It was a dumb email...... Texas vs Colorado law

[Rams]

Coach fired after rejecting baseball recruit due to marijuana laws: 'It was a dumb email'

Former Texas Wesleyan baseball coach Mike Jeffcoat didn’t last long after rejecting a recruit for questionable reasons. Jeffcoat was let go by the school a day after an email in which Jeffcoat rejected a recruit in Colorado over the state’s marijuana laws went viral.

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/03/05/coach-fired-after-rejecting-baseball-recruit-due-to-marijuana-laws-it-was-a-dumb-email/23377618/

What was dumb about it was putting what everyone knows to be true "out there".

It ain't legal in Texas and is in Colorado. Ya get what you got.

[LandElephant]

Although I agree it was a dumb email, I understand why the coach did it.  Many residents of states where marijuana is legal don't understand that when you go to another state where it is illegal you are subject to their laws.  What makes it even worst is the Colorado Supreme Court upheld that an employees can be terminated for being under the influence of marijuana if that is stated in company policy just like alcohol.

So dealing with an eighteen year old who doesn't understand the laws and that it is a policy of the NCAA / University that marijuana is illegal and that he / she could be suspended or scholarship ineligible wasn't something he wanted to put the university through.

Right or wrong not my call. Understandable yes.  I've had to deal with that in my business with traveling workers.

Charlie Morse
Landelephant

[semo97]

That law and the rif-raf that has come from all over to work at the grow houses, crime went up in Pueblo Co. 157 % in 2015 and the far left government just pushed me out. I left Tx after 23 yrs. in 2012 and retired, moved near Rye in Pueblo Co. I left in 2016 went back to Tx. My wife agreed with the coach saying about time someone stood up, I thought he painted with a wide brush not all are pot heads. The pot problem has moved to the surrounding states if you get pulled over and they find pot. I have family in Neb. that work for the state and the state cost has gone up 10% due to jail time, court time and furnishing a lawyer. There has been law suits against Co. to recoup the cost but it has been thrown out. It is a mess glad I left and went back home.

[MarkT]

If you don't participate in the ganja culture the change has little effect.  Other than attracting more liberal voters aka dopers resulting in their stupid laws which is why the current liberal govt loves the whole thing. And too many in other states think you're in the culture. I have never been in a "green" store; quit being a pothead before I turned 30.  Has little effect on me.  Just means I have to be inconvenienced to circumvent their stupid magazine limits, etc.