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AFL warns players ahead of hair tests for drugs

Carlton's Lachie Cowan will serve a two-game AFL ban for conduct unbecoming. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

The AFL has fired a shot across the bows at players as Lachie Cowan's two-game ban for illicit drug use was confirmed.

In its media release on Friday about the Carlton defender, the league made a point of noting that all players will be hair tested in January and that readings could go back as far as six months.

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