re: Those of you who are calling for JHC's head....

Good analogy and well stated. Agree completely. I just wish we had enough instilled discipline to prevent these kinds of incidents. However, individuals have the freedom to make their own choices. JHC obviously knows the rules and has chosen to violate them. Hopefully this second round of suspension will be the wake up call he needs to turn things around in his life at UGA. The guy obviously has the physical anatomy to become a starter in the NFL; he just needs to get focused on the goal and make his mark in college needed to become a valuable draft pick.

Agreed. There is a point or two that I would stray from...but those would be for another thread.

He has one more chance, apparently from our (UGAs) policies. I suspect if he got caught twice in one year, he will probably get caught again. Hopefully not, and he can get his act together. I think we all, as Georgia fans, hope he can get turned around and be a productive presence on the team, instead of a bad influence.

I had forgot about that. Hard headed dumbass he is.

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No. Marijuana use can lead to lung cancer and impairment. these are facts.

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Who has died of cancer becuase of smoking marijauna. Link please.

My bad...Emphesyma. MUCH better!

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It MIGHT cause lung cancer:

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Satisfied?

Yes. More testing is needed.

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It would be enough to keep me away from weed, even if I was inclined to try it...which I am not.

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Well, like I said, Im no pothead, but tried it a time or 2 in my day and can say without a doubt it was worth a try. Makes the mind think beyond normal everyday comprehension. Every thought broken down into its simplest form. Never tried this, but many people in college will study high becuase they say it helps, but only if you take the test high as well. Not sure about that one though.

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Interesting adawgj...tell me more about how thc (specificaly, (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol) , enhances neurosynapses,,maybe it increases myelin sheaths or enhances the axons to send improved signals, let us not forget that THC is an exogenous agonist of G - protein CB1 receptors (canibinoid receptors) which produce the high but happen to also have a say in memory, concentration, timing, coordination, etc..

In fact this has been proven through research and experimentation, time and time again, this is why the up regulating of CB1 receptors via acquired responses such as disease, or drug use, can be overcame through the use of Marijuana...in other words,,the excitability due to down regulation of the cell can be "decreased" through the introduction of ThC into the presynaptic nerve terminal, where it occupies the CB1 G linked receptors to create a suppressed response, so you get reduced seizures..hence. why we have medicinal marijuana...This drug gets you high, it's awesome, no doubt,,it doesn't improve your concentration,your response time, your IQ, or your looks...but it makes you feel like it does...it's all relative,,,to everyone else your in slow motion...

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True story. When my buddies and I used to get high in college we inevitably made all these miraculous conclusions only to realize later when we were straight that our logic was either retarded or had already been discovered hundreds of years ago. And it was not uncommon for me to be driving high in my own home town, come to a traffic light and have no idea where I was or which way to go. But yea, no problem with the whole team smokin' pot. Let's just let them all share a monster stogie right before each game.

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One of the best arguments for legalizing pot is that the intoxicating effect is not much more intense than alcohol...but the high is less prone to to the types of aggressive behavior that alcohol produces.

When's the last time you saw somebody really high get into a fight or drive too fast?

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Oh I absolutely agree with that. Pot brownies are a heck of lot less harmful than drinking too much alcohol. I would often get paranoid when high and yea that and the confusion would cause me to drive super slowly.

A scholarship, even a full ride is not the equivalent for paying a student. When you play football at a big time program, then you are the only department making a profit for the university(most cases), in the sum of millions of dollars. The coach makes millions of dollars a year, the assistant coaches makes hundreds of thousands a year, but the actually person playing the game and bringing in the revenue, the football player, they get dont get paid! Yet they get to attend this university for free and get a "full ride" (whatever that means), however many other students can get this same opportunity through academic scholarships, yet they do not bring in millions of dollars. How is this fair to the student who is bringing is most of the revenue to the university? These football players have even less free time than other students b/c of their dedication to the football program. Look at A Murray, that DGD lived in teh film room. How can a student take full classes and then allocate the correct amount of study time for them, then throw in football practice, then the extra time to put in to it to make the team better, and your self. How can this person have a real paying job outside of this to have extra cash? They can't! But the guy who is on an academic scholarship is not putting in this many hours, so they are able to work and getting paid. Then you throw in our rules are way stricter than any other school in the SEC, so not only are you working harder than almost all the studnents, you can't even relieve some stress by partying (drinking and smoking, and girls) without possibly fricking up your future.

We hold these players to way way higher standards than we would do ourselves. For all we know JHC coulda only smoked pot 2 times and most of yall are calling for him to get kicked off. Any other SEC this would not be a problem. If we kick him off, it will end up like Mett or Marshall, everyone will be thinking what if.

Also, yeah I understand this is our drug policy, but damn does that mean we shouldnt question it, especially when the other teams winning national championships dont give a frick? God damn!

**edit: Also retail price of going to UGA can be expensive, but do you think all the football players would be paying full price if they got admitted to uga and werent playing football? No, they would be getting some type of assistance or financial aid, so their cost of attendance would be significantly lower than the retail uga sticker tag, so considering that, their "full ride" isn't as expensive or extravagant as some of you assclowns make it sound.