re: Why does the NFL care if players smoke weed?

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Personally, I think drug testing is the biggest bunch of BS in the world, unless you work in an industry where it's a life-or-death thing if you get high.

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Someone here has not achieved manger status.

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If you have to get baked after work to deal with being a Walmart cashier, who cares? No different than getting slap-assed drunk after work to deal with being a Walmart cashier

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Assignment for you since I don't feel like looking up the hard and fast numbers: go read about pharmacological half-lives and what they mean. Then look up the half-life of alcohol. Then look up the half-life of thc. Then look up the effects of repeated use and storage/elimination in the body. Once you have done that, you should be able to tell me why it's extremely different to have a drink after work 7 nights a week vs smoking marijuana 7 nights a week 'on your own personal time.'

Oddly enough, by this same token, you may say 'oh, well cocaine gets out of your system fast! Why not let it be used in one's leisure time?' Cocaine, among others, have high potential for death with minimal use, because it can induce a heart attack at extremely low doses.

IV drugs are a public health hazard and also can acutely cause major issues from improper use (assuming here that a 'proper' way refers to the administration of the drug and not the socio-moral meaning of the word 'proper.')

A lot of people don't realize that each individual drug actually has a rather well thought-out reason for its banishment, personal opinions of those agreements aside, each one makes a valid point. Why tobacco and alcohol remain legal are somewhat baffling. How it's OK to pop caffeine pills and drink coffee but not coca tea is a little annoying. In the end, it is all done in the best interest of the country, and it looks as though, for whatever reason, a vast number of citizens seems be willing to remove the stigma from another drug (weed). At present, it looks like the ball is rolling for the legalization nation-wide (though I don't necessarily agree with it, I do choose to live in a democracy and would not feel as if it were the worst law ever passed), but I think the next President will make the teetering movement go one way or the other. He'll either squash it with massive FBI enforcement and fines to the states, and it won't be tried again for several decades, or he will back it fully and force a small revenue stream to the federal government. I am actually interested to see how it turns out.