Burly Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is in the headlines lately for all the wrong reasons. The two-time Super Bowl champion is mired in his second sexual-assault allegation episode in the last two years -- police demanding his DNA... never a good thing.
Opinions abound on accusations that Roethlisberger had inappropriate contact with a 20-year-old Georgia college student in a bar bathroom -- some completely unexpected. Mason Tvert, of the Colorado-based marijuana advocacy group S.A.F.E.R., chimes in with the most novel assessment yet.
Tvert said Roethlisberger could have avoided the whole situation if he'd have been smoking weed the night of the alleged assault instead of drinking alleged copious amounts of alcohol. "The NFL runs on alcohol, yet it runs from marijuana -- a far safer substance," Tvert said in a statement. "It's time for NFL officials to pull their heads out of the sand and accept the fact that many outstanding athletes -- and millions of Americans -- enjoy using marijuana, just as millions of NFL fans enjoy drinking beer produced by major NFL sponsors like Coors Light and Budweiser. Tvert says NFL policies punishing marijuana use and punishing prospective draft picks who have been known to smoke pot in college (along with countless other American college students) drives NFL athletes to drink, and therefor increases the likelihood that they'll be involved in accidents, fights, and on occasion sexual assault allegations.
NewsHawk: Ganjarden: 420 MAGAZINE ® - Medical Marijuana Publication & Social Networking
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Opinions abound on accusations that Roethlisberger had inappropriate contact with a 20-year-old Georgia college student in a bar bathroom -- some completely unexpected. Mason Tvert, of the Colorado-based marijuana advocacy group S.A.F.E.R., chimes in with the most novel assessment yet.
Tvert said Roethlisberger could have avoided the whole situation if he'd have been smoking weed the night of the alleged assault instead of drinking alleged copious amounts of alcohol. "The NFL runs on alcohol, yet it runs from marijuana -- a far safer substance," Tvert said in a statement. "It's time for NFL officials to pull their heads out of the sand and accept the fact that many outstanding athletes -- and millions of Americans -- enjoy using marijuana, just as millions of NFL fans enjoy drinking beer produced by major NFL sponsors like Coors Light and Budweiser. Tvert says NFL policies punishing marijuana use and punishing prospective draft picks who have been known to smoke pot in college (along with countless other American college students) drives NFL athletes to drink, and therefor increases the likelihood that they'll be involved in accidents, fights, and on occasion sexual assault allegations.
NewsHawk: Ganjarden: 420 MAGAZINE ® - Medical Marijuana Publication & Social Networking
Source: dscriber
Author: A.J. Vicens
Contact: dscriber
Copyright: 2010 dscriber
Website: Would Ben Roethlisberger be better off if he was smoking marijuana?
