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

Image of the league... not that weed is their biggest problem.

But they want to portray being role models

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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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There's a lot of things that aren't conducive to productivity. Getting drunk during the work week. Going out on a Tuesday night and chasing tail. Playing XBox until 2 a.m. Staying up all night watching old Sopranos episodes on HBO Go. You don't get tested for those things. If you wanna juggle that shite and can pull it off, it's ok. Should be the same with getting high.

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Holy shite you're stupid. And I'm a HUGE proponent of legalizing weed.

and LOL at people bringing up drug testing for weed when it is painfully obvious there is rampant steroid and HGH use in the NFL and NCAA. The guys who retire immediately lose all their muscle mass and no one looks like some of these guys without PEDs. Laron Landry 100% was on them and probably still is.

(I'm ok with HGH if taken for injury rehab, but different topic for different day)

I like to believe Ricky Williams is the answer to this question.

Th03 had a very good response that I think anyone with a brain should realize.

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Weed is not very conducive to that

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Perhaps not for you, but not everyone falls into that category.

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But it still affects some people negatively, so why you would your employees to do that if they had the choice?

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Assuming they are not doing it at work. What they do in their own time is their businesses, as long as they show up and do their work. As someone else mentioned, there are lots of perfectly legal activities that if abused can affect productivity.

ETA: The only reason it is tested for is because it is illegal, which is completely ridiculous.

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ETA: The only reason it is tested for is because it is illegal, which is completely ridiculous.

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But if they are incarcerated they cannot perform their job.

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but IMO it's dumb for the NFL as a whole.

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They want to provide good, clean entertainment for friends and families to watch, with admirable people on the field to further promote a good image and give kids real-life 'heroes' to aspire to be or be like. Felonies are not admirable.

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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.