Sunday Focus: Pot

     The legalization of marijuana for medical or recreational purposes is complicating the way Americans deal with the drug.

     DEA Agents recently seized a shipment of hemp seeds headed for a Kentucky College's researchers, even though hemp---which is used to make rope and clothing---can never get anyone high. 
     The L.A. Times reports the DEA may be losing the war against pot.

     Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall was arrested for marijuana possession. 
     It was such a small amount that he was ticketed but not arrested.
     Grass is still very much illegal in Alabama. Should be be suspended for a game to two? kicked off the team?
     And Marshall isn't alone in college football:

NCAA statistics show a bump in the number of stoned athletes. In the NCAA's latest drug-use survey, conducted in 2009 and released in January, 22.6 percent of athletes admitted to using marijuana in the previous 12 months, a 1.4 percentage point increase over a similar 2005 study. Some 26.7 percent of football players surveyed fessed up, a higher percentage than in any other major sport. 

                                                    From an ESPN article from April, 2012.

     How can coaches effectively teach their players, High School or College, that marijuana is dangerous and illegal when all they see is people smoking legally (in some states), and even more so in the make-believe world of TV, where a show based on grass lasted several seasons?

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