50% of NFL players smoke marijuana?

Short-term.

As I understand it, YF's assertion is that these big young black bucks overcome their compulsive inability to turn down the chronic via their behemoth physicality.

The well-bred, pasty investment bankers, on the other hand, are able to stay away from it, knowing as they do that such indulgences are a one-way ticket out of their trade, success in it relying as it does on discipline and self-denial rather than intelligence and a WASP pedigree.

 

Cocaine remains the Official Drug of Wall St.

 

I wonder if the fathers of the 50% of NFL players got high all the time.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/01/my-dad-will-never-stop-smoking-pot/283085/

 

I would be surprised if it's as low as 50 percent. The testimonials about the NBA are that you have a hard time finding anyone who doesn't smoke it. I don't know why the NFL would be different.

That Sam Hurd story SI did sure made it sound like Hurd had an outsized popularity on the Cowboys solely because of the weed he carried.

 

I would think the NFL's number would be significantly less than the NBA. I'm sure it's used, but there are so many guys in the NFL who are just batshit crazy about everything they put in their bodies... I know it wouldn't be the first time people say, "I don't touch anything with white starches or wheat or sugar, but pass the weed..." But the number of 50 percent seems about twice what I would guess it to be. I think it might be 50 percent with certain positions. When I covered the NFL, the guys who would joke about smoking weed always seemed to be defensive linemen and defensive backs.

25 percent is still a pretty high number.

 

I think you're being awfully naive.

Many of these guys are choosing between pot and a legal, accepted, liver-destroying prescription pill. For all of YF's mock fainting spells about marijuana, that isn't a difficult choice.

 

YF's goal is to have nothing but marijuana threads on the first page, isn't it?

 

Maybe... I don't know... The number just seems high. I remember reading something about how the league tests for pot use at the same time each year so it's easy to know when it's coming. It's also a test that is pretty easy to beat.

I wouldn't blame any of them for using it. I think it should be legal and I don't think it should be tested for.

 

Let's be real. The pain relief that comes from smoking marijuana is fleeting. If they wanted to use THC for pain relief, they'd take a pill. They're smoking pot to get high:

 

And?

This is fascinating to see you get so worked up on this one solitary topic.

 

Everyone needs a hobby.