NBA Suspending Marijuana Testing for 2021/2022 Season (by NORML)

One of my main motivations for founding and creating WeedPress — help yourself and follow WeedPress on Facebook — as an alternative news resource was that I was an Iowa soccer referee. I was told that I was a candidate for the top ten slots in the state in fall 2013, and put on a fast track to move up the career ladder of professional soccer refereeing.

However, in 2014, I was told by leadership of the Iowa soccer community that marijuana activism would have to be sidelined if I was to do higher level games.

I responded by wearing a Rastafarian head covering during soccer games as a referee, and my career ended after Rod Dougherty filed an ethics complaint concerning an arrest I had for possession of marijuana. Rod Dougherty, a political hack who couldn’t referee skillfully, had his complaint dismissed by the ethics committee. I was arrested not at a soccer game, but on my own personal time, but Dougherty’s dismissed ethical complaint effectively terminated my motivation to pursue the political potential in the soccer community. Instead of soccer, I was freed up to focus on drugs and policy in politics instead.

And kids, drugs and policy making are way more fun to focus on! Thanks bunches Rod — one of the most incompetent referees when on the field in Iowa, hands down.

At one point during my extremely successful (“the best”) professional soccer career I took a season off from soccer refereeing. Donald Trump becoming President directly correlated with a massive increase in toxicity towards referees in Iowa from the public, and at soccer games, I couldn’t stand the visibly increased negativity, so, I took a break. When I came back off this break I was told by leadership in the Iowa soccer community that they were confused! Apparently to them I was a really good (read: “the best”) referee before my break and somehow an even better referee (“bestest”) when I came back.

This story, to me, is insightful and really matters.

I couldn’t tell the full story at the time. I was unable to tell the referee community that I had used psychedelics to treat mental issues and work on personal development. Taking psychedelics as I did on my year off were what made me into a better referee. I had taken a year off and spent the time doing psychedelics in educated and safe set and setting environments for myself. And the results were noteworthy to the point of being indescribable.

One day, I sincerely expect and hope to be able to mentor future up and coming professional athletes interested in applying psychedelics in a legal environment with safe access to professional trained integration therapists and doctors trained in updated clinical guidelines for the beneficial application of psychedelics to aid (gasp) professional athlete’s personal and physical developments. Meanwhile, while my career as an aspiring high level soccer referee is over my drug policy activism is most certainly not.

Behold today’s good news for professional athletes! NORML has announced that for the second season in a row professional athletes in the NBA will not be drug tested for marijuana. This is a sign of society’s spiritual delusions and insanity surrounding psychedelics and spiritual sacraments becoming unraveled. The drug war, a dark, temporary mistake, has been flooded with floodlights from social media connected cell phones, and the public has spoken. Drugs, as prophesied, have won the war.

I can personally attest to the perspectives presented here. Today’s article that NORML put out is really quite accurate! As a formerly professionally paid athlete, marijuana use for me was the opposite of performance enhancing. I never smoked marijuana before refereeing soccer games, because it negatively affected reaction timing.

I did once smoke marijuana when I did my first center as a JV center for Ames High school back in 2008, and the feedback I received after the game — that I made every call right but that calls were 10 seconds too late — made me vow to never referee while under the influence of medical marijuana. This decision I made for myself was affirmed for myself further while working as a volunteer for Gary Johnson’s presidential campaign in 2012. At some point, Gary said he quit using marijuana when he found it negatively affected his time trials while doing some form of competitive skiing. I took note of his experience, and verified I was right to be non-medicated while performing duties on the field as a referee.

If you’re getting the message about the good happenings and going-ons in the drug policy world we choose to highlight — follow WeedPress on Facebook. Trust me. You won’t regret liking and following what’s coming next.

In the meantime — tick, tock — please do pay attention to what’s happening in professional sports with drug testing and policy changes. Science, actual, accurate drug science, matters, and drug science says to leave professional athletes alone to choose for themselves what’s best for their bodies. “Their bodies, their choice” is my thought regarding how athletes manage their bodies.

These policy changes are all part of prophesy, and, babylon is falling. Come watch the collapse of this evil and injustice with us right here on the front lines at WeedPress. We’ve been here and will continue to say whatever we want here, and we are NOT leaving until this reprehensibly immoral drug war shit is over.