With the exception of the Pope (lol) I am pretty sure at least 1 of those names mentioned has smoked. If I was in the NBA I wouldn't make an effort to appease people worried about their children. I don't care about your children, I don't like children, I refuse to change my lifestyle for children I will never meet, take care of your own children, my job would be to play basketball, not raise your kids.
YOU don't care, but the "NBA Cares". Why do you think the NBA has its players doing all these charitable work? Do you think all of them absolutely love doing these things? It's to please the fans. And most fans love their kids. How would it be like if you're an NBA player, go to a school to talk to them about studying hard, not joining gangs, blah blah and then you go light a blunt? Kids are easily influenced. Do you want your son to grow up doing drugs? Maybe you do, but I'm sure most people don't. I don't know how true this is, but someone told me that smoking weed fries your brain cells and eventually kill them? Is this why it's illegal? Because you can't grow back brain cells. So slowly you become stupider the more you smoke?
If that was true, would California have Medical mar1juana available? It has more positives than negative. Studies have been done that show mar1juana is not cancerous. The whole brain cells myth is probably the biggest misconceptions about weed. One of the major reason Its illegal because the government can't make max money off of it. Any average joe can grow their own weed instead of buying it from the store. If it was easy to brew your own alcohol, do you think it still would be legal? You act like Josh Howard came out and told kids they should smoke weed because it makes you play better. All he said was he smoked in the offseason. He didn't advocate it or advertise it like a beer commercial.
I should have stopped reading when you said Condoleeza Rice was a good role model..... And your last couple sentences make you sound like an ignorant cracker. "Thuggish Attire" , That is all perception..... That is normal attire to MANY, MANY people......... You better check yourself if you don't think that the "influential" people you just mentioned don't/did'nt get high......... Influentials that have smoked weed...... • Abbie Hoffman • Abraham Lincoln. On a Hohner box cover but disputed. • Al Gore. • Aldous Huxley • Aleister Crowley • Alexander Dumas • Alice B. Toklas • Allen Ginsberg. Poet. • Alexis Korner. Musician. • Andy Warhol. Artist. • Annita Roddock. Founder 'The Body Shop'. • Anjelica Huston. Hollywood actress. Jack Nicholson's girlfriend for 17 years. Pro-drug statements by her in Peter McWilliams book, 'Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country'. • Arthur Conan Doyle. Author, creator 'Sherlock Holmes'. • Aswad. Musicians. • Beatles. • Bill Clinton. • Bill Gates. Not confirmed, just very strongly hinted at in the Playboy interview • Bill Murray Arrested for possession • Bob Denver. • Bob Dylan. Poet, singer, song writer. • Bob Marley. Poet, singer, song writer. • The Bishop of Monmouth. • Brian Eno. Singer, song writer. Signed 'Independent' list. • Boy George. • British Lords & MP's - too many to list . • Buddy Rich. • Cab Calloway. Jazz musician. • Carl Sagan. Author. • Caroline Coon. Artist, founder 'Release', manager of the Clash. • Carl Segan . Author. • Carlos Santana. Musician, guitarist. • Carrie Fischer. • Cary Grant. • Cary Mullis. Nobel Laurate, Biology • Charles Beaudelaire • Charles Dickens. Claims but no evdience. • Cheech Marin. • Chris Armstrong. Footballer, tested positive. • Chris Conrad. • Chris Farley. 60's singer. • Chris Rock. • Conan O'Brian. • Count Basie. Jazz legend. • Dame Ruth Runsiman. Author; Police Federation Report (March 2000) advising liberlization. • Dave Gilmour . Musician ; Pink Floyd. • Dave 'Tinki Winky' Thompson - TV personality (UK); the Tellie Tubbie that was sacked. • Diego Rivera. • Dion Fortune. • Dioscorides. • Dizzy Gillespie. • Douglas Adams. Author. • Dr Francis Crick. Nobel Prize winner. • Dr Lester Grinspoon. • Dr Mark Porter. TV doctor who says cannabis is not more harmful than alcohol. • Dr Anne Biezanek (authoress) • Dr R.D.Laing. • Dr John Marks • Dr W.B. O'Shaugnessy. • Drew Barrymore. • Duke Ellington. • Eddie Ellison. Ex head of Scotland Yard Drug Squad. • Edgar Allen Poe. Author, multi-drug user. • Elvis Presley. Singer, FBI informer. • Emperor Liu Chi-nu. • Emperor Shen-Nung. • Ernest Hemmingway. Author. • Errol Flynn. • Fela Kuti. Musician. Afro/jazz king. • Felix Dennis. Publisher. • Fitz Hugh Ludlow. • Fran Healey. Musician; Travis. • Francis Ford Coppella. • Francis Rabelais. • Francis Wilkinson. Ex Chief Constable of Gwent Police. • Fredreich Nietzshe. • Ganesh - Hindu God. • Gary Johnson. • Gene Krupa. • George Clinton. Ex President's brother. • George W Bush. Possibly the greatest living hypocrite. • George Gurdjieff. • George Melly. Jazz musician (early sponsor of Legalise Cannabis Campaign, Uk). • George Michael. Singer. • George Washington. • George Soros. • Gerard de Nerval. • Gilberto Gil. Brazilian musical icon. • The Greatful Dead. • Hasan I-Sabah. • Heinrich Khunrath. • Helen Petrova Blavatsky. • Henri Michaux. • Herman Hesse. • Hiero the Second. • Howard Marks. Author, cannabis smuggller. • Howard Stern, Admitted it on the radio. • Hua T'o. • Hunter S. Thompson. Smoked weed and snorted coke with George Bush. • Ian Botham. Convicted Cricket legend. • Irvine Welsh. • Kurt Cobain. • Jabir Ibn el-Hayyan. • Jack Herer. Author 'The Emporor Wears No Cloths' • Jack Kerouac. Author ' On the Road'. • Jack Nicholson. Film actor. • Jackie Gleason. • Jackson Pollock. • Jane Fonda. Actress. • James Brown. Singer, song writer. • Janis Joplin. Singer, song writer. • Jesse 0Ventura. • Jerry Lee Lewis. Musician, song writer. • Jimmy Dorsey. • Jimmy Hendrix. Rock guitarist, singe, song writer • Jim Morrison. Musician, songwriter; The Doors. • Joan of Arc. Accused of using 'witch herbs' (another name for cannabis). • Joan Rivers. • Joe Strummer. Musician, singer, songer writer; The Clash. • John Belushi. • John Denver. • John F Kennedy. Popular US president (assassinated). • John Keats. Poet. • John Lennon. Musician, song writer; The Beatles. • John Le Mesurier. Tried it but said it's not for him. • Johnny Cash. • John Peel. DJ, BBC broadcaster. • John Sinclair. • Judge John L. Kane. Chief Judge from the US District Court • Julie Christie. Actress. • Jules Verne. • John Wayne. 'I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.' • Kelsey Grammar. • Ken Livingston. Mayor of London - supports decriminalisation but does not smoke or support the use of recreational drugs. • Kirk Douglas. Actor. • Kurt Cobain. • Larry Adler. Harmonica player and friend of George Gershwin. May have written a song about it. • Lenny Bruce. Comedian. • Lewis Carroll. Author 'Alice in Wonderland'. • Linda St Clair • Little Richard. Musician. • Lord Avebury. • Lord Byron. Poet. • Lord Deedes. • Lord Tony Gifford. QC, civil rights lawyer. • Louis Armstrong. 'Oh what a wonderful world'. • Louis Hebert. • Mark Thomas . Comedian. • Marlon Brando. Actor. • Martin Sheen. • Mary Shelly. Author 'Frankinstein'. • Mary Tyler Moore. • Mick Jagger. Singer, song writer, The Rolling Stones. • Michael Mansfield QC. Lawyer. • Jade Jagger. • JC 100. Fastest rapper in the west. • JT Moore. Legendary white rasta guitarist. • Mike Tyson. • Miles Davis. Jazz/rock drummer. • Mo Mowlan. Genuine honest politician. • Modigliani. Sculptor. • Montgomery Clift. Mentioned in his biography. • Neil Diamond. • Nick Hornby. Author. • Niel Young. Musician. • Norman Mailer. Author. • Oasis. Rock band. • Oliver Stone. • Oscar Wilde. Poet. • Pablo Picasso. Artist. • Pancho Villa. Mexican bandit revolutionary. • Paul Flynn. Uk Member of Parliament. • Paul McCartney. Musician, song writer; The Beatles. • Paul Simon. Musician, song writer. • Pharoahs of Egypt. Traces in body samples. • Phil Donohue. • Phil Tufnell. Former test cricketer, now media celeb. • Peter Fonda. Actor; 'Easy Rider'. • Peter Sellers. Actor, comedian. • Peter Tosh. Musician. • Philip K. Dick. Science fiction author. • Pierre Burton. • Pierre Elliot Trudeau. • Pink Floyd; Syd Barret and Roger Waters. • Prince Charles. Heir to the Throne. Quoted while visiting a hospital; 'I understand cannabis is good for medical use' . • Prince William. • Prince Harry. • Pythagoras. • Queen Arnegunde. • Queen Victoria. Used it for medical purposes. • Ram Dass. • Ray Charles. Musician. • Rev Kenneth Leech. • Richard Branson. 'Virgin'. Entreprenur. • Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize Laureate physicist, founder of quantum electrodynamics. • Richard Prior. • Richard Wilson. Actor; 'One Foot in the Grave'. • Rimbaud. Author. • Robert Burns. Mentioned it in a poem. • Robert 'King' Carter. Grower. • Robert Anton Wilson. Author. • Robert Mitchum. Jailed 90 days for possession of mar1juana, 1949. • Roger McGough. 60's liverpool poet. • Rolling Stones. Rock band. • Ronnie Scot. Jazz club owner, musician, busted on stage 1958, at his club in Soho, London. • S Club 7. 'Super clean' pop band, busted in Soho, very embarrassing. • Salvador Dali. Artist. • Samuel Beckett. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Poet. • Shen Nung. One of the fathers of Chinese medicine. 2700 B.C . • Sinead O'Connor. Singer. • Sidi-Hidi. • Sigmun Freud. Shrink. • Sonny Bono. • Super Furry Animals. Welsh band who wrote a song about Howard Marks. • Stephen King. • Sting/Gordon Sumners. • Tariq Ali. Activist Writer. • Tenessee Williams. Author. • Terence McKenna. Author. • Terry Gilliam. Actor, comedian;Monty Python. • The Who. Rock band. • Thelonius Monk. • Thomas Jefferson. • Timothy Leary. • Tom Lehrer. • Top Tories. Senior members of the shadow cabinet. • Tony Elliot. Publisher, 'Time Out. • Tracy Blevins. Artist. • Tuppy Gore. • UB40. Band. • Victor Hugo. • Vincent Van Gogh. Artist. • Walt Disney. Cartoonist. • Walter Benjamin. • Whitney Houstonn. Busted at Hawaii airport but ran away. • William Burroughs. Author, poet, artist. • Will Self. Author. Did smack on Blairs plane. • William Shakespeare. Playwright. • William Straw. UK Home Sec Jack Straw's son. Cautioned for supplying undercover journalists in pub 'shocker'. • Willie Nelson. • Winston Churchill. British Prime Minister, poet, artist & multi drug user. • Woody Harrelson. Actor. Features in a book on growing medical mar1juana . • Zoroaster. Persian prophet.
Being totally objective. The only side-effect of mar1juana is that it could alter memory formation for a short period of time. But it also have many positive effects including reduce pain sensitivity, protection from excitotoxic brain damage, and reduce depression. Those are straight out of a neurobehavioral science textbook. I'm not making it up.
You are right about one thing, and that is that the NBA cares about the reputation of it's product (ie. the players). They work hard to fight off the stereotypes you mentioned, and Josh Howard didn't help with his comments. But COME ON. If your kid lights a blunt because Josh Howard talked about it, then you have some parenting to work on. Josh didn't tell the kids at the schools anything different, nor should his charity be cheapened by an irrelevant, albeit irresponsible decision. The absolute worst thing about mar1juana (besides illegality) is that it induces apathy. I smoked daily for years, and I can honestly say the only health effects I incurred were apathy and complacency. It is really sad to see the same people I smoked with, still sitting around doing nothing and with no real plans to do anything. It's a waste, but it's not malicious. It doesn't RUIN your life. Abuse of Cocaine, Heroin, Oxycontin, Xanax, and MDMA (to name a few of the truly threatening 'recreational' drugs that I've seen people have problems with) will seriously alter your personality and brain chemistry, and run your life into the ground. If your kids end up smoking, it would not be the WORST thing that could happen to them. Nobody 'wants their kids to grow up doing drugs' like you suggested, but if all they do is get stoned then Dad would probably never know a thing. It is possible to smoke weed AND study hard, not join gangs, or get addicted to Methamphetamine.
I bet the mavs all smoked it in Game 7, 2005. Otherwise, how can they were all so high in that game?! We lost to pot!
I just found this information on yahoo.com. I'm not a science person, but if mar1juana is so good then why is the use of it a reason for transplant rejection? Maybe the surgeons know something about weed that we don't? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080426/ap_on_re_us/medical_marijuana_transplants To everyone who thinks I'm wrong: Do you let your kids smoke? It's harmless right? It aides in studying right? "Good job Bob on your test today. Here, blaze with dad." To keynote32: I remember David Stern said something like the players wore suites when they were drafted. So why did Iverson wear a suite when he was drafted? And the list you put, where did you get it or did you arrange the list? To shipwreck: Can you monitor your kids 24/7? Growing up, I hardly saw my mom because she worked after I went to school and came home after I went to bed. She worked weekeneds too. I could have gotten so high at such a young age behind her back. To Angkor Wat: Josh Howard didn't advertise himself smoking weed because he knew it's a bad thing. That's why he confessed, but not bragged. TV and internet are so influential these days. Celebrities should have higher standards than the common people. If a kid finds out that his favorite athlete smokes weed, then he'll think it's right for him to do so too. But since it's illegal, he'll try to sneak it and maybe get in trouble with the law.
1, Because David Stern told him too....... 2, Who cares? "If a kid finds out that his favorite athlete smokes weed, then he'll think it's right for him to do so too. " I strongly, strongly disagree..... If your kid is that impressionable and stupid, then it is the parents fault...
Yeah. I'm a programmer. I'm a little pissed off when I hear term "brilliant code" and I'm pretty sure that their code would also compile without them smokin' weed. Well, what I meant to say is that it also makes you clueless in longterm. Clueless and careless. ------------------ Don't take it on board Don't fall on your sword Just play another chord If you feel you're getting bored I feel numb I feel numb Too much is not enough I feel numb Don't change your brand Gimme what you got Don't listen to the band Don't gape Gimme what I don't get Don't ape Don't change your shape Gimme some more Have another grape Too much is not enough I feel numb I feel numb ------------------
Sorry, I'd be more worried about who your kids hang out with rather than what athletes he looks up to. Josh Howard won't be the one telling your kid to steal from the gas station, he won't be the making him snort lines and he definitely won't be the guy forcing the blunt to his lip. The people he hangs around with will have more of an impact on his life than any athlete. Your kid can look up to Collin Powell and Condeleza Rice (LOL) all he wants. But neither Colin or Condeleza will be there when your kid is in middle school or high school trying to "fit it" with the other kids. Honestly, I don't think your giving kids enough credit. They're not that stupid. Everything starts with good parenting. If he doesn't have that, then Josh Howard would be the least of your worries.
