Thursday, March 15, 2007

Sly Stallone, Holyfield, medical marijuana… I must say who the hell cares.

In the case of Stallone, he’s a rich old man. Who gives a rip if he is pumped up on ‘roids. Evidently the Australian Customs officials do, because he was popped in the airport the other day for carrying something like 48 vials of human growth hormone in his suitcase. Perhaps it was his vacation supply. What a habit. Of course if he was attempting to import it himself, I ‘gotta’ say, Sly, have you ever hear of FEDEX or some sort of high priced, discrete drug mule?

Then there is Evander -cruiser weigt to heavyweight-Holyfield who, as it turns out, is under investigation for being on the gear for some of those later heavyweight fights in his career. “Holyfield admits to taking a drug from the pharmacy, but says it was for a "hormonal problem." Holyfield claims Tyson was juicing as well. Again, I gotta say who cares. This is two men beating each other. If you have to pump up a little to get through having your head clanged for a couple hours, so be it.

Finally, there is medical marijuana. – San Francisco, “A federal appeals court upheld the U.S. government's authority Wednesday to prosecute medical marijuana patients in California, but left open the possibility that a gravely ill patient could defend against criminal charges by showing that marijuana was her only shield against excruciating pain or death.” Good job feds. REALLY bully to you. Stick it to the sick pothead who just wants to be pain free.

So here is the tally: We have one old man who the entire universe knows is on steroids busted for being on steroids. (Confidential to those police folks: good investigatory work, I had no idea Stallone what using. What a revelation.) We’ve got a heavy weight busted for juicing against a crazed, tattooed ear-biter. And finally, the courts upheld the authority of the government to prevent sick people form using THC. The funny thing is, all of these folks will continue to use, but it’s the sick and tired who are trying to deal with maladies like glaucoma, chemo side-effects and pain, who will be prosecuted for their use.

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