(01-10-2015, 05:15 PM)Redrum link Wrote:Any school can impose its special rules or stupid rules (or hold to old standards) and its still a free choice. There might be a lot of coaches in America who don't want their kids using drugs (for logical reasons or less-than-logical reasons) regardless of what is legal or illegal. If a kid wants to consider whether a school allows or bans marijuana use, they're free to consider that in their school decision... and explain it to their parents.
If it were a matter of individual school or team choice, I wouldn't have as much trouble with it. However, that's not what's going on. The testing is mandated by the NCAA and it covers drugs listed by the NCAA regardless of whether they are legal. There is no choice. One cannot be a college athlete anywhere without submitting to this ridiculous scheme.
I am opposed to unnecessary prohibitions. My objection is based partly on believing in free choice but mostly on the adverse consequences of prohibition. Alcohol and pot prohibition just makes things worse. In my college days, drinking and pot laws were not enforced around college campuses. Students went to wine and cheese receptions put on by the school. A student could go out for dinner and a pitcher. We walked back to the room. Since then, college drinking has been criminalized and pot laws have been taken seriously. The result has been binge drinking and deaths. Sickening.
