Thread: Colts' LaVon Brazill suspended for at least one year

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap200...least-one-year

The NFL continues to roll out the pre-holiday sanctions.

Indianapolis Colts wide receiver LaVon Brazill has been suspended for at least one year without pay for violating the NFL's Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse, reports NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport.

After failing multiple drug tests, Brazill was tagged with a four-game ban to start the 2013 season. He acknowledged last summer that it was time to choose between "money or marijuana."

meanwhile



Dion Jordan suspended four games for PED violation

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He acknowledged last summer that it was time to choose between "money or marijuana."

This needed to be said? Wow...

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Originally Posted by ShaneFalco

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap200...least-one-year



This needed to be said? Wow...

Yeah, if that's a tough decision for you, you have some serious issues you need to deal with.

He acknowledged last summer that it was time to choose between "money or marijuana."

I know some people can function just fine as casual users and put the weed down and walk away whenever they want to but some clearly can't. Yet all we ever hear is that marijuana is "harmless". Well, if you have to decide between smoking grass or earning a living and you can't put the weed down, I'd have to say it isn't "harmless".

Originally Posted by OrangeHoof

I know some people can function just fine as casual users and put the weed down and walk away whenever they want to but some clearly can't. Yet all we ever hear is that marijuana is "harmless". Well, if you have to decide between smoking grass or earning a living and you can't put the weed down, I'd have to say it isn't "harmless".

People enjoy it just like anything else. It's giving up something he enjoys. Because he doesn't want to give up something he likes doesn't mean it's addictive or harmful.

He's young and apparently an idiot. Next man up. Hopefully he's prepared to do something else in life.

Yes, weed can be addictive. Pretty much anything that alters brain chemistry can become an addiction. Sex, weed, booze-you can get hooked on the shit
http://gottlieb.radio.cbssports.com/...ijuana-addict/

Originally Posted by tomjonesrocks

People enjoy it just like anything else. It's giving up something he enjoys. Because he doesn't want to give up something he likes doesn't mean it's addictive or harmful.

He's young and apparently an idiot. Next man up. Hopefully he's prepared to do something else in life.

So the fact that weed could end his career and make him go broke isn't harmful?

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

So the fact that weed could end his career and make him go broke isn't harmful?

No. Some people just make bad decisions.

Also, guns don't kill people, people kill people.

Originally Posted by tomjonesrocks

No. Some people just make bad decisions.

Also, guns don't kill people, people kill people.

Smoking weed once and getting caught is a bad decision. Doing it over and over and getting caught again and again and having your career as a pro athlete ruined because of it is called an addiction.

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

Smoking weed once and getting caught is a bad decision. Doing it over and over and getting caught again and again and having your career as a pro athlete ruined because of it is called an addiction.

That's what so scary about Von Miller. He's already had two strikes. The next is a year's suspension and after that, the next one and he's history. People can say that the NFL is just run by a bunch or old fogeys and behind the times yada yada but not doing drugs is still a prerequisite for being employed as an NFL player where you are highly compensated to play a game. If you have to think for even 10 seconds about whether it is worth smoking that doob or risking $10 million, you've got a major problem.

what some people dont seem to understand, is that the culture is changing, and most people dont really care at this point. Some people are just at the point where its like " im going to do what i want, and if they want to fine/suspend/or whatever for me doing something that is completely harmless, then they can go for it"

much like this

http://nypost.com/2014/07/02/this-ba...ers-to-majors/

“I’ll just smoke my way onto the 40-man,” the player said.

What i do find odd, is that people want to jump on the marijuana addiction bandwagon, instead of asking why marijuana suspensions go up to a year versus the 4 games that PEDs get.

Originally Posted by ShaneFalco

what some people dont seem to understand, is that the culture is changing, and most people dont really care at this point. Some people are just at the point where its like " im going to do what i want, and if they want to fine/suspend/or whatever for me doing something that is completely harmless, then they can go for it"

much like this

http://nypost.com/2014/07/02/this-ba...ers-to-majors/

What does this have to do with NFL drug policy? As of today, pot is a banned substance in the NFL. If you get caught smoking it time and time again, at the detriment to your career, you're addicted to it.

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

What does this have to do with NFL drug policy? As of today, pot is a banned substance in the NFL. If you get caught smoking it time and time again, at the detriment to your career, you're addicted to it.

Or you just dont care about the NFL drug policy because its a joke.

Which it is.

In what world should year long suspensions be doled out for pot while PEDs get 4 games?

Originally Posted by ShaneFalco

Or you just dont care about the NFL drug policy because its a joke.

Which it is.

And you get suspended and eventually lose your job. Not liking a rule or not caring about it isn't a valid reason not to follow it.

Originally Posted by ShaneFalco

Or you just dont care about the NFL drug policy because its a joke.

Which it is.

In what world should year long suspensions be doled out for pot while PEDs get 4 games?

These suspensions and fines are negotiated with the Players Union as part of the Collective Bargaining Agreement that most pro sports leagues have. IOW, the brothas done sold you out. If you can convince more than half that there should be no punishment for doing drugs, they can take it up with the owners at the next contract. Until then, you gotta lay off or expect to get disciplined. Simple as that.