I really don’t care if people smoke marijuana. I just don’t. I think it should be legal. We waste hundreds of millions of dollars annually on it, arresting, prosecuting and locking people up. But it isn’t legal in most places and isn’t permissible by the NFL. Therefore, players should find a way to avoid it.
I’m not going to get on a soapbox because I believe people should be free to make choices about their own lives. This isn’t about players lacking character or morals. It’s about players lacking intelligence and not caring about their teammates. In other words, players getting suspended for smoking weed (or missing a mandatory drug test) is a really dumb, selfish act.