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| Currently, the window for the NFL’s annual marijuana testing opens on April 20 (yep, 4/20) and lasts until early August. Which means that players who hope to stay on the right side of the program need to get clean roughly a month before 4/20 and stay clean until they’re tested, with the test coming as late as August. The new CBA, if accepted by the players, would reduce the duration of the testing window dramatically. Per multiple sources, the window for annual testing would be open for only two weeks. This reduces significantly the amount of time each year that players would have to refrain from using marijuana, if they aren’t already in the program (and thus subject to enhanced testing). As one source explained it, a new CBA also would include dramatically reduced penalties, with suspensions happening only in the event of extreme and repeated disregard of the policy or significant violations of applicable law regarding the possession and use of marijuana. So while it won’t be legalized within the NFL’s internal judicial system, it will be largely decriminalized — and the effort to catch violators will be dramatically curtailed. |
You know what I'm getting at.
I worked for one of the biggest companies in the world and didn’t get tested. There is no mandate to test.
That’s just absolutely not true.
And weed should be federally legal recreationally.
It is absolutely sick they push pain killers that literally kill people, not to mention addictive. They WERE pushing that and probably still are, but players found out real quick, the medical benefits.
A two week window is like saying "Look, it's legal, but for 2 weeks let us save face for the board." or some shit like that.
If I were a player, I'd do a class action suite or something like that against the NFL. You don't have to even win it, you just put it all on the line and you force their hand.
this is a super interesting opinion, i'd love to hear more
What if he was drunk?
I don't think this testing policy would mean players can get high before playing and more than the current alcohol policy means they can be drunk and play.
You seem really stressed. I have just the remedy to help you chill out. It’s herbal.
Yeah, all of us who don't get drug tested at work routinely show up high with no consequences.
Of course they can allow it. They don’t need to test for it.
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you pay some guy $10 million a year and what if you find out he's dropping passes because he got high before the game?
Yeah, all of us who don't get drug tested at work routinely show up high with no consequences.
If a player drops passes he will get cut.
It doesn’t really matter why.
Does the NBA have a problem with guys not performing due to pot?
not to miller the thread, but i hope we never go to a 17 game schedule. injuries already play too large a role in determining the best team. i'd rather go back to 14 games than go to 17 games.
Too much common sense in this post.
Read my post about above.
Since the Senate and even the House to some extent, are severely over-represented by rural and conservative states yes there are too many who have antiquated views of the 420.
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shouldn't Congress pass a bill to make it as legal as alcohol? Are there so many old folks still in Congress that view pot as a dangerous Schedule 1 drug?
Since the Senate and even the House to some extent, are severely over-represented by rural and conservative states yes there are too many who have antiquated views of the 420.
Wouldn’t some of those rural states like to grow it?
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shouldn't Congress pass a bill to make it as legal as alcohol? Are there so many old folks still in Congress that view pot as a dangerous Schedule 1 drug?
Since the Senate and even the House to some extent, are severely over-represented by rural and conservative states yes there are too many who have antiquated views of the 420.
Wouldn’t some of those rural states like to grow it?
for sure, i would think the farmers would be all in. But most if not all of these rural states don't even have legalized medical. they're pretty far away from embracing it.
Honestly, our drug policy has created so many more problems. If drugs were legal at least people would be able to get clean drugs. People that want to do drugs are going to do drugs. But we are essentially poisoning a ton of people because we like to lord some sense of morality over other's decisions. Portugal's policy is really the way to go. But instead we have fentanal, shitty poisonous cocaine, and meth because hey you can make it with a bunch of dangerous chemicals.
I've noticed a lot of people love to preach about drugs that really don't understand the root causes of why people take them. One is to party, no problem there. The other is because their lives are miserable so they turn to drugs to escape. People love blaming shit on others or circumstances, so the drugs are an easy scapegoat.
What we should be really looking at is fixing these people's lives before they turn to drugs to escape, and building a society where people don't need to escape constantly. There are just too many people in this country with no hope and don't have a chance, and is only going to get worse with automation and as technology eliminates jobs. Fixing education would be a start so more people are fit for the high skilled future we are living.
Blame medical science and research for being behind with the times.