21 picograms? that is nothing, unless you are talking about LSD
Baffert has been caught more than twenty times over his career. Once or twice, okay. Twenty times? Methinks he doth protest too much.
“21 picograms? that is nothing, unless you are talking about LSD”
No kidding. It reminds me of my buddy who was a navy officer. He enjoyed smoking the erb and NEVER had a problem when serving, but then the navy said they would drug test. He left, figured he better get the Honorable before getting done-in. I suspect the military lost a LOT of excellent officers and men due to this policy...although I can understand the flip-side of it too.
I don't think that's enough for LSD. Minimum effective dose for LSD is on the order of single digit micrograms per liter of body volume. A picogram is a trillionth of a gram - that's a million times smaller.
I bet it's some kind of noise. To prove a detection at the picogram level requires a herculean effort to prevent contamination. A positive test at the parts per trillion level has to be repeated under stringent protocol and confirmed by a separate means before conclusion. Protocol alone doesn't prove the conclusion.
So you are saying that 0.0000000000007 ounces of the drug will not make a difference in performance? /s
It doesn’t say picograms per what. Likely a milliliter. Still seemingly trivial, but they account for metabolism.