what, you guys don't know THE PROHIBITIONIST yet when you see one?
this is just another of their vehicles.
time for pro sports to use whatever they like... it all comes out in the wash and the light. everyone knows that some of these drugs can be used successfully... or you will suffer the consequences of experimentation (re: Lyle Alzado, et al).
we sell sports like we sell sex. LEGALIZE ALL OF IT for safer more prosperous world. as long as we try to bust it and hide and deride it, kids will be ruined and corruption rampant, lives destroyed (by the Prohibition).
this is simple: regarding this MOST IMPORTANT issue you are either part of the problem of part of the solution. there is NO MIDDLE GROUND, NO COMPROMISING of PRINCIPLES here.
Prohibition, the Eighteenth Amendment, took effect on January 20,
1920. Reverend A. C. Bane declared the nation, "redeemed by
prohibition" ... "America will 'go over the top' in humanity's greatest battle... struggling with the same age-long foe, we will go forth with the spirit of the missionary and the crusader to help drive the demon of drink from all civilization." Reverend Sam Small in 1917, spoke these powerful words to the Washington, D. C. Anti‑saloon League's convention, "...you and I may proudly expect to see this America of ours, victorious and Christianized, become not only the savior but the model and the monitor of the reconstructed civilization of the world in the future."
The Reverend Josiah Strong, coeditor of the magazine "The Gospel of the Kingdom," wrote, "Personal Liberty is at last an uncrowned king, with no one to do him reverence. ...We are no longer frightened by that ancient bogey...." First Lady Nancy Reagan said, "Any user of illicit drugs is an accomplice to murder." Former U. S. government drug czar William Bennett said, "It [drug abuse] is a product of the Great Deceiver.... We need to bring these people in need the God who heals." Indeed, in need of an education.