What needs to be discovered is, are we talking the continual recreational use of marijuana, including sale? Or addiction to a hard drug. When I say addiction, I'm asking the question is he an addictive personality in reference to drugs.
Is that why he went to stay at a drug rehabilitation center or not? Or was it a introduction to the dangers of Marijuana type of thing. Totally different problems as far as I'm concerned.
Don't tell me Danny and other GM's don't know the answer to this question. Any GM that is seriously considering drafting him, would be lax if they didn't investigate if the kid is an actual addict.
If he's a drug addict, sorry it would be no go for me. That's a life long battle.
If we're talking about smoking pot, and getting caught a few times, (I would hope they tested other members of the team), because I wish I had a dollar for every basketball player, high school, college, or pro's that has smoked marijuana. Many of these kids come from inner city low income lifestyles.
Hopefully he now understands that he will be under scrutiny from the NBA for his entire career and has learned his lesson. Smarten up, be an adult, Case closed.
Yeah, 'cause it's rare that middle class, suburban white kids ever smoke pot.
Obvs. That's why the war on drugs only really targets people from inner city low income lifestyles, because they're the only ones doing it.
Oh dear god - wow .
Some of you are not getting my point. I don't want to get into a social debate about do kids from inner city deal with drugs differently than middle class youth.
That's all I'm saying is, there is a big difference from being addicted to a class C drug, and casual user of marijuana. I understand white middle class kids smoke pot too, that's not the point. Don't be purposefully obtuse.
I have not heard one actual fact about exactly what the complete story was in reference to Robert Upshaw...is he an actual addict or young man that had errors in judgement. My point is, I find it difficult to believe the GM's of the NBA don't know exactly what the whole story is. They couldn't possibly make a sensible decision in drafting him.
I fully understand that the general public (us), are not entitled to know the entire story.