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Cohon envisions drug policy for CFL by 2010
Courtesy Vancouver Province:
CFL commissioner Mark Cohon hopes to have a league drug policy in place by the 2010 season, he said Tuesday.
The league has been in conversation with players’ association representatives, and Cohon believes a policy will be established once the current collective bargaining agreement runs out in June of next year.
“We have a first draft of an agreement that, in principle, we all like, but we’ve agreed that our collective bargaining discussions will start this year,” Cohon said of chief operating officer Michael Copeland’s talks with CFLPA reps Stu Laird and Ed Molstad.
“Our CBA ends three days before training camp begins in 2010, so we want this to be part of the new agreement in 2010,” he said.
“I think we have a great product on the field . . . at the same time we have to be cognizant of what’s going on in sports around the world,” he added.
Cohon suggested that, as far as the league is concerned, a drug policy is a must-have for 2010.
“That’s our position and I think that’s their position, too,” he said of the union.
