Slightly OT - Footballers and Drugs?

You quite often hear footballers getting banned for using drugs, but 99% of the time it's usually performance enhancing things that get sportsman banned, and rightly so. Any sportsman found trying to give themselves an unfair boost should be banned, and disgraced as a cheater.

But would a footballer get banned for smoking weed?

It is illegal, but I don't see why a footballer should be banned from playing football because he gets high from something like Marijuana. It's not performance enhancing. If anything it can hurt your performance because it can effect your breathing.

I can't see the player's manager being too happy about it, but should a player be banned for taking drugs if they don't enhance his performance?

Is it only performance enhancing drugs that get you banned? Or is it any drug?

 

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What about players from the Netherlands in that case?

Edit: many footballers have been banned for cocaine abuse!

 

Look I took a gram of coke a two red rockstars on Friday and I didn't lose my job. I'm never doing it ever again though but thought I'd make my point.

 

Are your employees aware of this though?

 

As far as I'm aware football clubs have either legal obligation regarding or insist on putting measures relating to substance abuse into contracts, as do the vast majority of employers in every sector. I'm sure if you check your contract you signed with your current employers, there will be something mentioned about contract termination etc if you fail a drugs test.

If I'm correct, then it's not a matter specifically related to football.

 

A gram? Pfft.... I shoot coke in 330ml doses

 

Personally if footballers want to indulge in recreational drugs, I don't think that should result in a ban. Clearly weed is not going to increase stamina, nor will LSD improve someone's concentration, so if professional athletes want to indulge and risk their careers, more fool them. A notable exception can be made for speed, although this makes you much more injury prone in the long run.

I will declare my position, I'm of the opinion that most if not all recreational drugs should be legalised anyway, and then heavily taxed and regulated to deal with the problems caused by abuse and minimise other risks. We can then ensure that 'bad batches' dont happen, such a recent spate of E poisonings around Manchester. The war on drugs doesn't really work, and criminalises addicts. As alcohol is considered more harmful than many of the recreational drugs, I have never understood a good reason why it is still allowed, apart from moral panic and vested booze interests.

Another point- I dont know if there are any drugs specifically banned in football which are otherwise legal (I know Beta blockers are banned in some sports such as golf and snooker as they stop shaking), if so, surely there must be specific lists for athletes to avoid.

 

Get your ****ing coat and **** off.

 

Whilst I have no objection to the legalisation of certain drugs, I would be pissed off if any employee/teammate/player of my team took something that was detrimental to his performance on the pitch - I want them performing at the best of their abilities, never mind what is legally allowed.

 

Fine. WHORE!

 

I'm going to contact the authorities and let them know that some Newcastle United supporters are using drugs and have you all banned for risking getting us a bad name.

Tash will be top of the list.

 

Tash wishes he was top of the list... Supply issues I believe....

 

ffs

 

You've posted on here before that you want to try them but don't know where to source them

 

KP and Hammond are two sauces you could try Tash.

 

Lads what's the beef here , shola and Williamson are often smoking wacky backy and look at their performances on the pitch

 

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I think the word 'drug' creates a veil over the word use. For example they can see the distinction between a glass of wine with your dinner, or a few beers before and after the football or 6 litres of white star in the middle of the day, yet the lines between a pill on a saturday night, a few spliffs to chill out with or a rock of crack become somehow blurry because they fall under the universal umbrella term 'drug'.

I am a drug user, I am an alcohol user. I use alcohol far more frequently and to a much more damaging degree - the irony is, one creates an image of a scruffy, tax dodging leech with poor health and no prospects, the other (more damaging one) makes me seem like a regular, down to earth lad.

 

Hammonds used to be very nice. SAw it in Morrisons the other day too... blast from the past.

 

Problem being is that coke and the like you can buy on the street isn't pure. Meaning it is quite possible that it may contain a substance banned by the governing body of football (FA, UEFA, FIFA etc.)