized, was done to attack political enemies such as hippies and black power groups who opposed many of Nixon's policies, especially the war in Vietnam. It was an easy mode of attack and maligning that Nixon's own advisors have admitted to in recent years, and is expressed on the Nixon Tapes.  In the years since, politicians have found it impossible to walk back, and a mindset was created that drug use is criminal.  For decades we put tremendous pressure on allies and adversaries internationally, tying aid and foreign relations to their strict adherence to our drug mandates.  Only in recent years have you seen countries start to reverse this, albeit slowly.  So, if you think the IOC's point of view on cannabinoids is about their concerns over athlete performance, rather than a derivative of the US's pervasive influence over global drug policies, I would argue that you're naive and ignorant to history.   

Not saying she isn't accountable to the rules.  Just saying that the rules are archaic vestiges of a political "war" that was in large part designed to target African Americans in the civil rights era.  She doesn't need to be excused from the rules, the rules need to be changed. They don't test for alcohol or nicotine.  

The Nigerian woman is Blessing Okagbare. Her time was faster but the wind at her back was above the maximum allowed so it doesn’t count as “wind legal.” I believe Okagbare is the second fastest woman ever “in all conditions.”

she's an attractive woman, on the short list of contenders for a gold medal in a super-high profile olympic event. 

taking the attitude that "testing for [thc] is dumb and fuck your dumb rules" is a sure-fire way to put millions and millions of dollars in endorsements in jeopardy.