Thunder Good-Oil
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Many more states than CA and CO allow recreational use
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You sure are stuck on this bong thing aren't You ?! You obviously missed the point. No elite student athlete is going to factor in a state's legalities in respect to weed in thier decision...period.
Going to jail? Really?What’s that even mean? Every other student on campus isn’t potentially going to earn 6 figures and up right after school playing a game. The regular guy majoring in engineering can be a poor physical specimen with little chance of hurting their employment prospects.
But the whole point, before the thread has been taken off the rails, is that the NCAA isn’t going to penalize S-As anymore (if the proposal is passed) and could that help with recruiting in legal states? TN will be about the last one to make it legal.
If the players are stoned they won’t be as likely to absorb the concepts being taught.
So you see zero difference between going to jail and not going to jail? Interesting.
Going to jail? Really?
No, purchasing small amounts of marijuana is not a serious crime. Less than 0.01% of student athletes have been arrested for pot related crimesYou can also simply be arrested and fined. It’s still a criminal act in half the states. Especially in the southeast.
In addition the risk of having your freedom or your money taken away, there’s also a difference with availability. It’s pretty easy to walk into storefront dispensaries in places like Michigan State while in TN you have to deal with somebody committing a rather serious crime.
It's been legal in the Pacific states for awhile now. Haven't heard anyone complaining about recruiting issuesNot really. I’m simply addressing that the NCAA had kept it equal. By no longer having it as a banned substance there’d be a chasm between schools in legal states and schools in Prohibitionist states.
Please don’t compare those things to smoking weed. Unless you’re trying to be funny.Well said TGO!
Just because others are doing it ... does not automatically make it a good thing to do. Just spit balling here: Driving your car off a California cliff, robbing convenience stores at gunpoint, sleeping on the street, test driving meth, driving under the influence, I can think of a few more if needed ..... :^)))))))
I’ll take a consensus 5 star who smokes weed over a project that doesn’t. Weed May cloud you a bit in some ways but it’s useful in other ways, and talent and hard work trumps all, weed usage et alTN might be well positioned as the NCAA takes marijuana off of their banned substances list. Schools in legal states like CA and CO might win some recruiting battles, but TN with the opposite culture from 15 years ago (players getting baptized instead of getting arrested), might have an advantage with clearer minds on the court.
I think that’s overstated. If the ncaa takes it off their banned lists, coaches will essentially have the discretion to ignore it or not on a drug test. A lot of these athletes smoke weed and still pass their drug tests because of how quickly they can get it out of their system. Occasionally you get some gets caught by the cops with it but they were usually doing something else wrong in the first place in order to get pulled over and caught. Can’t fix stupid.I think that you keep missing the question with your passionate pro marijuana stance. The NCAA looks like it is about to take it off of their banned substances list. Isn’t that potentially going to be an advantage for schools in legal states?
I’ll take a consensus 5 star who smokes weed over a project that doesn’t. Weed May cloud you a bit in some ways but it’s useful in other ways, and talent and hard work trumps all, weed usage et al