When players from the Stanley Cup winning team skate off the ice after their final game in June, they will head to the dressing room and, in keeping with tradition, they will uncork bottles of champagne. In seasons to come, players might be smoking weed to celebrate their success.

Compared to other professional sports leagues in North America, the NHL is lenient when it comes to cannabis.

The league doesn’t test players for street drugs in the off-season and, during the regular season, it tests only a third of its players at random.

Those who test positive must enter a substance abuse program.

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Randi Druzin ~ Leafly.com ~