A tribute to football players caught smoking cannabis
Currently cannabis is a trend as it was many years ago before its total ban in many countries, but this has come to influence sports and is that if we like cannabis and we are professional athletes it will be very difficult to consume because of the constant medical and doping tests that this sport constantly demands, but there are those who have done it and have been surprised by the media that in the end end up discriminating against the player and cannabis, so I will talk about these great heroes who used cannabis in his career as a footballer.
From Chris Armstrong to Roberto Mancini have enjoyed a great joint of marijuana of good, similarly the tabloids report similar cases at present, but these often kept secret by many. It is difficult not to harbor a silent admiration for those who have cultivated a taste for a good touch of cannabis.
While steroids, stimulants, amphetamines, and cocaine are defined as drugs to improve physical performance and their consumption is considered a practice devoid of all ethics, there are few people who can ensure that the athletic effort is benefited by a drug whose Side effects include a clear inactivity, a state of absence, and an insatiable hunger.
The only scenario in which smoking marijuana can help sports performance is when it coincides with a seven-hour session playing FIFA, and still some people from WADA will argue that there is an advantage in the tactical aspect of the game and when pressing the buttons of control. However, there are those who say that while playing a real football game, you can experience improvements in your skills and even desepeñarte better for brief periods.
Although football is not plagued by athletes addicted to banned substances as is often the case in other sports, there is a splendid number of players who have been surprised by their habit of smoking marijuana. In the 90s, there was the highest number of cases of players who tested positive for marijuana in England.
In the 80's, it is said that 80 percent of the players' urine was pure beer, without a filter, and therefore it was almost impossible to detect traces of recreational drugs in the players.
There are players in the minor divisions of football who claim that smoking marijuana is the least scandalous - evidence suggests that lighting a joint during halftime is far from being something strange in games.
Some football players surprised
Chris Armstrong, Roberto Mancini, Dean Chandler, Lee Bowyer, Ian Wright, Bernard Lama, Wilder Mediana, Mbulelo Mabizela, Ioanee Euzebiusz Smolarek, Gino Coutinho, among others ...
Former West Ham goalkeeper Bernard Lama was suspended for two months for smoking grass while playing for PSG in 1997 - there are several footballers who have been caught for putting their hands on a cannabis joint. Among them is Colombian forward Wilder Mediana who tested positive for cannabis three times in 2011, Spur player Mbulelo Mabizela, and former Bolton Wanderers player Ioanee Euzebiusz Smolarek, who tested positive for cannabis in 2002 despite never claiming have smoked marijuana But none comes close to the heels of Gino Coutinho, a Dutch goalkeeper who was imprisoned in 2011 for being part of a marijuana farm with more than 4,200 bushes.