Re: Webber's agent spins

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

That's fine, but the ban on pot has nothing to do with affecting 
performance.  A player could smoke on off days or after games and still 
get in trouble, so don't use that as justification for the ban.  As far 
as alcohol, I really doubt that if you showed up drunk at work that you 
would keep your job for very long.  Don't you understand that there is a 
difference between saying that an employee can not do something while on 
the clock and that they can not do it at all.  A lot of people work in 
places where you can't smoke cigarettes, and they are completely legal.  

This is not about whether players should be allowed to smoke pot.  They 
are not.  There are laws against it and they can be arrested for it, 
just like everyone else.  This is about whether there is a need to 
monitor people to see if they are breaking a law when there is no 
evidence to suggest that they have done so (random testing).  

Jim

>From: Shawn Roth <ufpdev!shawnr@uunet.uu.net>
>Subject: Re: Webber's agent spins
>To: celtics@igtc.COM
>Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:44:28 -0500 (EDT)
>
>Once again,  Drugs are illegal.  End of story!  The KKK is not illegal 
and
>doesn't affect a players performance, unless of course all the non WASP 
players
>on the team kick his ass and he can't play!  The question isn't 
"performance
>enhancing" drugs, it should be "performance altering" drugs. 
>
>The answer to your alcohol question.  When it is illegal, then yes test 
for it,
>but until then you can't.  I am not tested for alcohol becuase it isn't
>illegal or banned by my place of employment.  If it was then test me.  
I don't
>drink so I don't care.  
>
>In the end is comes down to this.  Black is Black, White is White, and 
Illegal
>is Illegal.  If NBA players want to smoke dope, the start the DSBA, 
Dope
>Smokers Basketball Association. OUT!!!!!
>
>Shawn
>


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