Pot is not performance enhancing, so it should be of no concern to the league office (absent other factors like DUI).


 

Since it can adversely affect performance it should still be a team's concern.

 

 

Agreed. The league should let the teams decide what should be done here.

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They give up so much for so little.  What a shame.

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So what? It's not in any way a performance enhancer, so why does the league even care to ban it? I can understand why the league wouldn't want a player high on the field, but if he's smoking a little during his time off, why should that result in missing games?

 

Who knows, but it's the teams themselves that form the league, so apparently the overall sentiment of the league ownership is that they don't want potheads to be the identity of the league. Saying the league should let the teams do what they want is silly, sure the Browns would want to make all the excuses in the world for Josh Gordon, but the rest of the league doesn't want to allow them to do that.

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Though pot is starting to get acceptance....it's still not acceptable to the nFL.

If you accept the terms of employment there.....you agree not to smoke. That's it pure and simple.

 

When you do you have violated those terms and give up potentially hundreds of thousands (or more) dollars.

To me you also need your head examined. $$$ in one hand or a baggie in the other. DUH.

 

It's not about its legal here and there, its not about how fair it is. It's about what you agreed to do and haven't done.

 

This isn't Cheech and Chong football. :no:

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Because Jaguars is our mantra 

So what? It's not in any way a performance enhancer, so why does the league even care to ban it? I can understand why the league wouldn't want a player high on the field, but if he's smoking a little during his time off, why should that result in missing games?

Who's really to blame here? If someone told you that you could potentially make millions of dollars playing a kid's game and all you have to do is not smoke pot for a couple of years (or at least not get caught) what would you do? If anything these guys getting caught should be required to submit to a physiological eval as its obvious something is wrong upstairs if you're giving up hundreds of thousands, if not millions, to smoke a joint.


When I signed on with my current employer, in my contract I agreed to abstain from drugs and to submit to random drug test periodically. If I decide to get high tonight and I happen to get called in for a urine test in the morning should I get mad at the employer when they ask me for my badge and escort me out of the building that afternoon? No, I was fully aware of the consequences involved.

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