Originally Posted by Yes4Prop215

yet other NFL players can rape, get DUI's, run dog fighting rings, and sex up underage girls and still play in the NFL!

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!! ... the more i think about this issue, the more my blood boils.

would be interesting to see if a legitimate medical professional would ever come out and publicly talk about some of the fantastic medical benefits of using cannabis and how it could apply to healing nfl players, and indeed other athletes as well.

He didnt get pulled over for loud music... he was profiled. Black man in a nice vehicle with big wheels and loud music (same profile for anyone really but not white adds at least a - 10 to his saving roll). Thats the thing the cops don't want to let go.... if there is no smell, and he is not obviously intoxicated.... wtf can the police do to this uppity person that doesn't know his place?
With a little bit of weed, he is now a drug dealer.

Prohibition = Jim Crowe (poor people too now)

[RetroGrow]

Chris Simms is white.
Same thing happened to him.

I think Sims was pulled over for erratic driving and looked red eyed and reportedly had trouble speaking.
A little different don't you think?

[bergerbuddy]

Originally Posted by HippyJohnny

I think Sims was pulled over for erratic driving and looked red eyed and reportedly had trouble speaking.
A little different don't you think?

If you BELIEVE all that shit.... maybe you don't have first hand experience with honest trust worthy LEO's... :-)

[RetroGrow]

I think the pigs will bust anyone they can, regardless of skin color, and in particular if that person has celebrity status. There was an implicit racism in the original prohibition, but they will bust anyone, especially if you have assets to steal.

[420Stylez]

with florida state law being 75% tougher than federal law, evreything is going to be trumped up to the highest charge, then when they plead you out you go for a lesser charge that is still a high felony..... hopefully he'll go play for the raiders and get a script GO OAKLAND!!!!!

[HydroJen]

Story doesn't mention Whether/how much cash was confiscated. Thats what gets gold stars these days. Cops could keep $$ only if it's booked as drug money.

[statusquo]

Reckless driving + DUI + football player + weed in his car that's not smell proof when he is a national icon = either an idiot or an ignoramus. Probably a little bit of both. That being said, he might be a great football player however I have absolutely no interest in the sport at the professional/entertainment level...I think it's ridiculous how much people care about professional sports: the time, money, resources and emotions thrown at professional sports never ceases to astonish me.

[RetroGrow]

Originally Posted by statusquo

Reckless driving + DUI + football player + weed in his car that's not smell proof when he is a national icon = either an idiot or an ignoramus. Probably a little bit of both. That being said, he might be a great football player however I have absolutely no interest in the sport at the professional/entertainment level...I think it's ridiculous how much people care about professional sports: the time, money, resources and emotions thrown at professional sports never ceases to astonish me.

Celebrity worship has reached epidemic proportions in our society. Basketball players treated like gods, and the public actually voting to subsidize billionaires in building stadiums for them with our tax dollars. Completely absurd, and a symptom of a greater ill.
However this is not the issue.
The issue is government over stepping their bounds, and insinuating themselves in every facet of our lives, taking away our freedoms for profit. No one should go to jail for a plant, no matter how "stupid" they may have been.