I'm still waiting for somebody to correct me on pro football's stance regarding the relative evils of killing by driving drunk and simply smoking pot.
It's a little confusing coming from an organization that condones the savaging of its employees bodies and encourages them to play injured and through pain. Anybody truly believe the NFL doesn't benefit from performance enhancement drugs.
So when one of their players kills somebody. Not a big deal. But smoking pot, now that's another ball game. I blogged elsewhere:
NFL says ok to kill while DUI but no smoking pot : DUI Law Blog: "Thanks for the message NFL. If I'm reading you right, you are saying:
a) Killing is okay; but
b) If you smoke pot, well that's just not the kind of example we want around.
So kids, here's the thing. Chose your idols wisely because it may turn out that our supercool drunken killer actually likes to smoke pot."
(Via DUI Law Blog.)
We are so numb to violence in our society that we actually look at smoking a little pot as worse than killing. Does this make sense to anybody?
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