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Originally posted by Boxingfanatic75 View Post
It becomes my business because boxing is a business not a frat house. If it’s legal betting on Boxing then betting on boxing should therefore be banned OR full disclosure of all drug tests so people who do place sports bets have all the information they need to make sound decisions. The last thing I want is to bet on a blazer who hacks and wheezes come round two.Slowhand likes this.
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About damn time... drug rules in sports and in fact drug legislation in general has always suffered from from a massive lack of clarity, and weed was about the most egregious with no other apparent reason for it's banning in sports except that it was already illegal in civilian life and no obvious reason for it to be illegal at all apart from some spurious moralistic platitudes...
Coupla interesting articles here about the why and when some of the major drugs were made illegal in the US and UK:
The demonisation of cannabis in the United States was an extension of the demonisation of the new Mexican immigrants. To ensure that surveillance and control systems were in place to maintain leverage over the new Mexican citizens. In El Paso, opium had been made illegal to try and control Chinese immigrants. Cannabis was then made illegal to enable the authorities to have an excuse to search, detain and deport Mexican immigrants.It wasn’t until 1928 that cannabis became a prohibited substance in the UK, when mounting racist fears regarding the drugs’ social influence among people of colour led politicals to criminalise it across occupied territories, and then eventually in Britain itself. Politicians in the late 19th century had become obsessed with what they claimed as madness caused by cannabis in the colonies, or as one MP put it, that the “lunatic asylums of India are filled with ganja smokers”. An official inquiry in 1894 finally proved no link between cannabis and mental health or anti-social behaviour in India, but the British government still tried to ban it four times before the turn of the century.
Similar efforts were made elsewhere, with similarly colonialist overtones: the drug was banned in Mauritius in 1840 due to its popularity “among the labouring class,” and in Jamaica in 1913 due to its "demoralising and deplorable" effect on "the natives”. It was a pretty blatant display of social control that soon leaked over into Britain itself, and the moral panic around cannabis landed it an international ban in 1928 by the League of Nations
https://www.cannacares.co.uk/blogs/b...nnabis-illegal
https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-cu...e-uk-law-drugs
https://archive.attn.com/stories/182...-happening-now
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Originally posted by Marvlus Marv View PostSensible. We're not talking PEDs but POT. If your opponent is ****** enough to blaze before the fight, then you have an advantage not a handicap.
Nobody is a advocating anything, its just not a PED and it's legal in Nevada. Makes sense to me too.
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Originally posted by Marvlus Marv View PostSensible. We're not talking PEDs but POT. If your opponent is ****** enough to blaze before the fight, then you have an advantage not a handicap.
Nobody is a advocating anything, its just not a PED and it's legal in Nevada. Makes sense to me too.
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Originally posted by Oldskoolg View PostSo it’s true, the nutters really do run the nut house. So basically we now give boxers, who often come from broken homes mired with substance misuse, carte blanche to mingle with drug pushers. Bad move boxing, very bad move. But I suppose we will further see who is serious about their careers and what they out in their bodies and who will effectively self medicate….Last edited by I have no ears; 07-07-2021, 08:30 PM.Slowhand likes this.
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Originally posted by Citizen Koba View PostAbout damn time... drug rules in sports and in fact drug legislation in general has always suffered from from a massive lack of clarity, and weed was about the most egregious with no other apparent reason for it's banning in sports except that it was already illegal in civilian life and no obvious reason for it to be illegal at all apart from some spurious moralistic platitudes...
Coupla interesting articles here about the why and when some of the major drugs were made illegal in the US and UK:
https://www.cannacares.co.uk/blogs/b...nnabis-illegal
https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-cu...e-uk-law-drugs
https://archive.attn.com/stories/182...-happening-now
After more than a decade of persecuting alcohol, (a futile effort that only managed to create the american Mafia), suddenly tens of thousands of drug-enforcement agents and bureauc**** had nothing to persecute anymore, and were facing unemployment
Some govt **** called Harry Anslinger, the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (the original DEA) came up with the idea of demonizing weed with lies and phony bull**** studies
synthetic drugs didn't exist back then, and ******* and heroine were still very unpopular among the population. They didn't justify the existence of such a big, expensive agency as the FBN. So they had to attack the marijuana users, the crackdown and systematic abuse on certain ethnicities was a plus
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harry-a...marijuana-ban/
Then the U.S used its influence, or outright mugged the rest of countries into banning cannabis too, and that's the reason weed, a plant way healthier than tobacco and alcohol, a drug that's never killed anyone, was unfairly banned
But govts don't have full control of information anymore, the masses have seen through all this bull****, and that's why legalization is a thing now
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