Marijuana tourist Zeke

[plymkr]

Ok cool, so the drug testing window is closed. Does someone who knows more about the rules of the NFL drug program than I do know of any clauses or exceptions that would cause a player to be tested if there is a suspicion that he's doing drugs. So what I'm asking is Elliott at risk for the NFL to suspect he may be smoking weed and randomly test him or is that against policy and they have to wait till next year to do it?

 

[Denim Chicken]

Ok cool, so the drug testing window is closed. Does someone who knows more about the rules of the NFL drug program than I do know of any clauses or exceptions that would cause a player to be tested if there is a suspicion that he's doing drugs. So what I'm asking is Elliott at risk for the NFL to suspect he may be smoking weed and randomly test him or is that against policy and they have to wait till next year to do it?

From what I've read, you have to have a initial positive test (thus entering the program) to be subject to randoms. If you fail for weed in the NFL, you are basically an idiot or have real problems.

 

[DallasCowboys2080]

lol and marijuana is a schedule 1 drug (a category that includes other drugs like heroin and LSD, and is ranked higher than schedule 2, where cocaine and meth remain) shows you the idiocy and hypocrisy of all this. the feds believe there is no medical value in marijuana. what a joke.

that being said UNFORTUNATELY Zeke needs to be beyond reproach. He is a lightning rod for attention right now being a Dallas Cowboy and a potential star RB.

 

[plymkr]

From what I've read, you have to have a initial positive test (thus entering the program) to be subject to randoms. If you fail for weed in the NFL, you are basically an idiot or have real problems.

Gotcha, so as far as we know he won't be randomly tested because of this little visit to the pot shop. He would have had to fail a test prior to 8/9 to be entered into the program. Thanks, that helps ease concerns for him.

 

[JohnsKey19]

I'm not a starting RB in the NFL with TMZ idiots tracking my every move, but I would do the exact same thing out of curiosity.

 

[glimmerman]

So you're saying he's in the program? Because if he's not, he's not getting put into it for walking into a store and walking out without buying anything. Confidential or not, they can't randomly test guys - it's not in the collective bargaining agreement. They can test between April and the middle of August, then they only test guys in the program.

I think they test all the NFL players. Not just ones in the program.

 

[JDSmith]

I think they test all the NFL players. Not just ones in the program.

They do, but only during a specified window which ended August 9 or so. After that there is no testing for players until April unless they are in the drug program.

 

[casmith07]

Exactly. He will be scrutinized but the silliness stops there. It's legal in the state of Washington. For someone still living in one of our backwards traditional states that refuse to embrace it as normal, touring a Mary Jane store in a legal fashion is the equivalent of taking an 8 hour drive to spend 3 days at Disnelyand. It's cool...

I'll say it now just for GP. By 2020, Mary Jane will be legal nationally and it will be taxed no different than tobacco when sold legally.

Doubtful by 2020.

But Oregon has already pulled in $26M in tax revenue this year in sales of marijuana and other THC-centric products.

If you do simple (very simple) math, that's approximately $39M annual tax revenue. Multiply it by 50 and it's $1.95 trillion.

That's a lot of tax revenue.

It has second and third order effects as well (positive effects), but I won't get into it here with all these old fuddy-duddies getting their panties in a bunch.

 

[JDSmith]

Doubtful by 2020.

But Oregon has already pulled in $26M in tax revenue this year in sales of marijuana and other THC-centric products.

If you do simple (very simple) math, that's approximately $39M annual tax revenue. Multiply it by 50 and it's $1.95 trillion.

That's a lot of tax revenue.

And a lot less people they have to arrest and put in the system. A guy I went to high school with is doing 50 years for growing pot. The judge apologized handing down the sentence, but it was mandatory. The system will be caring for that guy until he dies.

 

[Denim Chicken]

I think they test all the NFL players. Not just ones in the program.

Not randomly. They know when the tests are.

 

[casmith07]

And a lot less people they have to arrest and put in the system. A guy I went to high school with is doing 50 years for growing pot. The judge apologized handing down the sentence, but it was mandatory. The system will be caring for that guy until he dies.

Yeah. The taxpayer burden for something like that is a number I would hate to see.

 

[rynochop]

And a lot less people they have to arrest and put in the system.s.

That's part of it too, prisons big business