Oh, we sucked every ass. But how did we do wrong by Flash? We just wanted him to run out there and catch stuff.
We didn't give him enough chances?
I hated seeing his career go to hell, he had so much talent. To be clear, I totally think weed should be recreationally legal, and de-scheduled federally. Hopefully the NFL and/or other leagues will adjust.
Even here in Ohio though, you can get a medical card and your job fire you for violating drug policy.
I used to smoke in my early 20's and decided I wanted a better job than the $20k entry-IT level job at the time and I knew not being able to pass a test would tank half my job market (the testers and the non-testers). Had to make the choice for my family and my own betterment to not do it.
I get the anxiety stuff, I suffer from it and PTSD. I have a prescription for it. I know some strains can help while others can make it worse, but there are also legal solutions to his ailments. As many have said, there's not a physical addiction to weed, it's very safe; especially considering what's in our medicine cabinets. However, these same guys are prescribed opioids for pain and such and do fine, but we wouldn't accept them using street heroin to self treat either. Somewhat ironically, weed should help lower their opiate usage from the team Dr. as well.
I'd love to see us federally legalize and the utilization be destigmatized. Until then, if you know you're going to get tested, making the choice to go ahead and smoke...he had to know what would happen. This is where you hope his support system can help him out, but his brother, if I recall correctly, was pretty heavy into the weed culture too, right? I seem to remember speculation about him (JG's brother) being Rastafarian? Makes it hard to step away from that if you're surrounded by it.
For the freedom to sell it topic, I see it getting treated and regulated like Alcohol when it's fully legalized. Dosing standards will become a thing. The legalized market has issues w/ experience consistency right now due to it being very difficult to get labs to test your product due to the federal ban. That's really the big domino to fall and after that, the rest can follow.