I challenge anyone to name even a single person who benefited from these players receiving marijuana misdemeanors. Marijuana is not a performance enhancing drug. A player who chooses to relax with marijuana in his own time instead of alcohol or tobacco is not a person who needs to be punished!

Marijuana is the safest recreational drug on the planet, it is so non-toxic researchers can't even determine if it has an LD50. It has NEVER caused a single known fatality in the entire two hundred thousand year history of human existence. Compare that to alcohol and tobacco!!

The only crime in possessing marijuana is the fact it's illegal, but the law that controls it is not one that can be repealed if society ever deems it necessary. The law keeping marijuana illegal is protected by an obligation placed on the DEA which mandates it to take such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize it.

Under these conditions we simply cannot say "it's illegal so these players shouldn't have used it", because the protection placed on the law prevents it ever becoming legal, no matter how compelling the evidence.

Instead of punishing these players we need to call on Congress to remove this obligation from the DEA and allow the prohibition laws to stand or fall based solely on the actual risks associated with marijuana!

Society needs to know that the laws that govern it can be repealed if repeal is necessary. It is intolerable to be governed by laws that can never even be questioned.

As expected, Jameel Owens, as well as high school teammate Stacey McGeee, both committed to Oklahoma earlier tonight, according to rivals.com.

Agreed. Is there really that much difference between an 18-year-old and a 19-year-old? I don't think so. Paige, Brimfield and Jones should never be allowed to host a recruit again. Too many other mature kids for that mess. What's wrong with Denarius Moore and Austin Rogers hosting a receiver? Or Josh Briscoe and Tyler Maples?

Was the road to ruin started by a specific substance or by the mindset that says fun includes (or mandates) drugging oneself into insensibility?

Maybe some of these people get intoxicated to remove personal responsibility for their behavior.

If a person has an unexpected reaction to a medicine or is slipped a drug without their knowledge,then they have no more control over any unfortunate events than someone impaired by brain injury or illness.

If someone uses a substance that he knows can bring harm to himself or others,he's more like the person who drives blindfolded on purpose or fires a gun indiscriminately.

His "recreation" is more important than the well-being of others.

Blaming the drug has denied us useful and benign products and caused the unscrupulous to cultivate plants that are more dangerous than the originals and to create a succession of synthetic drugs that are "one molecule away" from being illegal.

Perhaps,the focus should be on the ones who put things into their bodies that they know will reduce their judgement and self-control.

Maybe,we ought to concentrate less on the tools people use to ruin their lives and more on why it's become a sign of power and maturity to throw away one's ability to perceive accurately and act responsibly.

There are too many people who haven't the choice about whether they can think and act in a functional manner.

Those who can and choose to disable their minds for amusement may not have had much intellect for drugs to destroy.

The "forbidden fruit",hedonistic culture feeds that selfishness and self-hatred and helps create the unwitting and unwilling addicts as well.

I'm not downplaying the dangers of drugs but even if legalization drove the criminal element out of business and even if some version of nalaxone removed all physical dependency on drugs and some innocuous product took the place of current "recreational" substances,we would not be without the people who choose damaging activities for kicks.

They'd just find their outlets somewhere else.