NBA players speak out on relaxing rules against marijuana use

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Well, it looks like the NBA is starting to say what the NFL has been saying for a couple of years now. They would rather use the pain relief of marijuana over using opiates. Saw a show on the VICE channel called Weedequette where they interviewed players who wanted to use marijuana over pharmaceuticals.

I can see their point. It's not physically addictive, and it helps with joint and muscle pain.

Also, the true "gateway drug" is alcohol. Why? Because we all know stories of people who drank too much and did something completely out of character for them......................going home with someone they normally wouldn't, saying stuff they normally wouldn't, etc. Alcohol has been PROVEN to lower inhibitions.

Funny thing about marijuana...................it has zero effect on your inhibitions. If you wouldn't do something sober, the chances of you doing it stoned is little to none. But, you would actually have to smoke some marijuana or eat some edibles to understand that one.

That’s a ruse to rationalize their intoxication.

A really good pure Indica strain is great for pain relief and helping you sleep. And, there are no physical side effects. I've met many of my fellow veterans who came back from the wars in the ME, who were put on 10 to 15 pills/DAY for PTSD and other conditions. When CO legalized it for recreational use, they decided to see if it helped. Many of them reduced down to 1 or 2 pills per day, and a lot of them were able to get off the pills altogether. And, they said that they were a lot healthier because they didn't have to endure the side effects of the pharmacy medicine.

And they should encourage kids to use it recreationally and inject it into other people’s systems, including children and infants?
Even Valium and barbiturates were created for medicinal reasons. Does that justify intoxication?

 

[Harry Dresden]

Well, it looks like the NBA is starting to say what the NFL has been saying for a couple of years now. They would rather use the pain relief of marijuana over using opiates. Saw a show on the VICE channel called Weedequette where they interviewed players who wanted to use marijuana over pharmaceuticals.

I can see their point. It's not physically addictive, and it helps with joint and muscle pain.

Also, the true "gateway drug" is alcohol. Why? Because we all know stories of people who drank too much and did something completely out of character for them......................going home with someone they normally wouldn't, saying stuff they normally wouldn't, etc. Alcohol has been PROVEN to lower inhibitions.

Funny thing about marijuana...................it has zero effect on your inhibitions. If you wouldn't do something sober, the chances of you doing it stoned is little to none. But, you would actually have to smoke some marijuana or eat some edibles to understand that one.

That’s a ruse to rationalize their intoxication.

A really good pure Indica strain is great for pain relief and helping you sleep. And, there are no physical side effects. I've met many of my fellow veterans who came back from the wars in the ME, who were put on 10 to 15 pills/DAY for PTSD and other conditions. When CO legalized it for recreational use, they decided to see if it helped. Many of them reduced down to 1 or 2 pills per day, and a lot of them were able to get off the pills altogether. And, they said that they were a lot healthier because they didn't have to endure the side effects of the pharmacy medicine.

And they should encourage kids to use it recreationally and inject it into other people’s systems, including children and infants?
Even Valium and barbiturates were created for medicinal reasons. Does that justify intoxication?

hey mister former pot smoker.....you dont inject pot....

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

I don’t wish evil on children. You do.
Pot Fuels Surge in Drugged Driving Deaths

yea i read this in there...

A separate study — also based on FARS data — found that in states where medical marijuana was approved, traffic fatalities decrease by as much as 11 percent during the first year after legalization. Written by researchers at the University of Colorado, Oregon and Montana State University, the paper was published in 2013 in the Journal of Law & Economics.

Those authors theorized pot, for some, becomes a substitute for alcohol. They cited a recent, 13-percent drop in drunk-driving deaths in states where medical marijuana is legal.

You go ahead and rationalize intoxication and your addiction. You’re a dangerously ignorant addict.
Maybe inject a little PCP in your system against your will and we’ll call it even.

learn what an addict is dumbass....and your ignorance of pot smoking is just as bad as your girlfriends....

You are ignorant. At least I respect people who have adverse reactions to substances and foods and don’t believe I can attack them with those substances and say I know more about their own physiology than they do. That would be the height of arrogance.
Nothing worse than arrogance rooted in ignorance.
I used pot probably before you were born so don’t even...

yea you smoked pot before.....you can tell by the fucking shit you say about it....and were did i not respect those with adverse reactions?...i have been commenting on the bullshit you have been throwing up here.....and you are right,nothing worse than arrogance rooted in ignorance......like your arrogance against ill people who have had positive results by using it.....

I smoked pot between 1970 and 1975. You speak arrogantly from abject ignorance. Not a good platform.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Well, it looks like the NBA is starting to say what the NFL has been saying for a couple of years now. They would rather use the pain relief of marijuana over using opiates. Saw a show on the VICE channel called Weedequette where they interviewed players who wanted to use marijuana over pharmaceuticals.

I can see their point. It's not physically addictive, and it helps with joint and muscle pain.

Also, the true "gateway drug" is alcohol. Why? Because we all know stories of people who drank too much and did something completely out of character for them......................going home with someone they normally wouldn't, saying stuff they normally wouldn't, etc. Alcohol has been PROVEN to lower inhibitions.

Funny thing about marijuana...................it has zero effect on your inhibitions. If you wouldn't do something sober, the chances of you doing it stoned is little to none. But, you would actually have to smoke some marijuana or eat some edibles to understand that one.

Not that I would ever do such a thing but i had girlfriends that would go home with some random guy, get them high on pot and walk out with their wallets. Even drunks notice getting rolled. Potheads just nod and agree.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

yea i read this in there...

A separate study — also based on FARS data — found that in states where medical marijuana was approved, traffic fatalities decrease by as much as 11 percent during the first year after legalization. Written by researchers at the University of Colorado, Oregon and Montana State University, the paper was published in 2013 in the Journal of Law & Economics.

Those authors theorized pot, for some, becomes a substitute for alcohol. They cited a recent, 13-percent drop in drunk-driving deaths in states where medical marijuana is legal.

You go ahead and rationalize intoxication and your addiction. You’re a dangerously ignorant addict.
Maybe inject a little PCP in your system against your will and we’ll call it even.

learn what an addict is dumbass....and your ignorance of pot smoking is just as bad as your girlfriends....

You are ignorant. At least I respect people who have adverse reactions to substances and foods and don’t believe I can attack them with those substances and say I know more about their own physiology than they do. That would be the height of arrogance.
Nothing worse than arrogance rooted in ignorance.
I used pot probably before you were born so don’t even...

yea you smoked pot before.....you can tell by the fucking shit you say about it....and were did i not respect those with adverse reactions?...i have been commenting on the bullshit you have been throwing up here.....and you are right,nothing worse than arrogance rooted in ignorance......like your arrogance against ill people who have had positive results by using it.....

I smoked pot between 1970 and 1975. You speak arrogantly from abject ignorance. Not a good platform.

It is said to be different now.

 

[Harry Dresden]

yea i read this in there...

A separate study — also based on FARS data — found that in states where medical marijuana was approved, traffic fatalities decrease by as much as 11 percent during the first year after legalization. Written by researchers at the University of Colorado, Oregon and Montana State University, the paper was published in 2013 in the Journal of Law & Economics.

Those authors theorized pot, for some, becomes a substitute for alcohol. They cited a recent, 13-percent drop in drunk-driving deaths in states where medical marijuana is legal.

You go ahead and rationalize intoxication and your addiction. You’re a dangerously ignorant addict.
Maybe inject a little PCP in your system against your will and we’ll call it even.

learn what an addict is dumbass....and your ignorance of pot smoking is just as bad as your girlfriends....

You are ignorant. At least I respect people who have adverse reactions to substances and foods and don’t believe I can attack them with those substances and say I know more about their own physiology than they do. That would be the height of arrogance.
Nothing worse than arrogance rooted in ignorance.
I used pot probably before you were born so don’t even...

yea you smoked pot before.....you can tell by the fucking shit you say about it....and were did i not respect those with adverse reactions?...i have been commenting on the bullshit you have been throwing up here.....and you are right,nothing worse than arrogance rooted in ignorance......like your arrogance against ill people who have had positive results by using it.....

I smoked pot between 1970 and 1975. You speak arrogantly from abject ignorance. Not a good platform.

wow thats a lot of smoking....a went from 1969 to around 85.....and quit with very little problems.....and most of the shit you say about smoking pot is abject ignorance.....you fell off your platform....

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Well, it looks like the NBA is starting to say what the NFL has been saying for a couple of years now. They would rather use the pain relief of marijuana over using opiates. Saw a show on the VICE channel called Weedequette where they interviewed players who wanted to use marijuana over pharmaceuticals.

I can see their point. It's not physically addictive, and it helps with joint and muscle pain.

Also, the true "gateway drug" is alcohol. Why? Because we all know stories of people who drank too much and did something completely out of character for them......................going home with someone they normally wouldn't, saying stuff they normally wouldn't, etc. Alcohol has been PROVEN to lower inhibitions.

Funny thing about marijuana...................it has zero effect on your inhibitions. If you wouldn't do something sober, the chances of you doing it stoned is little to none. But, you would actually have to smoke some marijuana or eat some edibles to understand that one.

That’s a ruse to rationalize their intoxication.

A really good pure Indica strain is great for pain relief and helping you sleep. And, there are no physical side effects. I've met many of my fellow veterans who came back from the wars in the ME, who were put on 10 to 15 pills/DAY for PTSD and other conditions. When CO legalized it for recreational use, they decided to see if it helped. Many of them reduced down to 1 or 2 pills per day, and a lot of them were able to get off the pills altogether. And, they said that they were a lot healthier because they didn't have to endure the side effects of the pharmacy medicine.

And they should encourage kids to use it recreationally and inject it into other people’s systems, including children and infants?
Even Valium and barbiturates were created for medicinal reasons. Does that justify intoxication?

hey mister former pot smoker.....you dont inject pot....

When you introduce something into your system you inject it. It’s not always intravenous.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

You go ahead and rationalize intoxication and your addiction. You’re a dangerously ignorant addict.
Maybe inject a little PCP in your system against your will and we’ll call it even.

learn what an addict is dumbass....and your ignorance of pot smoking is just as bad as your girlfriends....

You are ignorant. At least I respect people who have adverse reactions to substances and foods and don’t believe I can attack them with those substances and say I know more about their own physiology than they do. That would be the height of arrogance.
Nothing worse than arrogance rooted in ignorance.
I used pot probably before you were born so don’t even...

yea you smoked pot before.....you can tell by the fucking shit you say about it....and were did i not respect those with adverse reactions?...i have been commenting on the bullshit you have been throwing up here.....and you are right,nothing worse than arrogance rooted in ignorance......like your arrogance against ill people who have had positive results by using it.....

I smoked pot between 1970 and 1975. You speak arrogantly from abject ignorance. Not a good platform.

wow thats a lot of smoking....a went from 1969 to around 85.....and quit with very little problems.....and most of the shit you say about smoking pot is abject ignorance.....you fell off your platform....

You are ignorant. Pot causes devastating effects for some people. Why you refuse to get that through your skull is dumbfounding.
Read this link. It provides the best explanation...
Cannabis, marijuana, weed, pot, anxiety and panic attacks

 

[Harry Dresden]

Well, it looks like the NBA is starting to say what the NFL has been saying for a couple of years now. They would rather use the pain relief of marijuana over using opiates. Saw a show on the VICE channel called Weedequette where they interviewed players who wanted to use marijuana over pharmaceuticals.

I can see their point. It's not physically addictive, and it helps with joint and muscle pain.

Also, the true "gateway drug" is alcohol. Why? Because we all know stories of people who drank too much and did something completely out of character for them......................going home with someone they normally wouldn't, saying stuff they normally wouldn't, etc. Alcohol has been PROVEN to lower inhibitions.

Funny thing about marijuana...................it has zero effect on your inhibitions. If you wouldn't do something sober, the chances of you doing it stoned is little to none. But, you would actually have to smoke some marijuana or eat some edibles to understand that one.

Not that I would ever do such a thing but i had girlfriends that would go home with some random guy, get them high on pot and walk out with their wallets. Even drunks notice getting rolled. Potheads just nod and agree.

yea right....why do even tell these stories?....

 

[Harry Dresden]

Well, it looks like the NBA is starting to say what the NFL has been saying for a couple of years now. They would rather use the pain relief of marijuana over using opiates. Saw a show on the VICE channel called Weedequette where they interviewed players who wanted to use marijuana over pharmaceuticals.

I can see their point. It's not physically addictive, and it helps with joint and muscle pain.

Also, the true "gateway drug" is alcohol. Why? Because we all know stories of people who drank too much and did something completely out of character for them......................going home with someone they normally wouldn't, saying stuff they normally wouldn't, etc. Alcohol has been PROVEN to lower inhibitions.

Funny thing about marijuana...................it has zero effect on your inhibitions. If you wouldn't do something sober, the chances of you doing it stoned is little to none. But, you would actually have to smoke some marijuana or eat some edibles to understand that one.

That’s a ruse to rationalize their intoxication.

A really good pure Indica strain is great for pain relief and helping you sleep. And, there are no physical side effects. I've met many of my fellow veterans who came back from the wars in the ME, who were put on 10 to 15 pills/DAY for PTSD and other conditions. When CO legalized it for recreational use, they decided to see if it helped. Many of them reduced down to 1 or 2 pills per day, and a lot of them were able to get off the pills altogether. And, they said that they were a lot healthier because they didn't have to endure the side effects of the pharmacy medicine.

And they should encourage kids to use it recreationally and inject it into other people’s systems, including children and infants?
Even Valium and barbiturates were created for medicinal reasons. Does that justify intoxication?

hey mister former pot smoker.....you dont inject pot....

When you introduce something into your system you inject it. It’s not always intravenous.

in·ject
inˈjekt/
verb
gerund or present participle: injecting

1. 1.
   drive or force (a liquid, especially a drug or vaccine) into a person or animal's body with a syringe or similar device.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

That’s a ruse to rationalize their intoxication.

A really good pure Indica strain is great for pain relief and helping you sleep. And, there are no physical side effects. I've met many of my fellow veterans who came back from the wars in the ME, who were put on 10 to 15 pills/DAY for PTSD and other conditions. When CO legalized it for recreational use, they decided to see if it helped. Many of them reduced down to 1 or 2 pills per day, and a lot of them were able to get off the pills altogether. And, they said that they were a lot healthier because they didn't have to endure the side effects of the pharmacy medicine.

And they should encourage kids to use it recreationally and inject it into other people’s systems, including children and infants?
Even Valium and barbiturates were created for medicinal reasons. Does that justify intoxication?

hey mister former pot smoker.....you dont inject pot....

When you introduce something into your system you inject it. It’s not always intravenous.

in·ject
inˈjekt/
verb
gerund or present participle: injecting

1. 1.
   drive or force (a liquid, especially a drug or vaccine) into a person or animal's body with a syringe or similar device.

So when you inject yourself into a conversation you use a needle?

 

[Harry Dresden]

learn what an addict is dumbass....and your ignorance of pot smoking is just as bad as your girlfriends....

You are ignorant. At least I respect people who have adverse reactions to substances and foods and don’t believe I can attack them with those substances and say I know more about their own physiology than they do. That would be the height of arrogance.
Nothing worse than arrogance rooted in ignorance.
I used pot probably before you were born so don’t even...

yea you smoked pot before.....you can tell by the fucking shit you say about it....and were did i not respect those with adverse reactions?...i have been commenting on the bullshit you have been throwing up here.....and you are right,nothing worse than arrogance rooted in ignorance......like your arrogance against ill people who have had positive results by using it.....

I smoked pot between 1970 and 1975. You speak arrogantly from abject ignorance. Not a good platform.

wow thats a lot of smoking....a went from 1969 to around 85.....and quit with very little problems.....and most of the shit you say about smoking pot is abject ignorance.....you fell off your platform....

You are ignorant. Pot causes devastating effects for some people. Why you refuse to get that through your skull is dumbfounding.
Read this link. It provides the best explanation...
Cannabis, marijuana, weed, pot, anxiety and panic attacks

and anybody who smokes it knows if its something they can handle the first or second time they smoke it....if they continue,thats on them....you would know this if you actually smoked more than a few joints....

 

[Wyatt earp]

If I'm a coach - I would much rather see one of my payers smoke weed for pain management and stress then drink like a fish and/or take prescription pain meds after every game. The time has come to realize that good people and great athletes DO smoke pot.

<snips>

During his 15-year NBA career, Matt Barnes developed a reliable game-day routine. First there was the morning shoot-around. Then he'd go home for a rest, where he'd do what so many NBA players do during those long afternoons: nap, shower, eat a meal.

But before all that, he'd smoke a joint.

"It wasn't every single game, but in 15 years, it was a lot," Barnes told Bleacher Report in a roundtable discussion about marijuana use in sports published this week.

Any best games?

"All my best games I was medicated," Barnes said.

Reports of widespread marijuana use among pro athletes aren't new, nor are calls for a relaxation of its restriction in sports leagues. Newly retired tight end Martellus Bennett recently told Chris Simms and Adam Lefkoe on their podcast that "about 89 percent" of NFL players use marijuana and that they turn to it as a natural alternative to prescription painkillers. Scaife, who played tight end in the league for six seasons, put the number at about 80 percent. Former Chicago Bulls guard Jay Williams once estimated that 75 to 80 percent of NBA players use marijuana.

Former quarterback Jake Plummer wrote a piece for Sports Illustrated in 2016 calling cannabis "an alternative to the harmful narcotics used today by NFL teams who have been reluctant to embrace new research on hemp-based solutions." Martin told Bleacher Report's roundtable that he thinks marijuana reduced the pain from his multiple major surgeries, while Barnes said it helped with his back, toe and finger injuries while also helping him sleep.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told Bleacher Report that the league is "interested in better understanding the safety and efficacy" of medical marijuana. The NFL, meanwhile, has offered to work with the players association in studying the potential uses of marijuana for pain management. Union chief DeMaurice Smith has talked about finding a "less punitive" approach, saying " it's important to not simply assume recreation is the reason it's being used."​

MOAR:

'All my best games I was medicated': Matt Barnes on his game-day use of marijuana

I would rather have them drink like a fish

 

[Harry Dresden]

A really good pure Indica strain is great for pain relief and helping you sleep. And, there are no physical side effects. I've met many of my fellow veterans who came back from the wars in the ME, who were put on 10 to 15 pills/DAY for PTSD and other conditions. When CO legalized it for recreational use, they decided to see if it helped. Many of them reduced down to 1 or 2 pills per day, and a lot of them were able to get off the pills altogether. And, they said that they were a lot healthier because they didn't have to endure the side effects of the pharmacy medicine.

And they should encourage kids to use it recreationally and inject it into other people’s systems, including children and infants?
Even Valium and barbiturates were created for medicinal reasons. Does that justify intoxication?

hey mister former pot smoker.....you dont inject pot....

When you introduce something into your system you inject it. It’s not always intravenous.

in·ject
inˈjekt/
verb
gerund or present participle: injecting

1. 1.
   drive or force (a liquid, especially a drug or vaccine) into a person or animal's body with a syringe or similar device.

So when you inject yourself into a conversation you use a needle?

i hope you are being facetious....

 

[BoSoxGal]

Alcoholics say the same thing. Their best work was when they were drunk.

Only you say that about yourself. Meanwhile the athletes have trophies and medals.

And some of the greatest literaries and musicians in history were drunks.
You want children to emulate potheads. There is a place in hell for your ilk.

I want them to do great things. If they want to smoke pot when they grow up, well, at least they’re using the safest drug in existence instead of the far more dangerous legal drugs that you support. Burn in hell, you inbred trash.

Marijuana use linked to greater psychosis risk in teens

Essentially debunked by recent research:

Harvard: Marijuana Doesn't Cause Schizophrenia

Marijuana Risk For Psychosis Much Lower Than Previously Thought, Though Certain Patients Shouldn't Smoke

Some of the effects of some strains of marijuana mimic psychosis, but it’s a temporary effect that doesn’t persist beyond the high. True organic psychosis is rare, and scientists and physicians now believe that the link between organic psychosis and marijuana is due to those with serious mental illness (schizophrenia, etc.) using mj to self medicate - not that mj causes those illnesses.

The most current research shows that marijuana alleviates the symptoms of anxiety, depression, PTSD and other mental disorders and is a net benefit to most mental health sufferers. It is contraindicated for sufferers of serious psychotic disorders.

Current research is also being done into the remarkable curative powers of ketamine and LSD in treating PTSD among military combat veterans; it is likely that will become a standard treatment within the next couple of decades.

In the future our descendants will look back on you rabid teetotalers and consider you barbarians responsible for the suffering of millions of people - by denying them remarkable, natural, non-addictive medicines, and by incarcerating millions of people for possessing, sharing and using it.

 

[BoSoxGal]

Only you say that about yourself. Meanwhile the athletes have trophies and medals.

And some of the greatest literaries and musicians in history were drunks.
You want children to emulate potheads. There is a place in hell for your ilk.

I want them to do great things. If they want to smoke pot when they grow up, well, at least they’re using the safest drug in existence instead of the far more dangerous legal drugs that you support. Burn in hell, you inbred trash.

I don’t wish evil on children. You do.
Pot Fuels Surge in Drugged Driving Deaths

Of course you do. As a republican, you support slashing funding for programs that help keep youths off the street and helps them with addiction. As a republican, you support big pharma spreading opioids throughout the country. As a republican, you oppose the safest alternative to alcohol and painkillers that has ever existed.

You are again, sadly, on the wrong side of history. So no point really in further discussion.

They don't need help with addiction. They are doing fine on their own. No one holds them down and shoves opiods into their system.

Let them die. They will always be no more than addicts.

What are your feelings about George W. Bush? You know, the former president? He was a cocaine addict and alcoholic. Are you suggesting he was never more than an addict?

How about Rush Limbaugh? Former opioid addict.

I have no respect for Limbaugh, but with your sanctimony I’m assuming you are a right wing conservative so I’m using those examples.

I could name hundreds of well known, highly productive people who beat substance use disorder and went on to contribute greatly to the public good, through service, art, sport, etc. They are the public face of the millions of regular people who have done the same.

Addict is a pejorative moniker no more useful than druggie or junkie; medicine recognizes substance use disorder as a disease, and moral judgment has no place in the conversation. What we now know about brain science and the mechanism by which some people become hopelessly addicted to prescribed opioids while others experience no ill effects has made clear that the pejorative judgmental language of old has no place among civilized people.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Alcoholics say the same thing. Their best work was when they were drunk.

Only you say that about yourself. Meanwhile the athletes have trophies and medals.

And some of the greatest literaries and musicians in history were drunks.
You want children to emulate potheads. There is a place in hell for your ilk.

I want them to do great things. If they want to smoke pot when they grow up, well, at least they’re using the safest drug in existence instead of the far more dangerous legal drugs that you support. Burn in hell, you inbred trash.

Marijuana use linked to greater psychosis risk in teens

Essentially debunked by recent research:

Harvard: Marijuana Doesn't Cause Schizophrenia

Marijuana Risk For Psychosis Much Lower Than Previously Thought, Though Certain Patients Shouldn't Smoke

Some of the effects of some strains of marijuana mimic psychosis, but it’s a temporary effect that doesn’t persist beyond the high. True organic psychosis is rare, and scientists and physicians now believe that the link between organic psychosis and marijuana is due to those with serious mental illness (schizophrenia, etc.) using mj to self medicate - not that mj causes those illnesses.

The most current research shows that marijuana alleviates the symptoms of anxiety, depression, PTSD and other mental disorders and is a net benefit to most mental health sufferers. It is contraindicated for sufferers of serious psychotic disorders.

Current research is also being done into the remarkable curative powers of ketamine and LSD in treating PTSD among military combat veterans; it is likely that will become a standard treatment within the next couple of decades.

In the future our descendants will look back on you rabid teetotalers and consider you barbarians responsible for the suffering of millions of people - by denying them remarkable, natural, non-addictive medicines, and by incarcerating millions of people for possessing, sharing and using it.

What is it about pot advocates that make them devoid of conscience?
I don't need a study to try tell me that what pot did to me and others didn't really happen. It did, it does.
Very arrogant.

 

[BoSoxGal]

Only you say that about yourself. Meanwhile the athletes have trophies and medals.

And some of the greatest literaries and musicians in history were drunks.
You want children to emulate potheads. There is a place in hell for your ilk.

I want them to do great things. If they want to smoke pot when they grow up, well, at least they’re using the safest drug in existence instead of the far more dangerous legal drugs that you support. Burn in hell, you inbred trash.

Marijuana use linked to greater psychosis risk in teens

Essentially debunked by recent research:

Harvard: Marijuana Doesn't Cause Schizophrenia

Marijuana Risk For Psychosis Much Lower Than Previously Thought, Though Certain Patients Shouldn't Smoke

Some of the effects of some strains of marijuana mimic psychosis, but it’s a temporary effect that doesn’t persist beyond the high. True organic psychosis is rare, and scientists and physicians now believe that the link between organic psychosis and marijuana is due to those with serious mental illness (schizophrenia, etc.) using mj to self medicate - not that mj causes those illnesses.

The most current research shows that marijuana alleviates the symptoms of anxiety, depression, PTSD and other mental disorders and is a net benefit to most mental health sufferers. It is contraindicated for sufferers of serious psychotic disorders.

Current research is also being done into the remarkable curative powers of ketamine and LSD in treating PTSD among military combat veterans; it is likely that will become a standard treatment within the next couple of decades.

In the future our descendants will look back on you rabid teetotalers and consider you barbarians responsible for the suffering of millions of people - by denying them remarkable, natural, non-addictive medicines, and by incarcerating millions of people for possessing, sharing and using it.

What is it about pot advocates that make them devoid of conscience?
I don't need a study to try tell me that what pot did to me and others didn't really happen. It did, it does.
Very arrogant.

Perhaps you have a serious mental illness that accounts for your negative experience with marijuana?

But you don’t get to make up your own science based on anecdotal evidence - talk about arrogance.

Again, moral judgment has no place in the conversation. Your insistence on belaboring that one note tune says a lot about your constipated intellect.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Seriously, this is about a bunch of black guys who are dope addicts. Let them, I mean they are black, why would we care?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

If I'm a coach - I would much rather see one of my payers smoke weed for pain management and stress then drink like a fish and/or take prescription pain meds after every game. The time has come to realize that good people and great athletes DO smoke pot.

<snips>

During his 15-year NBA career, Matt Barnes developed a reliable game-day routine. First there was the morning shoot-around. Then he'd go home for a rest, where he'd do what so many NBA players do during those long afternoons: nap, shower, eat a meal.

But before all that, he'd smoke a joint.

"It wasn't every single game, but in 15 years, it was a lot," Barnes told Bleacher Report in a roundtable discussion about marijuana use in sports published this week.

Any best games?

"All my best games I was medicated," Barnes said.

Reports of widespread marijuana use among pro athletes aren't new, nor are calls for a relaxation of its restriction in sports leagues. Newly retired tight end Martellus Bennett recently told Chris Simms and Adam Lefkoe on their podcast that "about 89 percent" of NFL players use marijuana and that they turn to it as a natural alternative to prescription painkillers. Scaife, who played tight end in the league for six seasons, put the number at about 80 percent. Former Chicago Bulls guard Jay Williams once estimated that 75 to 80 percent of NBA players use marijuana.

Former quarterback Jake Plummer wrote a piece for Sports Illustrated in 2016 calling cannabis "an alternative to the harmful narcotics used today by NFL teams who have been reluctant to embrace new research on hemp-based solutions." Martin told Bleacher Report's roundtable that he thinks marijuana reduced the pain from his multiple major surgeries, while Barnes said it helped with his back, toe and finger injuries while also helping him sleep.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told Bleacher Report that the league is "interested in better understanding the safety and efficacy" of medical marijuana. The NFL, meanwhile, has offered to work with the players association in studying the potential uses of marijuana for pain management. Union chief DeMaurice Smith has talked about finding a "less punitive" approach, saying " it's important to not simply assume recreation is the reason it's being used."​

MOAR:

'All my best games I was medicated': Matt Barnes on his game-day use of marijuana

Liberals and their penchant for listening to athletes and hollyweird.....I bet you take a teenagers advice on gun control...oh wait!