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J.J. McCoy is New Frontier Data Senior Managing Editor.

WHILE NO ONE IS likely to confuse March Madness with Reefer Madness, this month’s annual college basketball bacchanal nevertheless serves to remind us of a cultural disconnect between current campus realities and an increasingly anachronistic approach to cannabis policy.

Last December, as the University of Oklahoma football team (a.k.a. the Oklahoma Sooners) prepared to meet the eventual College Football Playoff winners, the Louisiana State University Tigers, three Sooners players were suspended instead ran an analysis piece concluding that the NCAA should stop testing for marijuana.