NHL stays with status quo as Canada pot legalization looms
(WorldNews Canada)

As Riley Cote took and delivered countless punches over more than a decade of junior and pro hockey, he was eager to avoid painkillers. Early on, marijuana was touted to the enforcer as a healing option. `I started noticing some therapeutic benefits,` Cote said. `It helped me sleep, helped with my anxiety and general well-being.` Now a handful of years into retirement, Cote is a proponent of cannabis and its oils as an alternative to more addictive drugs commonly used by athletes to play through pain. Marijuana can be detected in a person`s system for more than 30 days, is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency without a specific therapeutic use exemption and is illegal in much of the United...