First, let me say I don't think either of you are racist, not in the slightest. I apologize if you took my post that way...

 

My issue is this... I think if you compared the percentage of white players that smoke weed and the percentage of black players that smoke weed, the difference wouldn't be as great as I think you all are making it out to be. On a personal level, more of my white friends smoke weed than the black ones... Not sure we can apply that to professional athletes, but that's what I base my opinion on.

 

I think this is the one reason why there are many suburban families, regardless of race, who say, "never thought it would happen to us, but it can happen anywhere" when talking about their kid's drug use. Look no further than the thread on heroin in NKY. Not trying to compare using heroin and using marijuana, just saying that it kind of illustrates a different line of thinking on drug use when it comes to older generations versus younger ones.

:lol: :lol:

 

No comment.

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This article is pretty funny / interesting, but the comments at the bottom are priceless.

 

Top 5 Weedhead Athletes | News One

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This article is pretty funny / interesting, but the comments at the bottom are priceless.

 

Top 5 Weedhead Athletes | News One

 

 

Jabar but no Walton? I guess they were just going for the weed and not weed + psychadelics.

Typically, but not always, something that is against the law is pretty much collectively by society considered and understood as "bad", and although laws are consistently broken, most of the time you won't even hear those who break them try to defend their right to break them. They may lie or distort the truth about having broken said law, but most of the time, and even in this ever changing dysfunctional gobsmacking world, most can comprehend the "bad" in their actions, even though they may not be so thrilled about serving time or paying fines related to it. Of course, you'll also have multitudes of criminals repetitively breaking laws to the point that they've lost all consciousness in comprehending the bad in their actions, or have become delusional that they no longer, even if they ever did, see the bad. Or perhaps they just don't care.

 

With that said, you then have the topic of Marijuana and its ever changing sharp societal division related to it being "bad" or "not bad". Is it "bad" because the law and some in society deem it as such? Is it "not bad" because multitudes of others deem it as such?

 

For the most part, It appears that "it is in itself what it is", and perhaps there is no actual concrete definitive answer to the "bad" or "not bad" question, for as many people there are in the world, it's definition and perception of "bad" or "not bad" can be varied to many different degrees, and it's usage for some versus others perhaps could be, and obviously is "bad", and "not bad" depending on their own personal experience with it.

 

I've heard some define it as "bad" simply because it is "against the law", as if something "against the law" is something that just always was back to the dawn of man, and they seem to not recognize that it took certain human beings in power at some point in our history to deem it as such, for the various reasons it was deemed as such, when it was deemed as such, during the time in our history that it was so deemed as such.

 

Y'know what I'm sayin'?

 

That's cool I suppose, and respect their steadfast honor of the law no if's, and's, or but's, but personally their position to me is a bit childlike in its naivete. Typically though, those that feel that way also have never experienced it (not saying they should), and have had a history of growing up with the perception of it being "bad" for whatever reasons they've felt that way, or were swayed that way.

 

I do recall at around the age of 11 while in total submission to the guidance of my elders, and society's laws, and very little life experiences of my own, either in action or thought, confiding in a friend that marijuana was bad and that I would never do it. Mind you, at this age I had already snuck booze on a few occasions, and sometimes with this same friend, knowing that I was wrong in doing so at my tender age, but because I already had the perception that it wasn't too big of a deal considering society's acceptance of it, and that it was a "legal" substance, I did it anyway with excitement, as well as the fear of my parents finding out. Then I promptly threw my guts up.

 

Fast forward a few more years, my curiosity of Marijuana began to increase, overshadowing my fear of, and resistance towards it. I tried it. I loved it. I giggled a lot. Music was ever so groovier than it already was. I did not stagger like I would have being drunk, and while shooting hoops, I even became more focused, and my finesse blossomed. I was in the zone. I did not puke. I did not have a hangover or a pounding headache. Nothing about it seemed terribly wrong. Everything about it seemed wonderfully right. I really couldn't see why I was lead to believe while growing up that it was "bad" I knew not to drive on it, and made sure to exercise the responsibility not to. Sometimes I'd feel like taking a little nap as it wore off, and sometimes it just wore off, and that was that.

 

Through peer pressure I still drank throughout my teens, but really didn't care much for it, but if a doobie surfaced amongst friends, I was all over it knowing that my enjoyment was just about to peak. I never felt any physical addiction to it, and when it wasn't available, I never suffered any withdrawal. When I felt a desire for it, it wasn't much different than how I felt if Mom was baking brownies... yum... (regular brownies, that is). Some of those childhood friends continued to partake strongly with alcohol, and have had lifetime issues related it to it. I backed away from booze only doing it in a very infrequent fashion, and marijuana never presented me with anything but a good time and an abundance of creative juices. There was no doubt in my mind what substance was more dangerous for me.

 

I do not partake much in either alcohol or marijuana these day but once in a very great while, and I bet that you all can guess which one I'd be more inclined to do, when I do. I can completely relate to Neil Young in his recent admittance that he's chilled on smoking, as he has nothing against it, but after being a daily smoker, he's come to a place where he wasn't feeling a great desire to buzz all the time, and was OK without it, and wanted to try out buzz-freeness just to experience that as well for a change of pace. It was just a personal choice on his part, and it wouldn't surprise me if he partook once in awhile just for the hell of it knowing that it wouldn't give him any troubles, and that he has just placed it as a rare occasional treat in his life, instead of wearing out a good thing.

 

With all of that said, and with society's ever changing attitude in favor of Marijuana, and a few different states legalizing it, I feel that when someone is busted for it in illegal states, it's just a bit goofy and unfortunate considering the jury is still out and very much divided on it. They'll do their time and pay their fine, and in a few years with the loss of their job and loads of money, the state they were busted in will probably legalize it as they sit back and ponder how their situation in life went through its bumps for something that they can now partake in legally.

 

It's just time to face it and decriminalize it, and stop all of the nonsense. Who are we kidding? Any clear thinking adult should know by now that it's really a stupid thing to have to suffer scorn over. People are going to do it whether or not it's legal or not, and whatever problems we presently experience by irresponsible users of it now, will still exist if it were legal. Do people drive on it now? They will then as well, and if they do, they should pay the consequences. If you're of the mind that if it's legal people will drive on it, then I'd suggest that you immediately start a campaign to criminalize alcohol.

Typically, but not always, something that is against the law is pretty much collectively by society considered and understood as "bad", and although laws are consistently broken, most of the time you won't even hear those who break them try to defend their right to break them. They may lie or distort the truth about having broken said law, but most of the time, and even in this ever changing dysfunctional gobsmacking world, most can comprehend the "bad" in their actions, even though they may not be so thrilled about serving time or paying fines related to it. Of course, you'll also have multitudes of criminals repetitively breaking laws to the point that they've lost all consciousness in comprehending the bad in their actions, or have become delusional that they no longer, even if they ever did, see the bad. Or perhaps they just don't care.

 

With that said, you then have the topic of Marijuana and its ever changing sharp societal division related to it being "bad" or "not bad". Is it "bad" because the law and some in society deem it as such? Is it "not bad" because multitudes of others deem it as such?

 

For the most part, It appears that "it is in itself what it is", and perhaps there is no actual concrete definitive answer to the "bad" or "not bad" question, for as many people there are in the world, it's definition and perception of "bad" or "not bad" can be varied to many different degrees, and it's usage for some versus others perhaps could be, and obviously is "bad", and "not bad" depending on their own personal experience with it.

 

I've heard some define it as "bad" simply because it is "against the law", as if something "against the law" is something that just always was back to the dawn of man, and they seem to not recognize that it took certain human beings in power at some point in our history to deem it as such, for the various reasons it was deemed as such, when it was deemed as such, during the time in our history that it was so deemed as such.

 

Y'know what I'm sayin'?

 

That's cool I suppose, and respect their steadfast honor of the law no if's, and's, or but's, but personally their position to me is a bit childlike in its naivete. Typically though, those that feel that way also have never experienced it (not saying they should), and have had a history of growing up with the perception of it being "bad" for whatever reasons they've felt that way, or were swayed that way.

 

I do recall at around the age of 11 while in total submission to the guidance of my elders, and society's laws, and very little life experiences of my own, either in action or thought, confiding in a friend that marijuana was bad and that I would never do it. Mind you, at this age I had already snuck booze on a few occasions, and sometimes with this same friend, knowing that I was wrong in doing so at my tender age, but because I already had the perception that it wasn't too big of a deal considering society's acceptance of it, and that it was a "legal" substance, I did it anyway with excitement, as well as the fear of my parents finding out. Then I promptly threw my guts up.

 

Fast forward a few more years, my curiosity of Marijuana began to increase, overshadowing my fear of, and resistance towards it. I tried it. I loved it. I giggled a lot. Music was ever so groovier than it already was. I did not stagger like I would have being drunk, and while shooting hoops, I even became more focused, and my finesse blossomed. I was in the zone. I did not puke. I did not have a hangover or a pounding headache. Nothing about it seemed terribly wrong. Everything about it seemed wonderfully right. I really couldn't see why I was lead to believe while growing up that it was "bad" I knew not to drive on it, and made sure to exercise the responsibility not to. Sometimes I'd feel like taking a little nap as it wore off, and sometimes it just wore off, and that was that.

 

Through peer pressure I still drank throughout my teens, but really didn't care much for it, but if a doobie surfaced amongst friends, I was all over it knowing that my enjoyment was just about to peak. I never felt any physical addiction to it, and when it wasn't available, I never suffered any withdrawal. When I felt a desire for it, it wasn't much different than how I felt if Mom was baking brownies... yum... (regular brownies, that is). Some of those childhood friends continued to partake strongly with alcohol, and have had lifetime issues related it to it. I backed away from booze only doing it in a very infrequent fashion, and marijuana never presented me with anything but a good time and an abundance of creative juices. There was no doubt in my mind what substance was more dangerous for me.

 

I do not partake much in either alcohol or marijuana these day but once in a very great while, and I bet that you all can guess which one I'd be more inclined to do, when I do. I can completely relate to Neil Young in his recent admittance that he's chilled on smoking, as he has nothing against it, but after being a daily smoker, he's come to a place where he wasn't feeling a great desire to buzz all the time, and was OK without it, and wanted to try out buzz-freeness just to experience that as well for a change of pace. It was just a personal choice on his part, and it wouldn't surprise me if he partook once in awhile just for the hell of it knowing that it wouldn't give him any troubles, and that he has just placed it as a rare occasional treat in his life, instead of wearing out a good thing.

 

With all of that said, and with society's ever changing attitude in favor of Marijuana, and a few different states legalizing it, I feel that when someone is busted for it in illegal states, it's just a bit goofy and unfortunate considering the jury is still out and very much divided on it. They'll do their time and pay their fine, and in a few years with the loss of their job and loads of money, the state they were busted in will probably legalize it as they sit back and ponder how their situation in life went through its bumps for something that they can now partake in legally.

 

It's just time to face it and decriminalize it, and stop all of the nonsense. Who are we kidding? Any clear thinking adult should know by now that it's really a stupid thing to have to suffer scorn over. People are going to do it whether or not it's legal or not, and whatever problems we presently experience by irresponsible users of it now, will still exist if it were legal. Do people drive on it now? They will then as well, and if they do, they should pay the consequences. If you're of the mind that if it's legal people will drive on it, then I'd suggest that you immediately start a campaign to criminalize alcohol.

 

Bravo sir......

Thank goodness UK doesn't have any NFL caliber players or that 75% number would be on the rise.

Timing is everything!

 

So yesterday I inadvertently found myself talking to a college football player and a high school athlete. I asked the college football player if all the guys on the team drank beer. He immediately said yes, then I asked him about pot, he started to give a negative response and then quickly lit up and said "the black players smoke pot." Then the high school athlete chimed in and said "exactly, all the black players at my school smoke pot."

 

I realize that is anecdotal evidence but just wow on the timing.

Black guys smoke pot because they don't have the resources to get a fake ID to buy alcohol. You don't need an ID for weed. White guys can buy alcohol with a McLovin ID.

 

That's why black guys smoke pot and white guys drink Natty Ice. :lol:

Timing is everything!

 

So yesterday I inadvertently found myself talking to a college football player and a high school athlete. I asked the college football player if all the guys on the team drank beer. He immediately said yes, then I asked him about pot, he started to give a negative response and then quickly lit up and said "the black players smoke pot." Then the high school athlete chimed in and said "exactly, all the black players at my school smoke pot."

 

I realize that is anecdotal evidence but just wow on the timing.

 

:lol:

Black guys smoke pot because they don't have the resources to get a fake ID to buy alcohol. You don't need an ID for weed. White guys can buy alcohol with a McLovin ID.

 

That's why black guys smoke pot and white guys drink Natty Ice. :lol:

 

When I was in HS though the stores down in the projects in Covington were the easiest purchase places.

Timing is everything!

 

So yesterday I inadvertently found myself talking to a college football player and a high school athlete. I asked the college football player if all the guys on the team drank beer. He immediately said yes, then I asked him about pot, he started to give a negative response and then quickly lit up and said "the black players smoke pot." Then the high school athlete chimed in and said "exactly, all the black players at my school smoke pot."

 

I realize that is anecdotal evidence but just wow on the timing.

 

Perception is a funny thing isn't it? I've been laughing about it for years. Pardon the stereotype, but especially "white jocks" and their misguided sense of entitlement, and dear old dad just keeps passing along those hilarious traditions to their "chip off the old block".

Black guys smoke pot because they don't have the resources to get a fake ID to buy alcohol. You don't need an ID for weed. White guys can buy alcohol with a McLovin ID.

 

That's why black guys smoke pot and white guys drink Natty Ice. :lol:

 

Yuck! I'm all against smoking pot...but if given the decision between having to drink a Natty Ice and toking one up...roll me a fatty, sir.:isurrender: