would you give up a millions of dollars to smoke pot ?
Ricky Williams did, and today its been announced that Onterio Smith, promising RB from MINN Vikings, now faces a 1 year suspension for a 3rd violation of league drug policy.
Ya'll might not have heard, but he was caught at an airport for what they though was drug paraphenelia, and it turned out to be the Original Whizzinator kit. This kit has an artificial penis attachment and you buy dehydrated urine, rehydrate it and take your pee test.
How strong is Pot ? Strong enough for these two fellows to give up what could be their NFL careers and millions of dollars too.
RE: would you give up a millions of dollars to smoke pot ?
There are many, many things I value more than money. Pot isn't one of them. I don't know why pro athletes like Williams are willing to throw their careers out the window over something like that. Getting buzzed on pot certainly feels good if you're into that kind of thing, but if I had that much to lose, I think I'd go find a legal way to get my kicks.
I have an employee who plays amateur football and doesn't understand it either, but he did tell me a lot of players smoke to easy muscle pain, much like MS patients. I suppose there's some truth to that, but I'd think the team doctor could come up with a legal treatment. Pro-sports medicine is a big business.
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I don't know why pro athletes like Williams are willing to throw their careers out the window over something like that.
Its highly addictive maybe ? YOUR mind it might not effect greatly, many minds it does and its an addiction for life.
Which got me to thinking ........ is smoking cigarettes were suddenly banned, could YOU quit smoking or chance the risk of getting fired for cigarettes ?
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Its highly addictive maybe ? YOUR mind it might not effect greatly, many minds it does and its an addiction for life.
Sure, it's addictive. But money is too. Psychological addiction seems to weigh more heavily in pot smokers, just like the greedy rich.
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Which got me to thinking ........ is smoking cigarettes were suddenly banned, could YOU quit smoking or chance the risk of getting fired for cigarettes ?
I don't smoke, so I can't say. But I'd rather have a job so I can support my standard of living then a cigarette that calms me down temporarily.
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In fact he might have quit smoking pot too.
Williams, who has lost nearly 30 pounds since retiring from the NFL, made the statement he had quit using marijuana in front of several people during a meeting regarding his paternity suit involving former South Florida resident Cherie Clark. Ricky said that he quit using the substance because it wasn't healthy for his ''Astro-body.'' Apparently, his travels down the road of spirituality have led him away from what was once the centerpiece of his belief structure; smoking marijuana. Either that, or this is part of some ploy to get himself back into the good graces of the Dolphins and the NFL.
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Williams won't be playing in 2004. In late July he made two related statements: that he was retiring from football, and that he found marijuana to be "10 times more helpful than Paxil" as a confidence builder. (Glaxo promptly purged him from the Paxil website.)
Retiring isn't an easy step. Williams's love for football is expressed in the pages of a journal he's been posting sporadically at runrickyrun.com. He has a clear, colloquial writing style -straight ahead, like his running style. If we're lucky, he'll soon explain his decision to leave the game, and keep us informed of his whereabouts.
Williams was facing a four-game suspension after testing positive for marijuana on two occasions, and he knew he had tested positive a third time. "I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test. I failed a drug test because I was ready to quit football," Williams told a writer he trusts, Dan Le Batard of the Miami Herald, on July 28.
"Williams said there were 'a hundred reasons' for his retirement and that his desire to continue smoking marijuana without inhibition was merely one of them," Le Batard reported. "He said he was not addicted to the drug, but merely that he didn't believe in government and NFL laws banning it. He said he had already decided to quit football even before testing positive a second time for marijuana use last season and incurring a $650,000 fine. He appealed that fine, flying to New York to argue his case before an arbiter with his attorney, but received word last week that his appeal had been denied.
"While the appeal was pending, Williams said he continued smoking marijuana while on tour with rocker Lenny Kravitz in Europe and failed a third test upon his return. He said he had been using a masking agent to cleanse his system while being randomly tested for two seasons, but said he didn't even bother before the last such test after returning from Europe."
"Williams failed his first drug test soon after arriving in Miami in 2002. He spent much of his two seasons with the Dolphins in the league's drug program, seeing a therapist weekly and subjected to eight to 10 random urine tests a month at his home.
"Williams said he continued smoking throughout his time as Dolphins, stopping only for a month here and there, but passed random tests by drinking 32 ounces of a masking agent called Extra Clean and chasing it quickly with 32 ounces of water...
"Williams, who suffers from social-anxiety disorder and was a spokesperson for the anti-depressant Paxil, said marijuana helped him once he had to stop using Paxil because it didn't agree with his diet.
"'Marijuana is 10 times better for me than Paxil,' he said. "Williams said he doesn't see anything wrong with marijuana because it is 'just a plant' and his hero, Bob Marley, admitted to smoking it daily. Williams has Marley tattoos all over his body, named his first child Marley and is friends with Marley's children."
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THe NFL has a joke for a steroid policy but don't smoke a joint.
They'll prescribe a player enough pain killers to kill a horse or take a player off the field and shoot them with demoral so they can finish a game but smoke a bong and your toast.
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