Bryan Cox Jr. is in trouble

[SBiii]

5 hours ago, Davidson Deac II said:

Regarding NC legal statutes, the cost of the ticket is slightly more.  But his insurance cost will go up significantly.  I read somewhere that the cost of a ticket for speeding in excess of 15mph is around 1600 over 3 years.  Pocket change for most NFL players of course, but for the rest of us, a significant chunk of change. 

My point is the NFL doesn't suspend players for speeding 90 in a 65 but if he gets a 1 game suspension for weed that's gonna cost him a game check which in his case amounts to about $38,000.

[4Corners]

43 minutes ago, Asurfaholic said:

I’ve never seen any evidence stating that weed relieves pain. I’d be interested to see all these studies you mention.

Uh, thanks Dr.Pepper but I will take the medical opinion of professionals and not yours. Or would you prefer big pharma keeps pumping real, deadly narcotics into Americans instead of treating pain management organically? 

[MasterAwesome]

35 minutes ago, TheRed said:

Are you under the impression that dragging the carcass of a previous disagreement between us into a topic about a completely unrelated matter somehow puts you above the fray?

I'm kind enough to respond to you out of sympathy.

Anyways. Clearly there are people that have some kind of moral objection considering it has been mentioned multiple times in this thread that weed is.....

What previous disagreement did I drag in here LOL you’re the one who said “why you always gotta side with people I disagree with”. You projecting?

But more importantly...did you really just conflate morality with legality?  I’ll give you a hint: one is subjective, one is not. That’s pretty messed up that you thought same-sex marriage was immoral up until just a few years ago.

If I told my female friend in Saudi Arabia a few years ago not to risk driving a car because I didn’t want her to get beheaded, am I making a moral claim regarding what I think about female drivers? 

Our laws don’t stem from our personal moral values, FYI.

[SmokinwithWilly]

 

40 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

Uh, thanks Dr.Pepper but I will take the medical opinion of professionals and not yours. Or would you prefer big pharma keeps pumping real, deadly narcotics into Americans instead of treating pain management organically? 

If you read the side effects of some of the drugs big pharma keeps pumping out and compare it to weed, weed is safer by far. I can't remember the last stoner that told me that every time he rolled a blunt he experienced anal leakage. 

[Asurfaholic]

41 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

Uh, thanks Dr.Pepper but I will take the medical opinion of professionals and not yours. Or would you prefer big pharma keeps pumping real, deadly narcotics into Americans instead of treating pain management organically? 

No. I have never seen a report saying the same but if there are claims that marijuana relieves muscle pains such and impact related injuries such as what a football player my have, then so be it. 

Im entirely in support of cutting the big pharma out of the picture as much as possible. 

My post was reflective of my own experience- I haven’t ever experienced any sort of reduction of inflammation and muscle pain from mj use. Perhaps there are uses for other types of pain? 

[wud35]

1 hour ago, Asurfaholic said:

I’ve never seen any evidence stating that weed relieves pain. I’d be interested to see all these studies you mention.

Live a day in my life and you will have all the evidence you need.

[Shocker]

18 hours ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Driving while on weed makes you go half the speed limit. He was just in a hurry to get out of Spartanburg.

LOL...so true

[Davidson Deac II]

1 hour ago, SBiii said:

My point is the NFL doesn't suspend players for speeding 90 in a 65 but if he gets a 1 game suspension for weed that's gonna cost him a game check which in his case amounts to about $38,000.

Someone earlier in this thread stated that the NFL had never suspended anyone for getting busted for posession of MJ.   Only for getting popped on the piss test.    Not sure if that is true, but if it is, then I suppose he has nothing to worry about.  

 

Edited to add, I looked it up and its not true.  Demetrius Harris was suspended for a game after he plead guilty.  So Cox could certainly be suspended.  But fwiw, I was only referring to the legal penalties, ie that speeding carries a larger penalty than Pot does.  

[L-TownCat]

3 hours ago, mc52beast said:

Tell that to a cop when he pulls you for speeding: 

I was speeding because everyone else was

It’s not a defense.  It’s just reality. 

[SBiii]

1 minute ago, Davidson Deac II said:

Someone earlier in this thread stated that the NFL had never suspended anyone for getting busted for posession of MJ.   Only for getting popped on the piss test.    Not sure if that is true, but if it is, then I suppose he has nothing to worry about.  

That was me!  It is possible I was wrong.  A receiver named Carlos Henderson was given a 1-game going into last year, and while neither he nor the league confirmed it the press stories indicated it was likely related to a possession arrest he had earlier in the year.  

Based on what I've read possession is a "at the discretion of the Commissioner" type of a situation.   Like Cox, Henderson was a fringe player and from what I can tell ultimately he has never played another game in the league.

[morgan55]

3 hours ago, Peon Awesome said:

Not a huge fan of the argument that you chose to play football (or whatever field) so you should happily accept all the consequences. How many jobs do you think Cox qualifies for that even remotely approach the benefits of professional football? He's just going to step away due to the pain of playing football and jump into his back up job of... best buy associate? The fact that he might want to do something to mitigate both the short and long-term consequences of the job shouldn't be disregarded. It's like the argument that if you don't like parts of this country then leave. Why the hell does everything have to be take it or leave it? I'm not saying he should be smoking marijuana but I am sympathetic to the possibility that he could have taken it because he's desperate to find a means to cope with the demands of the job. 

Hahaha cry me a river... dude is 25 years old.... he’s not coping with the demands of playing football... he’s a kid and he likes to get high.... he made a fug up quit trying to water it down.... 

[CatTower]

4 hours ago, Asurfaholic said:

I’ve never seen any evidence stating that weed relieves pain. I’d be interested to see all these studies you mention.

https://www.inverse.com/article/58027-cannflavins-a-and-b-in-cannabis-anti-inflammatory

 

"In the paper published in the journal’s August issue, researchers at the University of Guelph showed how the Cannabis sativa L plant produces two molecules, cannflavin A and cannflavin B, that were shown in 1985 to be approximately 30 times more effective than aspirin by weight at reducing inflammation in cell models."

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/if-you-smoke-pot-your-anesthesiologist-needs-know-n1038191

“We’ve been hearing reports about patients using cannabis, instead of opioids, to treat their postoperative pain,” said Dr. Mark Steven Wallace, chair of the pain medicine division in the anesthesiology department at the University of California-San Diego, in a state that also has legalized marijuana. “I have a lot of patients who say they prefer it.”

“We know very little about marijuana because we’ve not been allowed to study it in the way we study any other drug,” Hawkins said. “We’re all wishing we had a little more data to rely on.”

 

[Harbingers]

@CatTower

By weight means literally nothing though. As much as I hate to say it.

[CatTower]

4 minutes ago, Harbingers said:

@CatTower

By weight means literally nothing though. As much as I hate to say it.

It produces molecules that prove anti infammatory properties.  That contradicts the poster's point that there is no evidence.  There would be a lot more factual evidence if the government didn't take such a harsh approach to it, where scientists in the United States can't even study it.