re: #145 Stonemason

It is an illegal drug, he has broken a law. C’mon, we can’t rip tax cheats and then give passes to dope somkers can we?

while I agree that he is ‘just an athlete’ it can not be argued that kids do look up to athletes. Just drop in at the local Y some evening this week and ask the swim coaches how the teams grew after his performance.

Kids look up to these people, it happens so when they screw up, it does hurt some kids. Others, however, can be helped as mine will be when we discuss this over the next few days.

Well, perhaps the kids will learn a life lesson: that even heroes sometimes have feet of clay. Even as an admitted pot smoker, he stands head and shoulders above some other athletes we’ve come to know and loathe.

I don’t do pot. I work in an industry where I could be, and have been, tested for drug use. But even if that particular risk weren’t there, I wouldn’t do pot. I just don’t care for it. But I’d like to see it legalized, and taxed, because the wasted law enforcement effort used against it is worse than the effects of the drug itself.