No one is disagreeing that pot can reduce anxiety. Continuing to post the fact that is stipulated too doesn't prove what you're saying. Yes, studies confirm that it can reduce anxiety. That's not the part we're disagreeing about. Then you posted a link to your own comment, which I should be able to learn what…

In summary: different sports have different rules, therefore racism.

I don't disagree that WADA doesn't want to punish recreational use, or that pot can help with anxiety. I've just never heard anyone say that they test for it because it unfairly helps with anxiety. I'm not going to google to make your point for you. If you'd like to present a quote that makes your case, paste that…

No, I'm trying to get to your initial point. You started by cherry picking examples from baseball (where leaving the dugout is okay, but punching isn't) and hockey (where punching is not punished as severely as you'd like but leaving the bench to do it draws an ejection). You presented the half of each of those…

Only reason it missed is that too many folks are presenting this as their serious argument. It's getting harder every day to parody conservatives, since they just keep going further right than seems possible.

Get fucked, carprosam, that's very funny.

Link isn't working for me. But the quote here is interesting and does nothing to support your point re: anxiety.

Why is race only at issue in the major sports? That response was a pretty aggressive pivot away from the point you were making and to which I was responding.

Because the games weren't all invented at the same time by the same people and don't owe each other any sort of uniformity in rules. What are your feelings about boxing? MMA? Should they be illegal? Repetitive, subconcussive contact like blocking in football is considered more likely to be causing the most serious…

Did you write "When a player steps away from the bench area in basketball during an altercation, that player is immediately ejected and faces a mandatory suspension." Is that also true of hockey? Yes. That was my point.

In trying to leave the same comment you did, I learned how to give yours a star and somehow found your comment out of thin air. New Kinja is full of fun surprises. Lucky me.

I think this is the wrong website for your comment, but otherwise I support it fully.

what's the difference between minor leaguers and major leaguers that means that one is impacted by smoking while the other is immune to it?

Seems like the pot was treating it just fine. Many anxiety meds have side effects ranging all the way to suicide. Weed doesn't and was working for him. Similarly, Ricky Williams was perfectly productive as a pothead and said it was a significant help with anxiety — why should anyone have a problem with that?

I was so sure you were going to say excel at something enough to merit others giving a fuck about you. That would have also been true.

Marijuana is tested for because it's an illegal drug, not because it reduces anxiety. Otherwise seeing a dr to reduce anxiety would be illegal too. So would drugs used to treat ADD. And they aren't. No one considers reducing anxiety to be a form of performance enhancement. That's just dumb.

Minor league players have no collective bargaining rights. They are also paid less than minimum wage (there's just recently been a lawsuit being filed over their pay). In the majors the players have to agree with the league on the testing rules. I don't think the NBA tests for pot. The NFL only does it once or…

Nowhere as simple of a question as you think it is. People get addicted to dopamine release and drugs, sex, chocolate, basically anything can cause that. You're not wrong that he has problems, but that's exactly what predisposes someone like him to addictions. He can absolutely swap weed for booze, or coke, or…

The "strict rules" thing is a joke. You can still target knees and be just fine. In fact it's increasing because players are scared to make head contact and get fined. Along the offensive line about 15 times a season DEs and DTs accuse the O-line of cutting knees with an intent to injure. It's absolutely part of…

At the very least, there's some evidence of them in Washington, Buffalo, Houston and Tennessee. Granted those are all Williams' coaching stops and there's some debate about whether all or some existed but they are also probably before he learned how to use powerpoint to document the whole damn thing. There's…