Andrew Sullivan on the Drug War and Football:
More pharmaceutical double-standards with respect to pain-relief. It seems any addictive pain-killer is fine with the NFL. Oxycontin? Have a Limbaugh-sized dose. But marijuana? You’ll be suspended.
How often does our irrational prohibition of marijuana end up forcing people to take drugs that are more harmful to them?

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