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Fancy that, when you stop arresting kids for having a plant in their pocket more of them tend to go to college and more of them will sign up for basketball scholarships
But terrifies people looking for football scholarships?
Yeah, that part is weird. Maybe it's the brain damage talking? 🤷
That's not what the report is suggesting. It's suggesting that talented basketball players are more likely to go to a school in a state with legal weed.
That the feds really need to deschedule weed.
So what you're saying is that, if given a choice between being barred/denied entry over pot use, people will instead just go to places that allow it?
Not sure I'm seeing the difference between your point and OPs comment.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't OP stand for the post-poster, a.k.a. me?
It stands for "Original Poster," and from my understanding it's situational. Like during a comment chain it would be the original comment. I could be wrong, but that's how I've always interpreted it. /shrug
I mean, I read that cannabis actually causes brain damage in people who're underage, so there is a reason to treat it like tobacco.
Absolutely fair, unrestricted access to cannabis isnt the answer but let's not kid ourselves a cigarette is wildly worse than a joint from a legal dispensary. Plus right now if a kid gets caught with a cigarette the cop will at best haul them downtown to get picked up by a parent who they can use to shame the kid. Same kid with a joint can very realistically expect drug charges that stick with then into adulthood sapping the potential right out of their future
They should stop wasting money on sports and see that they finally get better at their actual job: educating young people.
So it's discovered that black persons who are stereotypically more into basketball were overwhelmingly charged over such stupid things as smoking weed, and that denied them any participation in schools' teams? How's that surprising lol.
So ...footballers need to smoke weed and become less aggressive?
I kid, but it would be funny if true.
Yeah. I'm think I'm awesome at shit too when I'm high.
What could be a possible explanation for the lower football turnout?
This is baseless bullshit but...maybe getting high makes people less likely to want to hurt other people? Which is kind of the whole thing with American football. Most of the game is "hit the opposing team as hard as you can"
Baseless speculation but in my experience the people more into joining a football team have been less the type to be pro weed. It’s definitely the more conservative of the major sports, especially after the CTE reveals.
What could be a possible explanation for the lower football turnout?
Weed.