TOKYO (AP)-- Two popular Russian sumo wrestlers were slapped with lifetime
bans from Japan's ancient national sport for allegedly using marijuana and
the head of the Japan Sumo Association resigned Monday to take
responsibility for the scandal, officials said.

The wrestlers, brothers Roho and Hakurozan, tested positive for the drug
when the sport conducted its first drug tests following the arrest last
month of another Russian wrestler, Wakanoho, for marijuana possession.

The scandal has rocked the sumo world, which has its roots in religious
ritual and tends to hold its athletes and officials to high moral
standards. Marijuana possession is considered a serious offense in Japan,
and the scandal has been front-page news.



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Does anyone have any doubt the ending of these wrestlers' careers will be
pointed to by the Marijuana Warriors as tragic consequences of marijuana
use rather than vicious exercises of the Marijuana War?