I think we will find harder drugs than pot.

Pot isn’t a PED. They shouldn’t test for it. Peroid.

It IS not lethal, it DOESN’T contribute to domestic violence and driving fatalities like America’s favorite drug, ah hem: Miller Park, Coors Field, Busch stadium. Come on. Wake up and smell your other drug-laced socially acceptable coffee drink. Hippocrates!

If you support 50 game suspensions for a guy potentially taking a toke or two off a joint while watching a Simpsons episode, because it’s simply “against the law”, would you also support 50 game suspensions for an act that has proven deadly and would seriously damage the team and the integrity of MLB athletes?

Laws which are just should be self-evident.

Which doesn’t belong and why?:

It’s wrong to kill or harm another person.

It’s wrong to steal or deceive another person for personal gain.

You will not ingest or possess a natural grown plant which has never been attributed to the death of a single person, except in the act of supplying or depriving individuals of the right to ingest such a plant.

… btw, before during and after matches the club ingested several chilled bottles of Jagermeister . . . which, I guess, kind of makes the 2011 Red Sox look like experimenting high schoolers.

This is as succinct an accounting as I have ever seen . . . from a word origin research website called TakeOurWordForIt.com:

What about the origin of the word marijuana? It was deliberately foisted upon the American public by a single FBI agent – Harry J. Anslinger. The FBI was created in order to fight the U.S.A.’s previous war on drugs – the prohibition of alcohol – and when “prohibition” ended many assumed that the FBI would be disbanded. Faced with the possibilty of having to find another job, agent Anslinger decided to whip up a drug scare, and he chose cannabis. The horror stories he told about this herb were completely fictitious and almost entirely racist. As part of his propaganda campaign he deliberately eschewed the English word hemp, the botanical term cannabis (from which we get canvas) and the users’ word: muggles. The word he chose was an obscure Mexican slang term (derived from Maria Juana “Mary Jane”, originally a brand of cheap cigarettes) in order to exploit the xenophobia of the public. Anslinger succeeded in making marijuana illegal by convincing the public that the plant would render decent white women susceptible to seduction by black men!

All of which has been stated with much more words and detail in actual history books, but I figured this was a good quick accounting of why using “marijuana” to refer to Cannabis is really just honoring Harry Anslinger’s unconscionable career advancement propaganda campaign.

When the War on Drugs is put in the context of the truth of Harry Anslinger’s career – it should be easy for rightminded reasonable people to understand why truth seeking, free thinking people would have very little patience for the continued corrupt lie that is the War on Drugs, which incidentally, was Nixon’s antidote to his perceived the political enemies . . . the hippies. Nixon resigned in 1974. It’s 2012 and his moralizing anti-American political weapon is still in place strengthened and solidified by corporate special interests and constrained judges while entertaining dimbwits on shows like COPS, violating civil rights, incarcerating non-violent minorities, entrenching misery in the inner cities as well as the heartland – and leaving a path of destruction and death in its wake that is so hard to justify that most of us rather just pretend it doesn’t exist.

Otherwise, buddy, you sure hit that nail on the head.

But hey, to each their own.

Employers are not the police and don’t really have a role in enforcing laws that are violated off the clock and not on work premises. If they did, NO one would have a job, since the average American commits around 3 felonies per day and everyone breaks laws just in the act of living.

But the Stallworth/Vick disparity is an amazing hypocrisy.