"In each of these cases [from other states] involving a Class 1 drug, authorities found some form of mitigating circumstances or applied a reduced sentence. None of the trainers was ever suspected of having a street drug like methamphetamine administered to their horses. Contamination was suspected in virtually every instance, in part because of the minute levels of detection."
"Then we have Minnesota, where regulators have dug their heels into the ground on four different methamphetamine positives since 2014, even when there was confirmation that some members of the Canterbury Park starting gate crew – the people who handle the horses just before a race – were methamphetamine users."