Fighters Saying Stupid Stuff
Got this from Bloody Elbow.
What can you do, man? Rosa Parks wasn’t supposed to ride in the front of the bus. She was supposed to be in the back of that bus. Nick is the Rosa Parks of MMA.
Cesar Gracie about the CSAC ruling on marijuana
Really? Really? … Really?
First of all, your not going to get very far comparing a pot head to a civil rights pioneer. Secondly, pot is illegal because its a substance that damages the body. Maybe not as much as tobacco or alcohol, but one fight at a time. Being black and riding in the front of a bus was illegal because powerful white people were scared of black people back in the day. So there is a subtle difference between a little wake & bake to some Peter Tosh jams and civil disobedience of institutionalized racism.
Now with that social commentary out of the way. I do disagree with the recent California State Athletic Commission’s recent ruling that they will be testing for marijuana. Its not that I’m a fan of Mary J, its that I don’t believe that the sticky icky is a performance enhancer. I think the CSAC is overreaching on this one. If they want to dime out guys like Nick Diaz for blazin’ j’s to the police. That would be a dick move, but okay. But to treat trees as a PED is sort of silly to me.
For the record, Diaz has a pass, and uses “medical marijuana” to treat his ADD. Which is just as absurd.
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