BREAKING NEWS: Josh Howard is an idiot.
I used to think that Josh Howard would be the perfect small forward for what we've got going on here. He can score, defend, shoot, and rebound. Furthermore, with Dallas in a bit of dire straights with their window closing, I was hopeful one of the possible trades this summer or next might involve him.
All that is gone now with his recent interview admitting that he smokes pot in the offseason. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3368139
Pot smoking aside, what a terrible move to make these comments before a playoff game in which his team is down 0-2. He put himself ahead of his team. Futhermore, he now risks future suspension and/or legal problems as the league will surely pay more attention to his offseason activities. Suffice it to say, thankfully Kevin Pritchard is not in the business of stocking our team with idiots anymore, and I will turn my attention elsewhere as I try to guess which players the Blazers will try to acquire in the next couple years.
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by Zaron5551 on Apr 26, 2008 12:21 PM PDT 0 recs
opps that link didn't work
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by Zaron5551 on
Apr 26, 2008 12:22 PM PDT
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pot should be legalized
so it woudnt be such a big deal if you smoke it… they do it cause they have a long stressfull season and it relaxes them.
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by CroRupt on Apr 26, 2008 12:31 PM PDT 1 recs
u dont have to smoke pot
there is different way to relax. There is natural remedies to take and u relax. Pot makes u want to eat alot and u become fat. plus pot makes u lazy too, thats why Miles missed alot of practices.
by RipCity on
Apr 26, 2008 12:44 PM PDT
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pot does not make you lazy
It was miles choice to be lazy. and it does not make you fat and yes you do get hungry and eat after but you dont gain weight if your a normal healthy person
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by CroRupt on
Apr 26, 2008 12:49 PM PDT
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yes it was miles choice
but lets say if some one drinks and drives whos choice it was if he got it to the acsidet? Pot only makes u melow, and that translates into the game.
by RipCity on
Apr 26, 2008 12:55 PM PDT
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Good Lord, not this conversation again.
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by T Darkstar on
Apr 26, 2008 12:46 PM PDT
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Seriously.
The pot debate seems to be a on off-season tradition here at Blazers Edge. This conversation will happen at least twice more before October then go away until next year.
by bocious on
Apr 27, 2008 1:17 AM PDT
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Saying pot makes you lazy and eat a lot
is like saying alcohol makes you beat wifes.
it’s all about the person using it.
and by looking at Josh Howard’s results, I’d say he knows how to handle himself.
"Mommy and Daddy are going to take a nap before the baseball game starts..."
by Devyn on Apr 26, 2008 12:50 PM PDT 0 recs
yes !!!
you took the words out of my mouth.
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by CroRupt on
Apr 26, 2008 12:54 PM PDT
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yes first beer makes ugly people have sex
then it makes them beat up each other. look mostly when people are in trouble and caught by police, it almost allways have to do with alcohol or drugs.
by RipCity on
Apr 26, 2008 12:58 PM PDT
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rofl
I don’t really care. And it’s true, most guys in the league probably do smoke pot. Or at least on the Mavericks. It’s not a big deal. Then again I don’t pretend to be the moral police.
However, I really have to question his business acumen when he openly says something like this. This could really kill a lot of lucrative financial opportunities for him.
I think Josh Howard is pretty overrated, but he played well on Thursday (or was it Friday) night.
KP: You know Mike Rice, Mike Barret you've both been very valuable to us this season. But I'd still trade you both for a couple of 2nd round draft picks.
by Dheepan on Apr 26, 2008 1:51 PM PDT 0 recs
Read Truehoop
It has a somewhat more balanced view of this one than bfan’s.
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-32-119/Josh-Howard-Lies-Less-Than-Other-Pot-Smokers.html
by begottenson on Apr 26, 2008 5:45 PM PDT 0 recs
You gives
if you can handle it then so be it
BLAZERNATION!!!!
by wiseblazer on Apr 26, 2008 8:03 PM PDT 0 recs
Live and let live
Smoking marijuana affects no one except the person doing the smoking. Smoking pot is a totally victimless “crime.” I would much rather have people puffing reefer than drinking alcoholic beverages. When was the last time you heard about marijuana causing someone to be violent or do stupid things like drive at 90 mph? Alcohol kills people every day—probably every minute. It kills the drinker and it kills scores of innocent people. Alcohol is not a victimless crime. (Of course it’s not a crime at all unless you’re underage like Oden. But that isn’t my point. Alcohol creates victims.) So if all you moralists want to denounce a recreational drug then I suggest you direct your vituperation at alcohol and leave pot alone. Pot is the drug of choice of peaceful, contemplative people. Alcohol is often the drug of choice of violent, insufferable egotists.
But in the end I don’t give a rat’s patoot what people do with their lives as long as there are no DIRECT victims. Alcohol creates a fair number of indirect victims, but it’s not like murder or rape or robbery, and in my view people should be allowed to consume it as long as there are regulations designed to protect the public. In other words, as long as the law is the way it is right now. Oden should be allowed to drink (even though he’s underage) so long as he doesn’t harm anybody by doing so.
As for marijuana, well, there’s not even a legitimate debate about it in my view. It should be legal and regulated and taxed, similar to alcohol. And if Josh Howard or Lamar Odom or Rasheed or Reefer LaFrentz want to smoke a dooby in the off season, that is their business and they should be left alone. Let he/she who is without sin cast the first stone. Live and let live. Get the government off people’s backs. If you have a moralistic streak and want to micromanage other people’s lives, then join a religious cult or something where you can find like-minded people and volunteer as one of their brownshirts or thought police. This is America and it’s high time we took back our freedom.
Nature bats last.
by fisheyes on Apr 26, 2008 11:48 PM PDT 0 recs
A couple of things that I found troubling about your post
To quote you ,”Pot is the drug of choice of peaceful, contemplative people. Alcohol is often the drug of choice of violent, insufferable egotists.”
Let me ask you this. Can you casually smoke marijuana without it altering or impairing your mental state? Most people who smoke pot would be pretty upset if it did not alter their state. They may ask for their money back.
You can certainly drink a glass of wine or small amounts of alcohol without it altering your state. You may just enjoy the flavor or be drinking the wine for it’s health benefits.
I don’t think you can blanket a certain type of personality and associate it with something as far reaching as marijuana and alcohol either. You may know and associate with some people who smoke weed who in fact may be peaceful and contemplative. I don’t argue that at all. That is your experience. I can also tell you from experience that MANY pot smoker’s are not peceful nor contemplative.
I have seen alcohol overtake people as I have seen people who have become slaves to marijuana. I think it is fair to say that either substance put into the wrong hands can be abused and harmful.
As far a pot not making you do anything stupid like drive 90 miles an hour? 5 words.
Weed. Yellow Hummer. Sheed. Damon.
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by oderiferous emanations 74 on
Apr 27, 2008 2:45 AM PDT
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Please clarify
Define “for real.”
Nature bats last.
by fisheyes on
Apr 27, 2008 9:43 AM PDT
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I'll clarify....
I smoke weed and on the rare occassion I do drive under it’s influence I can barely go the speed limit. Alcohol is PROVEN to be much worse for your body than dope. It has been DOCUMENTED that it has cost so many more lives in traffic accidents. McDonald’s Food is PROVEN to be much worse for you too for chrissakes. And on another note; one acre of hemp can make as much paper as 5 acres of old-growth timber. Further proof that it ain’t the weed that makes people ignorant.
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by bforsythe on
Apr 27, 2008 3:18 PM PDT
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Some of my favorite and longest wearing clothes are made from hemp fiber.
Also, there is new evidence that THC helps prevent lung tumors. Here is a link.
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by annthefan on
Apr 27, 2008 3:36 PM PDT
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Well, that didn't work. Here's the URL anyway.
http://www.forbes.com/health/feeds/hscout/2007/04/17/hscout603764.html
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by annthefan on
Apr 27, 2008 3:40 PM PDT
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I forgot.
Using capital letters makes an argument more persuasive.
Trade Freeland!
by rockingharder on
Apr 27, 2008 4:45 PM PDT
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LOUD NOISES!
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by bforsythe on
Apr 29, 2008 6:23 PM PDT
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I do not want to think about high people driving
Better than alcohol, probably so, but the high people I’ve been around (probably fewer than the average Portlander who attended Reed for a semester)? The reflexes were not so good, and I would not want them driving ANYWHERE near me. (caps added for imitative effect).
by Section323 on
Apr 27, 2008 8:29 PM PDT
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outlaw smokes
you can tell by the way he talks
uwe blab
by midget on Apr 27, 2008 1:53 AM PDT 0 recs
Umm. I think that's a Mississippi accent you're hearing.
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by annthefan on
Apr 27, 2008 1:58 AM PDT
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Outlaw is actually from Providence, RI
His whole “I’m from Starksville, Mississippi” schtick is just full of thinly veiled drug references. Also, his real name is Sheldon Weintraub—“Travis Outlaw” is his street name from back when he sold death in a vial, CRACK ROCK COCAINE.
He enjoys faking a southern accent because he’s a New England northerner at heart, always ready to crack wise at the expense of down homey poor country folk from the uneducated Deep South. Once you piece together the whole story, you can really see that Sheldon “Troutlaw” Weintraub is an arrogant jerk!
Mortimer?
by Mortimer on
Apr 27, 2008 2:32 AM PDT
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Wow. It must be true because Morty his own self has reported it. I am so naive. Perhaps Travis can be rehabililitated.
Haha! I just ran Weintraub through Babel Fish. It translates as crying robbery. Funny.
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by annthefan on
Apr 27, 2008 3:14 AM PDT
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My Moms
Used to take something called “crank” to clean house. She always did a real good job on the crank. When I aged a bit, she paid me $20 to clean the house, because when it comes to house cleaning, I’m anal as a chicken cracker. It makes me think that she must have paid more than $20 for the crank. Now that I think about it, I should have asked for more money.
I don’t know the point of my post. Just that drugs are bad, and maybe the people who take them there drugs, aren’t that bad.
Maneki Neko
by tominhawaii on Apr 27, 2008 3:30 PM PDT 0 recs
I saw a good documentary on comcast On-Demand.
If you are not in favor of pot, you should watch it. Its all about government propaganda relating to the reefer. It appears our government hated this substance from day 1(likely due its assosiation with Mexico and the immigrants that used it), and now they might be in a little too deep to admit they jumped to conclusions and outlawed a reasonably harmless substance. Give it a chance, its very informative and Woody Harrelson narrates it…
RUDY > MJ
by myemic23 on Apr 27, 2008 6:49 PM PDT 0 recs
Apparently I deleted the sentence where I said the title of the documentary...
The title of it is “Grass”, and it is worth a watch….
RUDY > MJ
by myemic23 on
Apr 27, 2008 7:00 PM PDT
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Scouting in Europe
Diputado A: Su Señoría da una en clavo y cien en herradura.
Diputado B: porque su Señoría no se está quieto.
by amlmart1 on Apr 27, 2008 8:39 PM PDT 0 recs
Hmm. Legal in Spain. Is usage high when it doesn't have the panache of being illegal?
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by annthefan on
Apr 27, 2008 8:56 PM PDT
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There isn´t a high use, IMO.
The usage is mostly private or with friends by night. I don´t smoke and I don´t go out by night since time ago, so perhaps something is changed.
I haven´t seen people with serious problems with it. I have seen lifes completly destroyed by heroin, every person using heroin will suffer a lot and do suffer his family. They become slaves of the drug because the drug stole their lifes and then there is only more drug to go on. Soft drugs have an impact depending the people who use it, like happens with alcohol, IMHO, and I agree that alcohol can be more dangerous. There is a talk about the danger to be involved in the way to hard drugs consumption, but what I know it is more about the friends (with friends like those who needs enemies?) that introduce other persons to consumption.
Diputado A: Su Señoría da una en clavo y cien en herradura.
Diputado B: porque su Señoría no se está quieto.
by amlmart1 on Apr 27, 2008 9:45 PM PDT 0 recs
Pot use directly corretlated to flopping
One can always tell the smokers in the NBA…because they keep falling down whenever another player comes near. It’s the manifestation of laziness and passivity creeping into the game.
by NWfan on Apr 28, 2008 10:25 AM PDT 0 recs
Pot use
among many other bad effects, leads to internet arguments.
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by jscot on Apr 28, 2008 10:39 PM PDT 0 recs









