Report: UGA’s Justin Houston tested positive for marijuana
Justin Houston at the combine. (AP photo)
Citing NFL sources, FoxSports is reporting that Georgia linebacker Justin Houston tested positive for marijuana at the combine in February. Given that the draft is two days away, such news could have broken at no worse time — for Houston, if not for the teams that might have been interested in him.
Such news could also have an impact on the local NFL team’s first choice. It’s widely believed the Falcons are in need of a defensive end, and there’s thought that Houston could be as effective as a down lineman in a 4-3 as at outside linebacker in a 3-4. (Houston played in both spots under both alignments at Georgia.) But the Falcons under Dimitroff have made it a practice to minimize draft risks.
Drafting Justin Houston just got riskier. I can’t see the Falcons picking him now, at least not in Round 1, and I’d be surprised if he’s taken by any team before Round 2. Which would be a shame. He’s a big-time talent with a huge upside. (Sorry to lapse into draftspeak.) All NFL teams cast a critical eye on the draft — this is, after all, their business — and at the moment every franchise has to look at Houston and wonder: “How many guys put themselves in position to flunk their audition?”
This doesn’t mean Houston won’t get drafted somewhere by somebody. This doesn’t mean he can’t become a productive professional for the next 10 days. But it does mean he’s not going to make the money as a rookie he could have.
By Mark Bradley
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Barkin'Dog
April 26th, 2011
3:37 pm
Poor boy… literally… when it comes to money in the NFL drafts
To Hell With GA
April 26th, 2011
3:38 pm
Shocking!
Smoke it up
April 26th, 2011
3:38 pm
A little weed–no big deal. NFL owners just care about winning baby, not taking some harmless drug.
Jim Mora Jr
April 26th, 2011
3:38 pm
First
Jim Mora Jr
April 26th, 2011
3:39 pm
Er, umm…fourth…
brasco
April 26th, 2011
3:39 pm
first?
Go figure
April 26th, 2011
3:39 pm
What an idiot to do that right before draft
Florida Guy
April 26th, 2011
3:40 pm
Stupid is as stupid does. Millions on the table and he risks it all for a few hits. Wow, this level of stupid is epic
Blast
April 26th, 2011
3:40 pm
Just another link in the uga chain of incompetence
uhh
April 26th, 2011
3:40 pm
Its just weed, but why have it in your system during such an important time?
IceFan
April 26th, 2011
3:41 pm
Maybe we will look past this and get him as a bargain in Round 2. This draft week is getting very interesting…..
Jim Mora Jr
April 26th, 2011
3:42 pm
Hey, first to say first has to count as something…
Or not.
Truth
April 26th, 2011
3:42 pm
so do this equal at the ruebon houston jokes by uga atleast?
Barkin'Dog
April 26th, 2011
3:42 pm
His draft status will be affected – and to think the Falcons have him picked in some mock drafts I’ve seen. Hope this works out for the young man… truly.
ATLSports
April 26th, 2011
3:43 pm
Not surprising coming from Georgia where discipline is not a high priority.
Harry
April 26th, 2011
3:45 pm
in other headlines around the state – “A Georgia Tech student escaped injury early Monday when he was robbed while walking to his car just south of campus”
Would never send my kid to Tech
Vince
April 26th, 2011
3:45 pm
Boy sho is dumb. Loss millions to get high. Obviously cant control himself or just doesnt care.
VD
Hollywould
April 26th, 2011
3:45 pm
Good, maybe the Falcons can get him in the 2nd round.
juvenal
April 26th, 2011
3:45 pm
only one reason to fail a scheduled drug test……
zack
April 26th, 2011
3:45 pm
and yet Pete Rose is banned from baseball…………….
topdawg
April 26th, 2011
3:45 pm
This has nothing to do with UGA, just a stupid personal decision.
H
April 26th, 2011
3:46 pm
Now we know why we really stunk last year….lack of common sense.
Luke
April 26th, 2011
3:46 pm
Dudes are gonna smoke pot. Thats not the issue. My issue with this is his intelligence. He KNOWS he has to take a drug test at the combine. He KNOWS THC cant stay inside of his system for up to 30 days. This isn’t anything new. So how could you be so STUPID and let something like this happen? All he has to do is not smoke 30 days before his drug test. Boom, done. If he’s not smart enough to do that, what makes any team going to think that he’s going to be smart enough not to do it on a Thursday night before a home game on Sunday? He’s definitely going in the second round now. No doubt about it.
allen981
April 26th, 2011
3:46 pm
Harmless? Obviously you’ve been smoking too much of it.
Beyond the brain damage and cancer risks, it was harmful to Houston, likely to the tune of a few million bucks (dropping out of the first round to the second or third).
That’s definitely not ‘harmless.’
Go ’smoke it up’ some more; the world needs another addle-brained pothead with no work ethic or incentive to succeed.
Sammy Dawg
April 26th, 2011
3:46 pm
Don’t even try to compare this with the yeckster Houston. Rueben is a drug dealer, a felon! Justin is a good kid who made a stupid kid mistake.
Mr. Obvious
April 26th, 2011
3:47 pm
Well, that is just about the ONLY kind of test one of Mark Richt’s undisciplined, bonehead, future-felon recruits could pass on their own.
John
April 26th, 2011
3:48 pm
I am so tired of seeing Georgia in the news for all the wrong reasons.
juvenal
April 26th, 2011
3:49 pm
harry, it was at midnight-
Big B
April 26th, 2011
3:49 pm
Its not the weed its the bigger issue which is how stupid is this kid? If you’re not smart enough to wait until after the combine then why should anyone draft you? Also he should fire his agent for not having the strenght to cover everything with him. Sad. I really hope he makes better choices in the future.
Mr. Obvious
April 26th, 2011
3:49 pm
Mark Richt = Jim Tressel with No Bible (or Actual Coaching Talent)
Big B
April 26th, 2011
3:50 pm
Sorry i meant to say how stupid he appears to be.
Smoke Dawg
April 26th, 2011
3:50 pm
“He smoke 2 joints in the morning, he smoke 2 joints at night, he smoke 2 joints at the combine, it make him feel all right”
MakD
April 26th, 2011
3:52 pm
I really don’t see this as a big deal. He doesn’t have any past history with pot before now. Its not like he was shooting steroids. And lets be honest these guys take a lot more addictive and damaging drugs for pain and other issues by trainers and doctors throughout their careers. A little weed never killed anybody. But for him to test positive for the combine is pretty stupid on his part.
What about the others
April 26th, 2011
3:52 pm
Hey Mark, what about all the others that failed? Including a University of Florida player. Are you going to talk about them too? Of course not!
bowman
April 26th, 2011
3:52 pm
Who knew? Houston is spelled with five letters: S-T-U-P-I-D.
Hurt Kurbstreit
April 26th, 2011
3:52 pm
Wow. Really stupid on Houston’s part. That will cost him a couple of million dollars.
Heath
April 26th, 2011
3:53 pm
Why can’t he be a fine young man like Cam Newton?
bowman
April 26th, 2011
3:53 pm
Now I feel pretty stupid. Can’t count to six, and I didn’t event go to UGA.
Lisa
April 26th, 2011
3:54 pm
Harry, your kid’s probably not smart enough to get in Tech anyway.
Beast from the East
April 26th, 2011
3:54 pm
He shoulda played for my Gators. LOL!
Hot sauce
April 26th, 2011
3:54 pm
Poor judgement by the young man. Clean it up, bro.
markie mark
April 26th, 2011
3:54 pm
hey Blast….he is an adult who is entitled to be stupid….as stupid as you are acting for tying his actions to UGA…..
Me
April 26th, 2011
3:54 pm
Paging Calvin Johnson . . .
AdMan
April 26th, 2011
3:54 pm
Hey Florida guy….you know what they say about glass houses don’t you? Looks like the whole Gator team has been getting “up” for the season a little early lately….Gators love that hoochie weed don’t they?
xhuff
April 26th, 2011
3:54 pm
surprise, suprise–what a big dummy……………
juvenal
April 26th, 2011
3:55 pm
harry, it was 12am-i’m not hanging around any downtown at midnite-that kid pulled a houston…….
Heath
April 26th, 2011
3:55 pm
Stupid is spelled with S-I-X letters.
I’m not sayin’
I’m just sayin’
rally
April 26th, 2011
3:56 pm
he might just be dayz away begging UGA to take him back. That was really dumb Justin. Such a promising career….however he can redeem himself if he will but just quit smoking the herb….ROFL
Sven Ottke
April 26th, 2011
3:56 pm
WHAT? A Georgia player doing something stupid? Say it ain’t so!!! I thought they did things “the Georgia way,” like Coach Richt said?
Bling , blang and weed
April 26th, 2011
3:56 pm
This is what Richt boys home fosters.
Beast from the East
April 26th, 2011
3:56 pm
@ what about the others,
So you don’t feel so picked on, you poor soul.
http://www.gatorsports.com/article/20110426/ARTICLES/110429618/1136?Title=Report-UF-lineman-tested-positive-for-marijuana
Precsription Dawg
April 26th, 2011
3:56 pm
“A little weed–no big deal.”
Just ask Quincy.
Neck
April 26th, 2011
3:57 pm
Ask Warren Sapp if it matters…….cost him about 4 or 5 million clams!
EW
April 26th, 2011
3:57 pm
bummer
longdog
April 26th, 2011
3:57 pm
Why use UGA as this guy isn’t UGA anymorw
Tech Buzz
April 26th, 2011
3:58 pm
“Would never send my kid to Tech”
—-
your kid couldn’t get in tech—it’s meant for the elite in academics. Send you kid to the university of football in athens. Party the whole time!
juvenal
April 26th, 2011
3:58 pm
as bad as the Falcons need a DE, it would be stupid for them not to take Houston or Bowers if available…..
really???
April 26th, 2011
3:59 pm
So you really think that marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol and cigarettes? Oh wait, alcohol and cigarettes have big time lobbyists helping to keep them legal.
MakD
April 26th, 2011
4:00 pm
Hey allen981, their has actually been a study that marijuana does not increase a person’s risk to get cancer. A quick article from the Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729.html
D A DoubleU G
April 26th, 2011
4:00 pm
Enter your comments here
Not A Hewitt Fan
April 26th, 2011
4:01 pm
This isnt the dumbest thing the kid did….after all he went to UGA……LOL
OtisTheDrunk
April 26th, 2011
4:02 pm
Hey Houston…we have a problem! YOU are a dumb a$$ thug…and I’m a UGA guy too and am basically ok with pot! BUT not when your draft is coming up and ya knew they drug test. Should have stuck with drinking the Colt 45 for now.
D A DoubleU G
April 26th, 2011
4:02 pm
It cracks me up that pompous Tech dork can make fun of a program for one of its former players testing positive for marijuana, when just last week they had Charlie Sheen come hand outwith the baseball team.
joe
April 26th, 2011
4:03 pm
YOU BIG DUMMY
Tom
April 26th, 2011
4:03 pm
Thanks, Mark. Had this been in Chip’s blog it would’ve ended with “Comments are closed”.
longdog
April 26th, 2011
4:04 pm
Just like the urinal and constipation they have not had a good reporter since Orville Gaines and Jesse Outler
SAV'H DAWG
April 26th, 2011
4:04 pm
Houston had 1.5 sacks in his last five games at Georgia. He disappeared against Fla. and Auburn
Dawghater
April 26th, 2011
4:06 pm
No, tell me it’s not so. I think it was a set up. A UGA player testing postive for drugs.
Mr. Obvious
April 26th, 2011
4:06 pm
I think we now know who Courtney Fuhrmann has been hooking up with since Damon “Doritos” Evans jetted from our fair state.
Dawglasville
April 26th, 2011
4:07 pm
Mr. Obvious Too funny with your felon jokes. I bet you kill at your Klan meetings.
tim
April 26th, 2011
4:07 pm
He tested positive 2 months ago. Soes it take that long for NFL teams to know results?
Dawghater
April 26th, 2011
4:07 pm
He must have skipped that day in class for Urine 101 the day they taught the players to find a clean friend for supply urine! I thought all the players took that course their freshman year!
"Good People"
April 26th, 2011
4:08 pm
Nuthin wrong with a little weed now and then.
Saben
April 26th, 2011
4:08 pm
jThe question is can anyone on the Georgia team pass a drug test?
1eyedJack
April 26th, 2011
4:08 pm
I think I’ll go to the crib and smoke one for my homies.
Soshul netwerks
April 26th, 2011
4:09 pm
why my comment banned?
Houston
April 26th, 2011
4:09 pm
Man I can score you some good, good stuff.
Charlie
April 26th, 2011
4:09 pm
Who cares about the draft? 90% of these players never play a down in the NFL. What an utter waste of time following this non-story.
Dawglasville
April 26th, 2011
4:10 pm
SAV’H DAWG Justin may have smoked 1.5 bags before those last five games and he kinda lost his focus.
Georgia Pride
April 26th, 2011
4:10 pm
First A. J. Green can’t spell cat if you spot him the c and the a, and now Houston shows just how dumb he is. The cesspool is working overtime.
secfactcheck.com
April 26th, 2011
4:11 pm
No worries, San Fransisco will draft him…
Bubbatavious
April 26th, 2011
4:12 pm
Its obvious many have been looking the other way at UGA for a while now.
jughead
April 26th, 2011
4:12 pm
Looks like another Adarius Bowman – Welcome to the CFL Justin!
Auburn Fans are horrible
April 26th, 2011
4:13 pm
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
Whiskey Clear
April 26th, 2011
4:13 pm
Shocker..
And topdawg – you’re right, violations are highly uncommon around UGA football, and there is absolutely no way any correlation can be made between these violations and your program, right?
DodgerDAWG
April 26th, 2011
4:13 pm
Bradley, it would be good to see information on the same report for Iowa defensive lineman Christian Ballard and how about a little love for our jort wearing neighbors to the south and give some coverage on Jenkins….Ah I forgot, you can only report negative news in UGA.
D A DoubleU G
April 26th, 2011
4:13 pm
WOW!!!
This might actually get kind of bad. TMZ is showing a video clip of he and other former team mates smoking together in the former temporary locker room…….
Here is the link they are sharing…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KDrPUcUsFY
icedawg
April 26th, 2011
4:13 pm
No doubt there are those who will insist that “everybody is doing it,” as if that means it should be approved. The rules are in place for a good reason. Some people simply have a difficult time with self-control staying away from things that harm them. People that habitually engage in such activity are at risk. If hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars are at stake in employing a player why take the risk if you are a businessman?
bucket
April 26th, 2011
4:14 pm
Houston can only blame himself for whatever happens now. However, smoking pot didn’t seem to hurt Percy Harvin and Aaron Hernandez draft status.
Precsription Dawg
April 26th, 2011
4:14 pm
Yeah, Non-Story, Who wants Guaranteed first round MILLIONS?
Einsteindawg
April 26th, 2011
4:14 pm
Mark, thanks for not taking the PC approach and closing this blog for comments. What are these kids thinking? Does he have a clue how much money he just threw away? What kind of influence did CMR have with him? What part of illegal drug and testing did he not understand? This is a symptom of the huge problem we have in today’s society…accountability. Just my opinion.
Seriously
April 26th, 2011
4:15 pm
Seriously? Weed? When will we grow up as a nation and get over this drug thing. Marijuana is a weed folks with a side effect. I doubt the NFL really cares as long as it isnt PCP or crack…
deezanutz
April 26th, 2011
4:15 pm
What do you expect he went to UGA….not surprised…..dumb ass SEC athletes always doing stupid ish..
swimdawg68
April 26th, 2011
4:16 pm
I hope he enjoyed those “joints”, they will cost him alot of money. How stupid do you need to be? Makes me wonder how we kept him in school for 3 years. Surprised he never tested positive at UGA, makes me wonder about our testing program. Wait a minute, he only smoked it one time, yeah right
Buckeye
April 26th, 2011
4:16 pm
One Fine Dawg
Evansdawg
April 26th, 2011
4:17 pm
Justin is not a player at UGA, so why do desparate fans of other schools point to UGA? People smoke weed. Probably a whole lot more people than some of you would care to imagine. It doesn’t make it right, and Houston knew he would be tested. Dumb decision…and thats about it. But, I’d rather a person smoke weed than drink alcohol. Drunks start fights, stoners break bread.
GIVE ME A BREAK
April 26th, 2011
4:17 pm
Enter your comments here
DAwggie
April 26th, 2011
4:17 pm
How ‘Bout the Dawgs!!!
bruce mac
April 26th, 2011
4:17 pm
Mr Obvious = Blow Hard Idiot
The Ghost of Wally Butts
April 26th, 2011
4:17 pm
Can we get any FULMER CUP points for this?
Don’t laugh. Hell, FULMER is the only championship we can win these days.
GIVE ME A BREAK
April 26th, 2011
4:18 pm
Richt’s and UGA’s nightmare continues. You can’t make this stuff up.
D A DoubleU G
April 26th, 2011
4:19 pm
a FORMER player testinmg positive for marijuana,
or
Charlie Sheen mentoring your entire baseball team????
Soshul netwerks
April 26th, 2011
4:19 pm
i bets he didnts inhales……
Reuben Houston
April 26th, 2011
4:19 pm
Some of you might be amazed at how many of these homies smoke pot- it’s an epidemic, and at far more schools than UGA. The Techster’s certainly have no room to talk after Reuben Houston 100 lbs of pot situation (a serious felony), the ineligble player debacle, and the Joe Hamilton incident. But yes, this was stupid and will cost him. Not sure that a kid becomes a “thug” for smoking weed either. Hypocrisy runs rampant on these anonymous boards.
Bill
April 26th, 2011
4:19 pm
He without sin, cast the first stone ! He without stupidity cast the first “complete sentence” ! This isn’t going to stop until we start mentoring these guys with armed guards……Does he deserve a second chance ? I’d say he does ! Should it be free ? I’d say “Not” ! I think he has to go through some type program that not only deals with addiction, but with common sense…..Personal note to Justin……You got too much talent to let the weed whack you……Please, take this chance to make a turn about…..been there, and yes, done that….God Bless you and good luck !
D A DoubleU G
April 26th, 2011
4:19 pm
I’ll take the marijuana test.
I have smoked many a marijuana in my younger days.
I seem to be doing just fine.
Buckeye
April 26th, 2011
4:20 pm
uga runs such a clean program I’m 100% positive he never smoked dope with any if his friends in Athens. Perhaps it’s time like it’s time to review the uga drug testing procedures? How could this possibly go on and Win With not know anything about it. Coverup theories, anyone?
D A DoubleU G
April 26th, 2011
4:22 pm
Buckeye,
I will take this headline ANYDAY as opposed to the headlines in the Columbus Dispacth and the NATIONAL media regarding ohio State Institute.
he's gone
April 26th, 2011
4:22 pm
at least he aint a dawg no more
thank goodness he left early!!
Glass Houses
April 26th, 2011
4:22 pm
There is so much hypocrisy here. People can’t wait to bash each other’s teams. If you were to drug test every NCAA D1 football player, there isn’t a team in the country who would have a 100% pass (maybe except BYU).
tokin dawg
April 26th, 2011
4:22 pm
all brotha’s take a toke…. get real
Buckeye
April 26th, 2011
4:22 pm
D A Double,
Were you a top NFL draft prospect at the time?
D A DoubleU G
April 26th, 2011
4:23 pm
2 words Techies…..
Charlie
Sheen
Bill
April 26th, 2011
4:23 pm
DA DoubleU G………D A U U G…..Guess you’re right, you can spell Dog with that…..smile
Buckeye
April 26th, 2011
4:24 pm
Glass Houses,
Yo Yo. But at least we know one of the Bro’s at BYU was gettin’ a little sumpin sumpin. Know what I mean, Dog.
DawginLex
April 26th, 2011
4:25 pm
We beat this to death on the other blog earlier today.
Mark, I scooped you
D A DoubleU G
April 26th, 2011
4:25 pm
I’ll tell you the only reason Georgia Tech nerds are here……..
THIS is why…… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4gKdiiGWmQ
42-34
Mr. Obvious
April 26th, 2011
4:25 pm
Coach Richt says that mentoring his charges into “Fine, Upstanding Men” is more important to him than winning championships.
It doesn’t sound like he has a “Bowl Eligible” record on doing that, either.
10 - 6 and no TD at SC
April 26th, 2011
4:25 pm
Maybe the dawgs will land in the Poulan Weed Bowl come December. Go you tokin Dawgs!
DawginLex
April 26th, 2011
4:26 pm
Buckeye,
houston was suspended to start the 2009 season for “violation of team rules”
you figure it out
Winner
April 26th, 2011
4:26 pm
so they either drinks and get arrested or smoke pot and get busted from UGA… so what else is news!!!!1
Buckeye
April 26th, 2011
4:26 pm
Justin,
Yo dawg, what’s a lid go for these days? Still three fingers and an ounce is four??
back atcha
April 26th, 2011
4:27 pm
Damn….just damn
Buckeye
April 26th, 2011
4:28 pm
Dawgin,
Guess you can take the dawg out of Athens but you can’t take Athens out of the dawg.
Mr. Obvious
April 26th, 2011
4:28 pm
There has got to be a good Pot-Meets-Kettle joke in this story somewhere.
Ry
April 26th, 2011
4:29 pm
What a dillweed. Jeapordizing first round money for a joint? He doesn’t deserve to be in the NFL.
Dewey, Cheathem and Howe
April 26th, 2011
4:29 pm
A college football player testing positive for marijuana. What a surprise. Next we’ll hear that fathers of college players ship their kids to the highest bidder…oh, wait.
He should fit right in in Atlanta. The smell of marijuana is like Lysol in some parts of town.
Eat and Tweet
April 26th, 2011
4:29 pm
Man if I takes a toke I gets the munchies.
CWalkson
April 26th, 2011
4:30 pm
The headline should read………..”Pot use by FORMER UGA player”. Justin Houston doesn’t play for Georgia anymore. Obviously the news is worth reporting, but come on AJC – typical form from this paper. The kid should have gotten some Golden Seal!!!!!!!!!!
Dawglasville
April 26th, 2011
4:31 pm
Buckeye – You come on the blog and sometimes you play nice. Then there is the alter-Buckeye… I’ll give it to you. No one would ever mention you beloved Buckeyes on this blog if it wasn’t for you. So good work…?
Rich
April 26th, 2011
4:32 pm
Just because Tech players did it, does not make it smart. Also, it did not cost them millions of dollars.
Father Flannigan
April 26th, 2011
4:32 pm
I bet Howdy Doody and Mr. Adams are scratching their heads right now.
Mr. Obvious
April 26th, 2011
4:32 pm
Nick Saban is not the smarter coach in football, but the job Mark Richt does on “reforming” his little ghetto-reclamation projects through football makes Coach Saban look that way by comparison.
U of A = ROLL TIDE !!!!
UGA = ROLL GANJA !!!!!
rduck
April 26th, 2011
4:33 pm
Many players smoke weed now and then. Only dumba$$’s smoke weed right before the NFL combine when their future is riding on their performance. Sure hope the Falcons pass on this guy. With his level of intelligence, he may light up in the huddle…
juvenal
April 26th, 2011
4:34 pm
at least d a is posting on a dauug story, for a change…..
Jim
April 26th, 2011
4:34 pm
Wouldn’t a more appropriate, albeit accurate, headline have been: “Former UGA player…”
Mr. Green Jeans
April 26th, 2011
4:36 pm
Whats wrong with a little herb now and then? But then again Ive always wondered why UGA’s O line and D line looked like a bunch of dancin Bears.
ManUp...
April 26th, 2011
4:36 pm
Immaturity. Not ready for millions of dollars and fame.
Blame whomever you want, that’s just a lack of some key life skills right there.
TechRon
April 26th, 2011
4:38 pm
This conservative Republican says: “Who gives a damn if a college student smoked a little bit of pot? I bet 80% of the students at UGA have done so before. Get a life. Report some news.”
bakerman
April 26th, 2011
4:38 pm
Typical Dawg.
Babineaux
April 26th, 2011
4:38 pm
It was medical marijuana to calm his nerves.
PMC
April 26th, 2011
4:39 pm
Two words…. Reuben Houston. That is all.
Eat and Tweet
April 26th, 2011
4:40 pm
houston just thought he was ready for the “High Life”.
ManUp...
April 26th, 2011
4:40 pm
By the way, try keeping this about Georgia and not any of your rivals. GT and UF didn’t give the kid weed and tell him it was cool to smoke it right before what amounts to a strenuous period of job interviews. Hopefully he grows up a little from this…
Dan
April 26th, 2011
4:42 pm
It should read “Former Georgia Player…..”. If he’s in the NFL combine he’s not a Georgia player anymore dumbarse!
bob dylan
April 26th, 2011
4:42 pm
Enter your comments here
01HAWK
April 26th, 2011
4:42 pm
GUARANTEED 1ST ROUND MONEY YOU HAVE LOST…………………HOW STUPID !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PMC
April 26th, 2011
4:43 pm
I’m guessing since more than half of the league and likely college football players too smoke on a regular basis, even though it was incredibly dumb to fail a test at the combine when you knew it was coming for several months it won’t affect him all that much.
He was a very borderline first round pick at best anyway. It may hurt Ballard quite a bit more.
Gay Dawg
April 26th, 2011
4:43 pm
People need to stop hating. Justin smokes a little grass and he is killed. Meanwhile Nick Fairley is trying to end careers with cheap shots and he is fine!
Kiffin is my hero
April 26th, 2011
4:44 pm
That is 2 less than florida.
Ricky 4
April 26th, 2011
4:45 pm
Idiot
bob dylan
April 26th, 2011
4:45 pm
I wouldn’t be that worried if I was an NFL team. Mark Richt certainly didn’t mind if he smoked a little pot, or a lot of pot. If you don’t think he was blazing that sh*t up on the reg, then you are about as dumb and naive as Richt. Its part of his routine. He goes and knocks around some O-linemen, sacks some QB’s and unwinds with a fat spliff at the end of the day. It worked for him at UGA, I dont see why it can’t work in the NFL.
PMS
April 26th, 2011
4:45 pm
The sad fact is that weed can stay in your system for up to 30 days or longer, so if you have a job that drug tests for it you can in fact be fired for something you did a month ago that had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH YOUR JOB, AND OCCURRED WHEN YOU WERE IN THE PRIVACY OF YOUR OWN HOME MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS AND ENJOYING YOUR CONSTITUTIONALLY “PROTECTED” RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS…..
I guess employers feel better having crackheads around who managed to stop smoking for a week or so to get it out of their system than they do having someone who smoked a joint three weeks ago…
I always laugh when people who had no jail records and managed to pass a drug “test” are arrested for ripping the employer off or committing some unthinkable crime…. Yeah, keep discriminating against people who may smoke a joint every now and then or who got in trouble when they were younger (and usually a lot stupider). This approach will keep the lawyers busy into the next century…. Maybe just before this country goes belly up and we formally surrender to the Chinese we’ll start to actually “think” for ourselves instead of letting others tell us what to think….. Oh, wait a minute; it’ll be too late then wont it?????????
Damage Inc.
April 26th, 2011
4:45 pm
WOW!! A young man in the prime of his life smokes a little. BIG DEAL.
My only problem is timing, timing, timing…
Stevie Garcia
April 26th, 2011
4:46 pm
hey gringo that was stupid…..
Gay Dawg
April 26th, 2011
4:47 pm
Lets worry about a little weed while Cam Newton cheats his way to the first pick!!!!
conraddobler
April 26th, 2011
4:47 pm
Well smoking pot certainly didn’t harm Michael Phelps’ endorsements…but then again it’s “Michael Phelps”…
Pago Pago DAWG
April 26th, 2011
4:47 pm
Can you imagine the Mannings, Joe Montana, Fran, Brady, YA Tittle acting like this!
ManUp...
April 26th, 2011
4:48 pm
“I don’t undastand, coach…they told me I’d be tested for “SEC Speed” so dat’s what I had quit doin! You aint say I needed to quit da kush!”
stevemwt
April 26th, 2011
4:51 pm
Florida Guy, go back and check Percy Harvin prior to the draft, equally as stupid as Justin. Both are dopes.
sammiamm
April 26th, 2011
4:52 pm
he heard “strike” and thought they meant “strike one up”…
harmless (relatively), but a shame nonetheless.
no crack baggies off Techwood or Northside, right? yeah, right.
bob dylan
April 26th, 2011
4:52 pm
doesn’t he know that you can buy certain products to pass drug tests? if he learned anything in Athens I thought that would be one of em
Just in Hughstin
April 26th, 2011
4:52 pm
Taken a toke and laughing at the joke by coke.
Eagle Dawg
April 26th, 2011
4:53 pm
This has NOTHING to do with UGA or CMR. He is free and clear of the university. This has to do with a PERSONAL decision. Stupid nonetheless, but now maybe he will suffer consequences.
robertussen
April 26th, 2011
4:53 pm
oh no not pot
John
April 26th, 2011
4:54 pm
Not newsworthy. Next.
Babineaux
April 26th, 2011
4:54 pm
The Oakland Raiders will draft Houston with no questions asked.
William Conrad as Frank Cannon
April 26th, 2011
4:54 pm
Nothin better than a big fat spliff.
Coach(sic) Paul Johnson
April 26th, 2011
4:55 pm
Georgia Tech has lost 5 of their last 6 football games, only beating Duke.
So a KID in the prime of his life, who is a big athlete on a college campus in a college town smokes weed………..
And this isn’t even an arresting story, just a positive test…..
Ummmm….. yeah. Sure the timing was off on his part, but other than that, this would actually make me want to send my kid to UGA over the every other day mugging story about Georgia Tech students……
oh look!! Here is one in TODAY’S home page…… http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/georgia-tech-student-robbed-925081.html
Clipboard Joe
April 26th, 2011
4:56 pm
okay…. spoonin or tokin? The choice is yours……..
Sensitive Dawg
April 26th, 2011
4:57 pm
Our rivals are equally dumb. Actually they are not in position to make millions.
HB
April 26th, 2011
4:57 pm
Dumb A*S*S
athensdawg
April 26th, 2011
4:58 pm
i am shocked…SHOCKED..that one of Mark Ray Donnan’s fine boys would be doing this….someone should let him talk to quincy carter.
TallaDawg
April 26th, 2011
4:58 pm
Allen981 @3:46 your argument is circular. He lost millions (is harmed) because a few people SAY tha it is harmful, therefore the fact that it is harmful is proven. Yeah, right. And, pleanty of substances cause cancer and harm the brain more severely than pot. We watse an inexcusable amount of money trying to legislate and control what is in fact morality.
UGA class of 2003
April 26th, 2011
4:59 pm
I smoked a LOT of weed in college, at UGA, with football players at times.
Those of you who want to act like it doesn’t happen at your school are simply idiotic.
I also currently work for a very successful company, and hold a very successful position with them. I still hit a bowl now and then, but not like I did in college……
Funny thing is, Justin Houston is STILL going to make more money than anybody (even the Techies) can fathom.
bob dylan
April 26th, 2011
4:59 pm
Eagle Dawg, bless your heart. I admire your confidence, but c’mon buddy. The kid was smoking pot during his days at UGA. Why would he not smoke put when he was there, but leave and right before the biggest job interview of his entire life pick up the habit. Only difference is…when he was at UGA he didn’t get tested…. I mean caught.
Coach(sic) Mark Richt
April 26th, 2011
5:00 pm
As Mr. College Football Tony Barnhart said,
” Johnson’s critics will eat their words once again.”
Oxy Cotton Dawg
April 26th, 2011
5:00 pm
this is a better high 4 real. Come on justin!
ManUp...
April 26th, 2011
5:01 pm
Next Dawg fan to mention any school that is NOT UGA gets a point-n-laugh.
Duke has these same issues ......... because my ...
April 26th, 2011
5:01 pm
I have nephews that attend Vandy and Duke and GT and yes, they ALL smoke weed. No, they do not play ball but yes, they are very bright and YES, they smoke Hooch. I
could care less ……….. they are not my kids and neither is Justin Houston, although as a UGA man, I have to admit, he IS REAL DUMB doing that at the combines. Dumb and it cost him some $$$ jack. His decision ………….so let him live with it.
Haters ……… especially those of you with no education ………. this ain’t a UGA thing, it is a kid thing and yes, 21 and 22 and 23 year olds still do that.
Gooooooooooooooooo Dogs.
You are kidding, Right?
April 26th, 2011
5:02 pm
Dude, when you said you were doing “mary jane” in Athens, we assumed it was one of Damon’s girls.
Clearly you were not, but “What were you thinking?”
EVERYBODY knows they test for that stuff.
William Conrad as Frank Cannon
April 26th, 2011
5:04 pm
Even though I havent seen my feet in years a big fat spliff is so good every once in a while.
Evansdawg
April 26th, 2011
5:04 pm
GIVE ME A BREAK – How is this a continuation of Richt’s nightmare? A former player smokes some pot. OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH…how scandalous. (Eyes rolling.) Test all of the present players at ALL of the Div 1 schools. There would be nothing left of the rosters. All of you people casting stones are idiots. BTW, Mark…when is the last time you lit up, paperboy?
Babineaux
April 26th, 2011
5:05 pm
The Oakland Raiders will draft
Justin Houston AND Ryan Mallet.
Prescription Dawg
April 26th, 2011
5:06 pm
Pot defenders – Did you smoke before the biggest interview of your lifetime? The problem is the possibility of bigger problems like low intellect or more than a little pot smoking going on.
HowMessedUp
April 26th, 2011
5:06 pm
well isn’t this just great journalism… what a headline grabber… “Pot use by UGA Player”… hasn’t he moved on.. he’s not on the team anymore…. come on AJC! How about “Pot use by Former UGA Player”.
Evansdawg
April 26th, 2011
5:06 pm
I BOUGHT WEED FROM MULTIPLE PLAYERS AT UGA WHEN I WAS A STUDENT THERE. ITS THE ONLY WAY THEY COULD MAKE A DOLLAR. So how is this news??
Carl
April 26th, 2011
5:07 pm
Think this was a random event? Not.
And those who say just pot and it’s victimless are idiots.
sheepdawg
April 26th, 2011
5:07 pm
Typical CMR recruit and player. More shame, and with no end or change in sight………go dawgs…….
blue
April 26th, 2011
5:08 pm
Smoke it up
April 26th, 2011
3:38 pm
A little weed–no big deal. NFL owners just care about winning baby, not taking some harmless drug.
And anyone else with the “no big deal”. It is absolutely NOT about the harmless drug or that he smoked it. It is the lack of good decision making that would scare teams. “If he knows he is going to get tested and still does it, what kind of decision is he going to make the night of the Superbowl one day (Eugene Robinson)?”. You are right…the weed itself is NOT the big deal (like it would be if it was crack or something). This was just STUPID…
bob dylan
April 26th, 2011
5:08 pm
yeah well you know what, carl. you are such a marvin. why don’t you go read a book or go watch MSNBC
Harvey Updyke
April 26th, 2011
5:10 pm
I smoke tree’s
WebMD
April 26th, 2011
5:10 pm
Marijuana has been used 10,000 years longer than alcohol,
and causes much less violence.
HowMessedUp
April 26th, 2011
5:10 pm
But how dumb is this… just plain old disregard for society’s rules….
CONservative Johnson
April 26th, 2011
5:11 pm
Teams have passed on Hall of Famers because of weed. I say grade the player and if the grade says he should be drafted at a certain place, draft him . . .
UGA class of 2003
April 26th, 2011
5:12 pm
I wish Mark Bradley would admit that the headline choice is wrong, and was strictly used to conjure up more hits.
It worked, but it is a little unethical if you ask me.
Aaron Murray: UGA player
Brandon Boykin: UGA player
Ben Jones: UGA player
Matt Stafford: FORMER UGA player
Knowshon Moreno: FORMER UGA player
David Pollack: FORMER UGA player
Herschel Walker: FORMER UGA player
Justin Houston: FORMER UGA player.
I seem to remember just a few weeks ago when Jarret Jack was arrested for a DUI in Gwinnett, and all the Techies shrugged it off because he was a FORMER Yellow Jacket player…….
headley lamar
April 26th, 2011
5:13 pm
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/tech-baseball-player-skole-856270.html
Matt Skole a white Ga Tech baseball player could have killed someone with his car but it barely gets mentioned.
A black FORMER Uga football player tests positive for Marijuana and its a big deal.
Double standard. You betcha.
UGA class of 2003
April 26th, 2011
5:14 pm
Remember when Morgan Burnett was arrested for driving with a suspended license up around Lake Allatoona between leaving Tech and being drafted???
Techies shrugged it off because he was a FORMER Yellow Jacket player…….
Is this logic starting to make sense yet Techies???
Just saying
April 26th, 2011
5:16 pm
For all you idiots out there this is not a Georgia issue. This is a Houston issue. Quit embarressing yourself by showing your “IQ – azz” by making it a Georgia issue. Just saying…
Live free or die
April 26th, 2011
5:16 pm
Are we sure FAUX SPORTS is telling the truth ?
D A DoubleU G
April 26th, 2011
5:16 pm
Headley Lamar,
shut up.
This is not a race thing. It’s the ugly end of a rivalry in which UGA and Tech LOVE to bash the other for anything embarrassing that happens to anybody remotely related to the other’s program.
juvenal
April 26th, 2011
5:17 pm
i think 680 said Bowers was +, also..again, trying to get back to the Falcons(i seldom post on pure dauug topics), as there are very few pass rushing DE’s, if either of these fall to where the Falcons are picking, they would be crazy not to take them-after all, Calvin admitted he’d tried it……
juvenal
April 26th, 2011
5:18 pm
& you can’t spell ugaly without uga……
William C Smith
April 26th, 2011
5:20 pm
Most of these kids didn’t turn down Harvard to play in the SEC. Also, the only good thing coming out of this is that other schools are worst. If I am ever caught for stealing anything I hope you remember Bernie Madoff.
Puffing the ganja could cost a former Georgia Bulldog
April 26th, 2011
5:20 pm
[...] April 26, 2011 Justin Houston, a standout DE/LB at UGA that opted to skip his senior year, has possibly puffed his way out of some cash: Citing NFL sources, FoxSports is reporting that Georgia linebacker Justin Houston tested positive [...]
ga tech 92
April 26th, 2011
5:21 pm
Irene P. Waters: So I smoked some pot, what is that a crime?
Patrick
April 26th, 2011
5:21 pm
HOW IS THIS STORY HEADLINE NEWSWORTHY??????
headley lamar
April 26th, 2011
5:21 pm
This is not a race thing. It’s the ugly end of a rivalry in which UGA and Tech LOVE to bash the other for anything embarrassing that happens to anybody remotely related to the other’s program.
If you don’t think race has anything to do with it your wrong. Hey I’m white but when I hear the Tech fans call UGA players thugs its basically code for “black”. Just like the birther nuts. Its just a veil for them to hide their racism.
Ga Shawty
April 26th, 2011
5:21 pm
This is not Houston’s first time testing positive for marijuana. As a UGA student, I remember back in 2009 Houston was suspended because he failed a school administered drug test aka “violating team policy.” All the UGA players are potheads. If you randomly drug test any UGA football player, I gurantee 90% would fail it.
http://www.sicemdawgs.com/2009/05/bruce-figgins-justin-houston-suspended-violation-team-rules/
D A DoubleU G
April 26th, 2011
5:22 pm
headly,
how do you make words italicized in your post?
Damn Good Dawg
April 26th, 2011
5:24 pm
Pro Football Weekly reports Gators OL Maurice Hurt tested positive for pot at scouting combine.
ga tech 92
April 26th, 2011
5:25 pm
headley lamar – I didn’t read all the posts, but if someone said “thug”…what word would you prefer them to use that you won’t call ‘racist’? Thug is a word, not realated to color…give us a new word.
Babineaux
April 26th, 2011
5:26 pm
Yea headly,
tell us how to make words italicized.
D A DoubleU G
April 26th, 2011
5:27 pm
Matt Skole is a thug, and he is white.
headley lamar
April 26th, 2011
5:29 pm
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/tech-baseball-player-skole-856270.html
Matt Skole a white Ga Tech baseball player could have killed someone with his car but it barely gets mentioned.
A black FORMER Uga football player tests positive for Marijuana and its a big deal.
Double standard. You betcha
brian
April 26th, 2011
5:30 pm
yes he will indeed be a 1st round pick pot or no pot
mike
April 26th, 2011
5:30 pm
did he smoke with the allman brothers or grateful dead….really who cares..he can play
Retard
April 26th, 2011
5:31 pm
Can you say 3rd round!!!!!!
headley lamar
April 26th, 2011
5:31 pm
To italicize you have to start the sentence with (i) and end it with (/i)
THOSE AREN’T THE REAL SYMBOLS. USE THE GREATER THAN OR LESS THAN SYMBOLS INSTEAD. OBVIOUSLY IF I USED THEM HERE IT WOULD ITALICIZE INSTEAD OF SHOWING U.
D A DoubleU G
April 26th, 2011
5:31 pm
I personally hope the Falcons still take him.
Whoever picks him, will one day have fans right back on these very blogs trying to rub it in that the Falcons were so idiotc for skipping on him.
ryan
April 26th, 2011
5:32 pm
How come the AJC ignored the Janoris Jenkins story he was arrested 3 times typical AJC when its a UGA player the jump on the story the Jenkins arrest is more serious .
2 field goals and a cloud of Bobo
April 26th, 2011
5:32 pm
headley lamar is able to read a person’s mind, especially GT fans.
Come on man.
chuck
April 26th, 2011
5:33 pm
Mr. Bradley and all other writers. Justin Houston is no longer a member of
georgia’s football team, so stop referring to him as that, or is it that you just can’t stand to let a slap at the dawgs go by. It is so pathetic. Georgia didn’t have anything to do with the situation, so let up!.
Race Card
April 26th, 2011
5:33 pm
You Go Headley.
UGAgrad71
April 26th, 2011
5:33 pm
Another dumb (6 letters)
Brilliant move by Justin Houston - VolNation
April 26th, 2011
5:34 pm
[...] move by Justin Houston The whole world knows you gotta pee in a cup at the NFL Combine. Report: UGA's Justin Houston tested positive for marijuana | Mark Bradley Hope it was good stuff. It probably cost him 7 [...]
ryan
April 26th, 2011
5:35 pm
Houston makes the front page but no mention of Jenkins being arrested 3 times .
juvenal
April 26th, 2011
5:35 pm
i guess uga volk don’t think anti-Asian slurs are racist-the first D1 football players in this state went to Tech-believe most of the Tech players dauugs like to bring up, even though only 5-10% of the problems they have up stoned mtn freeway, are not white-also, LOVE to bring up crime at Tech(what color was those 2 bandit?)…
Mr. Obvious
April 26th, 2011
5:36 pm
With using illegal drugs right before a PLANNED, KNOWN & PRE-SCHEDULED Drug Test, Mr. Houston could not look any more unintelligent, unwise and uneducated if he had gotten a neck tattoo.
Dr. Phil
April 26th, 2011
5:36 pm
Richt’s players have a hard time understanding that bad behavior has consequences.
WTF
April 26th, 2011
5:37 pm
Wonder if Joe Hamilton is his dealer? Got give those GT guys credit for being entrepreneurial
Weasal Dawg
April 26th, 2011
5:37 pm
It says UGA’s Justin Houston. Is he not still a student?
hey....
April 26th, 2011
5:37 pm
ALL DAWG!!
Sven Ottke
April 26th, 2011
5:38 pm
You UGa idiots don’t get it. It’s not the fact that he smoked pot. So what? It’s his sheer stupidity in timing you dolts. He has cost himself a spot in the first round and millions in coin. He’s too stupid to know when and when not to smoke pot. Do you have to have everything spelled out for you tools?
D A DoubleU G
April 26th, 2011
5:38 pm
Matt SKole is a thug.
Matt Skole is white.
If every UGA player that has been arrested for suspended driver’s licenses, not paying speeding tickets, possessing fireworks, drinking underage at college, emerging from alley’s on scooters, etc are “thugs”, then Matt Skole must be a Mob-Boss.
Matt Skole = thug
Coach Dooley
April 26th, 2011
5:39 pm
Do ya think the Ga staff already knew he used??? Hello- hello!!!
D A DoubleU G
April 26th, 2011
5:40 pm
Correct me ifI am wrong,
but didn’t Jonathan Dwyer fail some type of drug test or something at his combine which came out just before the draft, which plummeted him down to late 7th round??
juvenal
April 26th, 2011
5:40 pm
wtf, they take business classes(extra e, tho)-Lex, griffin gate ok?-(pot)headley, it’s ok, i don’t read italian…….
McDawg
April 26th, 2011
5:41 pm
why is the NFL even testing for pot??
JTH
April 26th, 2011
5:41 pm
Did he get the weed from Jonathon Babineaux?
juvenal
April 26th, 2011
5:41 pm
d a, you never drove…er…that way?
Historian
April 26th, 2011
5:41 pm
Not the first time this has happened. He basically pulled a Warren Sapp, who cost himself even more money before the draft.
D A DoubleU G
April 26th, 2011
5:43 pm
Of course I have.
I am sure you have driven drunk or illegally buzzed as well.
I am sure 90% of the people on this blog have crawled behind the wheel while drunk.
I personally do not think Matt Skole is a thug. I am more so writing those hings to let you Techies realize how f-ing STUPID you sound when things like that happen to UGA players.
UGASlobberknocker
April 26th, 2011
5:44 pm
I dont think it will matter that much when it comes to his draft position. He was projected as a late first rounder by some..but mostly as a 2nd rounder..I dont see him dropping to the third round even with this. He is too good.
I heard Chris Mortensen say on 680 the fan one time that it as many as 60% of NFL players smoke regularly and the teams are aware of it (in a generalized way)
Even though I know things probably wont change in my lifetime..I am constantly amazed that our society differentiates so much between weed and alcohol where by every measure, weed is the less damaging vice. Drinking alcohol to excess debilitates people far more than smoking too much weed does. People dont get violent when they are buzzed like they do when they are drunk. And physically, your body feels great the next day while with alcohol, the hangover is rough.
I know this, or course . by reading a lot.
Seriously, Im 50 plus now but when I was in college I smoked some pot as did about everybody else..good bad or ugly smart or dumb black or white. people I knew there who you would recognize today..and nobody ended up a heroin addict either believe it or not.
And if it were legalized, you would not only take the criminal element of it and clean out the jails, but make a lot of tax revenue on it at a time when that is needed. OK Im through preaching now
Italics
April 26th, 2011
5:44 pm
This is a test
Italics
April 26th, 2011
5:45 pm
Successful!
iPot-Headley/i
April 26th, 2011
5:45 pm
It’s All About Race
Babineaux
April 26th, 2011
5:46 pm
The Oakland Raiders quit testing for pot in 1969.
NoLion
April 26th, 2011
5:46 pm
I find it hard to believe, that he is the only one who tested positive. This was probably the first test he passed by himself.LOL. Anyway, he must have tested negative for steriods..
Alabama Communist
April 26th, 2011
5:46 pm
Up in smoke as usual, but who cares, they will not play next season due to shortage of Weed and 9 Billion bucks………
D A DoubleU G
April 26th, 2011
5:46 pm
Italics!!!!
How’s you do it??
Please share!!!!
Im glad drinking age was 18 when I was in college
April 26th, 2011
5:46 pm
I know Skole’s family..Matt Skole is a great kid who drank a couple too many beers as a 20 yr old. If anyone judges a kid harshly for that, they either a/skipped from age 15 to 40..or never had kids.
Accountabilabuddy
April 26th, 2011
5:48 pm
He is from Statesboro, GA
Hour of Power
April 26th, 2011
5:48 pm
Good Sermon, ….. UGASlobberknocker.
Houston Tests Positive for Stupidity
April 26th, 2011
5:48 pm
http://isportsweb.com/2011/04/26/justin-houston-fails-drug-test/
doggoneit
April 26th, 2011
5:51 pm
I believe he took plays off at Georgia . And I believe he will be a bust in the NFL
ATL Sports Fan
April 26th, 2011
5:51 pm
Very interesting that you can comment about Justin Houston’s positive test, you couldn’t post anything about Jake Skole being popped with a DUI. Also no post about the Florida lineman who tested positive and you know we couldn’t blog about Janoris Jenkins being arrested for being caught with pot. So what gives Mark Bradley. You got your wish when Hewitt was fired….
ATL Sports Fan
April 26th, 2011
5:53 pm
Moron, no one is judging him for underage drinking, its the fact he was loaded and behind the wheel of a car. What if he ran over someone in your family or hit their car killing one of your family members. Would you still feel sorry for the GOOD KID….??
Im glad drinking age was 18 when I was in college
April 26th, 2011
5:46 pm
I know Skole’s family..Matt Skole is a great kid who drank a couple too many beers as a 20 yr old. If anyone judges a kid harshly for that, they either a/skipped from age 15 to 40..or never had kids.
NORML
April 26th, 2011
5:55 pm
If NFL Europe still existed, Justin Houston could play for the Amsterdam Admirals.
But they folded in 2007.
Blizzard
April 26th, 2011
5:55 pm
Who cares? Obviously he is still a great athlete. Mind your own business.
It Ain't Rocket Science
April 26th, 2011
5:58 pm
I would bet that it will have little or no affect, on his placement in the draft. The NFL is all about the bucks and it will take a little more than smoking some weed to scare off the owner that needs a person of his skills and position. If he can catch onto a team and not get into any further trouble with drugs while he is playing, five years from now, nobody will care that he failed an NFL pre-draft drug test, Unless of course it is a person that has to find some way to try and put down UGA; Say, for instance, some school close by that, has a poor record in head to head meetings.
Creative Loafing
April 26th, 2011
5:59 pm
Now the Justin Houston story
has turned into the Matt Skole story.
headley lamar
April 26th, 2011
6:03 pm
I know Skole’s family..Matt Skole is a great kid who drank a couple too many beers as a 20 yr old.
He didn’t say he had beers. He admitted to drinking whiskey.
Which is worse? Smoking a joint or getting loaded and getting behind the wheel putting yourself and everyone else on the road at danger?
Former UGA player gets his own blog. Current Tech player barely was mentioned.
Double Standard. You betcha.
Randall "Pink" Floyd
April 26th, 2011
6:03 pm
Big Dawg fan here. Always thought Houston was overrated. He is talented but I disagree with MB that his upside is “huge.”
Mrs. Manners
April 26th, 2011
6:04 pm
Maybe he can catch on with a team and not get into any further trouble.
Maybe not.
Another weed story
April 26th, 2011
6:04 pm
[...] weed story Report: UGA's Justin Houston tested positive for marijuana | Mark Bradley At least it was after he was gone from UGA. These guys sho is dumb Reply With [...]
ATL Sports Fan
April 26th, 2011
6:06 pm
Creative Loafing, I was repsonding to a few previous posts. I just asked the question why you can post comments about this article but we could not post comments on the article about Matt Skole’s DUI. Doesn’t seem right in my book.
NORML
April 26th, 2011
6:07 pm
headley is right, whiskey is much more dangerous than weed.
juvenal
April 26th, 2011
6:10 pm
d a, in D.C., ANY detectable etoh is a dui(i.e., one drink)-don’t post on the mistakes young folks make, born a sinner, still a sinner, not as bad i hope because of the errors-you can learn a lot in college outside the classroom, probably learn more from your mistakes than anything else-nerdy enough i may be the only person in the USA that never smoked pot(always afraid i’d like it too much)
59bulldawg
April 26th, 2011
6:11 pm
Pretty damn stupid if you ask me!
old timer
April 26th, 2011
6:12 pm
Mark, I have been reading your posts for a long time.The ajc gets a big bang out of your a$$ way of headlining stories about u g a.thank GOD i wont ever again read your tripe .You cannot put the right headline on a story about u.g.a.there’s a difference between a u.g.a.football player and a former u.ga.player.Ban me see if i give a Sh.
EFFIE'S of Athens Boarding House
April 26th, 2011
6:12 pm
All this started with Fox News, … I mean Fox Sports.
headley lamar
April 26th, 2011
6:12 pm
Creative Loafing, I was repsonding to a few previous posts. I just asked the question why you can post comments about this article but we could not post comments on the article about Matt Skole’s DUI. Doesn’t seem right in my book.
Because Mr Skoles goes to Tech and Mr Houston UGA,
There is a double standard.
ryan
April 26th, 2011
6:13 pm
This a yawn story Obama smoked pot Bill Clinton smoked pot who cares .
Thanks Old Timer
April 26th, 2011
6:15 pm
Thanks, OT for saying what I wanted to say … in a little bit different way. If you can’t get someone to read your articles due the quality of the content, just lie in the headline. What journalism class did you learn that in Mark?
“How to get someone to at least read your article 101″
Vince
April 26th, 2011
6:16 pm
Just another Georgia football playa! So, what’s the problem? I been smokin as long as I be here…
Colorado reality
April 26th, 2011
6:17 pm
I live and Denver and ask 11 individuals ( male and female) if they consider Ga Tech a upper level academic institution? Not one of the 11 considered Ga Tech a top level university. One actually said, well it is not recognized like Colorado, Vandy or Duke. Outside of Georgia, unfortunately, Ga Tech is not recognized as great academic school. I know they don’t play Basketball or Football well, but Tech fans are living a lie. People outside of the Southeast don’t even know what conference GT
is in.
Non Story
April 26th, 2011
6:17 pm
Calvin Johnson smoked pot and was drafted #2 overall. It doesn’t matter when it comes to drafting quality players. Teams don’t base their picks on whether a guy smokes pot or not. The Falcons traded up to get a pot smoking player with the #1 pick when they got Mike Vick. When you watch the NFL, you are watching a bunch of dope smokers so don’t act like a moralist when one of them gets caught.
gtfanfrom1951
April 26th, 2011
6:18 pm
Hey he did go to UGA! Where Football players pee on the sidewalk and drive without a DL. And steal from their future team mates. Just so that they can fix in!
SEC Fan
April 26th, 2011
6:25 pm
There’s a UF player who just had his 2nd or 3rd arrest, and more than likely he’ll be playing n the fall for Florida. AJC just loves to put it all on UGA. NOTHING ABOUT THE CURRENT FLORIDA PLAYER IN THE AJC.
BG
April 26th, 2011
6:25 pm
Houston must be friends with Janoris Jenkins… Mark, Why in the world is this front page news????????
milledgeville DAWG
April 26th, 2011
6:25 pm
DUMBASS!!
BG
April 26th, 2011
6:26 pm
Jenkins has been busted twice this year for weed and the AJC did not put that on the front page. Kinda weird!!
Billyboy
April 26th, 2011
6:26 pm
What is the big deal, most of our politicians in Washington smoked pot and look at the great decisions they are making?
Maybe he should be a 5th round draft choice now.
tennessee tom
April 26th, 2011
6:27 pm
he will be broke in 5 yrs reguardless of how much money he gets,these schools should have a plan that allows or forces them to manage part of their education funds,after their freshman yr.Insead of everything paid for them.They can’t learn anything about managing money the way things are setup now.this kid can’t seem to manage anything,probley the only chance like this he will ever get in his life,Its not the weed,thats the problem,it is the kid can’t handle his business,never had to worry about it,some one else always there to cover it up. you know he could do both and it would’t be a problem,if he was anywhere near responsible
gtphotog
April 26th, 2011
6:28 pm
It must be Willie’s fault.
SEC Fan
April 26th, 2011
6:29 pm
Bet you used pot at some point-in-time.
Brian
April 26th, 2011
6:41 pm
Richt, Johnson, Saban Meyer can all set guidelines and boundaries for players, but they can’t make a person not do drugs.
juvenal
April 26th, 2011
6:41 pm
co reality, co school of mines only co school ahead of GT on payscale.com(know Solder’s mom, hope he goes early)
Big Boy
April 26th, 2011
6:43 pm
With team leadership like that and others, one can see why the Dawgs only barked and didn’t bite.
Winnipeg, Canada
April 26th, 2011
6:43 pm
Colorado is the arm-pit of the United States and their football program stinks.
legalize it!
April 26th, 2011
6:45 pm
So what! Really, pot. this is news? who cares? his job is to tackle, sack, make plays. Who cares what he does at home. NFL is the largest abuser of opiates. So he smokes some medicine and heals his pains. Get real America. You so called “small govt, get out of my lifers” get real. legalize it, regulated it and tax it. Stop the war and save $65billion a year in your tax dollars.
King Gator
April 26th, 2011
6:45 pm
Still gonna be a 1st round pick, but wait to hit the blunt until after the drug test at the combine you big dummy! You know they’re testing and it’s all about the $$ at this point…plus the more $$ the better the weed when you’re in the NFL. Pass the funions duuuuude! Go Gators! Coach Boom is going to be a little different than Erb …Jenkins will still be a 1st/2nd round Supp Draft pick; going to make it harder for UGA to explain away the losses when MChamp’s actually booting off the knuckleheads. Go Gators!
chipontheroad birdsrus
April 26th, 2011
6:51 pm
sack a packer get a sack of whatever
Reubdogg
April 26th, 2011
6:52 pm
First of all–For the person that made the comment about weed causing brain damage and cancer- There has not been ONE persons death attributed to the use of Marijuana, and they use weed while treating cancer patients..Well, they do in states that are out of the 17th century..Georgia still debating whether to sell alcohol on Sunday, but I can go to restaurant and get sauced up. Would rather someone be stoned than drunk anyday. This comes down to poor decisions by a young man. What a bone head thing to do with so much on the line..Then again-He may not be loosing anything if lockout doesnt end.. Stop acting shocked about weed people-This isnt 1929..good grief! Society needs to grow up quite a bit…
JASon
April 26th, 2011
6:56 pm
“Report: Pot use by UGA player”
NOOOOOOOO! Up is down, left is right, the earth is spinning off its axis! How, but…who? God is dead.
juvenal
April 26th, 2011
6:58 pm
co real, 11? p=?(you probably did not take statistics in college)-denver like the atl, most folks there not from there(born in Aurora, myself)crap, they even vote blue, now……
jenkins off team
April 26th, 2011
7:03 pm
all schools have their issues. look at Ohio State. . .not looking good for Tressel
jenkins off team after 4th, yes, 4th arrest. where is the article about them???
jenkins off team
April 26th, 2011
7:05 pm
gator fans – get a clue
it took 4 arrests, 4!!!! to get him off the team
Joshua
April 26th, 2011
7:11 pm
Harmless? Obviously you’ve been smoking too much of it.
Beyond the brain damage and cancer risks, it was harmful to Houston, likely to the tune of a few million bucks (dropping out of the first round to the second or third).
That’s definitely not ‘harmless.’
Go ’smoke it up’ some more; the world needs another addle-brained pothead with no work ethic or incentive to succeed.
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First of all, there is absolutely ZERO evidence that smoking pot causes brain damage.
Secondly, marijuana has been shown to actually kill cancerous cells in a petri dish. What the the practical applications of this? We don’t know – thanks to mindless, unthinking, propaganda regurgitating automatons like yourself, the government is able to effectively control the common perception of this substance as one which has absolutely no positive benefits but rather is just some dangerous narcotic that induces mindless murderous rage and causes its users to become “addle-brained” retards. It is beyond ironic that people like you continue to spew this nonsense…so why don’t you keep your opinion to yourself. Robots are incapable of reason, after all.
Escaped from Email Purgatory
April 26th, 2011
7:11 pm
The fact that Houston didn’t care enough to ensure he was clean (i.e refrain from smoking dope for a freaking month) before the most important moment in his young life says more about potential poor judgment than just smoking weed does.
tim
April 26th, 2011
7:12 pm
Just ANOTHER football fool……
Pat
April 26th, 2011
7:13 pm
50% of the league smokes the goods. He just got caught.
Michelle
April 26th, 2011
7:13 pm
I am so tired of seeing Georgia in the news for all the wrong reasons.
You and a few million other people in this state who are fed up with Richt’s low class goons and felons embarrassing the state’s flagship university.
Houston is just one a lot of illiterate jerkoffs recruited by UGA.
BG
April 26th, 2011
7:17 pm
THE AJC LOVES TO RUN NEGATIVE NEWS ABOUT UGA! SCREW THE AJC! I HOPE EVERY UGA FAN CANCELS THEIR SUBSCRIPTION FROM THE AJC.
Traficante
April 26th, 2011
7:17 pm
Houston might make one year in the NFL before he ends up pushing a shopping cart around and looking for a warm place to sleep.
That’s what happens to worthless punks like him in the real world.
MS Bully
April 26th, 2011
7:20 pm
DUMBAs sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KG
April 26th, 2011
7:23 pm
So?
JB
April 26th, 2011
7:24 pm
Most expensive bud ever, were the bong hits really worth it?? Plenty of time to get high and rape girls after your career is over, just ask Lawrence Taylor and Tony Zendejas. John, you gotta make your money first think before you light up…
mark
April 26th, 2011
7:30 pm
Luke, you are a ignorant moron.
Tampa Gator
April 26th, 2011
7:40 pm
Stupid……
This guy, Janoris Jenkins, and Maurice Hurt. Houston….did not perform that well at the combine…and tested positive too. Can we say, “You just lost millions of dollars for a puff.” Janoris Jenkins: Now, we know why he took himself out of the draft. The puff cost you tens of millions….this year….and let’s see if you even get a shot in the NFL now…..probably will. Maurice Hurt: Improve your standing at the combine. Went from undrafted to drafted….now back to undrafted for a putt…..better hope someone gives you a FA shot now. Chris Martin: Now we may know why you left Cal for Gainesville…..traded one drug for another, I guess.
Honestly….there is so much pot smoking on campuses now…it is almost like…WHO DOESN’T.
But I just don’t get it…..risk millions of dollars of income for life for a high from weed. Stupid does what stupid is. 5-star now stands for 5-high.
bigdawg
April 26th, 2011
8:02 pm
Houston stated, “Who cares about millions of dollars? Whoa man this is good stuff! We lost how many games at Georgia last season, Coach Richt? Hey don’t hog it all but pass it back over while you are watching that Florida film.”
uga fan
April 26th, 2011
8:13 pm
What an idiot.. thought he was smarter than that..
needums
April 26th, 2011
8:36 pm
Warren Sapp got busted for smokin weed before the draft and I think it pushed him down to 4th round…………….but I think we know the rest of the story.
Birrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd Man
April 26th, 2011
8:39 pm
He literally pi#$%d away millions. So sad to be that dumb.
mcg dawg
April 26th, 2011
9:00 pm
What a shame that the 420 couldn’t have waited til after 5/1….stupid is as stupid does! Just couldn’t say NOPE to DOPE!
jsknow
April 26th, 2011
9:19 pm
What a waste!
How many more lives have to be ruined by marijuana PROHIBITION before We The People step up and legalize marijuana?
I’m all for law and order but marijuana PROHIBITION is an unnecessary unconstitutional law based on corporate greed and well documented LIES, many of which are documented in court records.
The LIES, which caused marijuana to become illegal were completely debunked decades ago, so why hasn’t the PROHIBITION ended? The only reasons I can come up with after years of marijuana policy research are: corporate greed and Government corruption.
Marijuana does not cause aggressive behavior. Marijuana does not cause dangerous driving. Marijuana does not cause cancer, brain damage or any serious health problems. Marijuana prohibition does not keep kids away from marijuana, illegal dealers don’t ask for ID. Marijuana is not a “gateway drug”, there is absolutely NOTHING about marijuana that causes people to use other drugs. Marijuana is not addictive. In fact marijuana is one of the safest substances known! Marijuana is SAFER than many foods we legally consume and give to our kids all the time!
Exactly what good is this prohibition doing and who is benefiting from it? Certainly not We The People!
No matter where you stand on the issue of legalizing marijuana everyone should read:
MARIJUANA AND HEMP THE UNTOLD STORY, Thomas J. Bouril,
WHY IS MARIJUANA ILLEGAL, Pete Guither
and the free online book:
THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES, The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis and The Conspiracy Against Marijuana.
Click the links to those titles on this webpage:
Internet Explorer web browser: http://jsknow.angelfire.com/home
All Other Browsers: http://jsknow.angelfire.com/index.html
If you think marijuana prohibition has anything to do with the imaginary, false, fabricated, alleged harms from using marijuana as a recreational drug, YOU HAVE BEEN DUPED!
DamntheButcher
April 26th, 2011
9:21 pm
Mark Bradley you idiot….. He is no longer UGA’s Houston!!!! His days are over at UGA and I don’t care if he starts a meth lab and supplies the NFL. He is not a UGA player!!!
News Flash
April 26th, 2011
9:22 pm
1. Four Auburn Players Booked, Booted For Armed Robbery
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Four-Auburn-players-booked-booted-for-armed-rob?urn=ncaaf-wp25
2. Tide football player Jeremy Elder arrested, still jailed
3. Duke football player arrested
4. Three-Tennessee-Football-Players-Arrested
5. Gophers Football Player Carter Arrested And Jailed
6. Florida Defensive end Chris Martin and linebacker Kedric Johnson were both arrested for possession of fewer than 20 grams of marijuana since Will Muschamp took over as Florida’s head football coach in December.
7. 4 Rice football players arrested in separate cases
Published April 21, 2011 | Associated Press
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Four Rice University football players are free on bond after their arrests by campus police in separate cases this week.
Online records show defensive end Cody Bauer and offensive lineman Cade Shaw were arrested Saturday and charged with felony firearms possession in a prohibited place — their on-campus apartments. Both are free on $5,000 bond.
Cornerbacks Kevin Gaddis and Phillip Gaines were arrested Monday on misdemeanor marijuana possession charges. Gaddis also is charged with misdemeanor theft. He’s free on $1,000 bond, while Gaines posted $500 bond for his release.
Online records show no attorneys for the four, and school spokesman B.J. Almond tells the Houston Chronicle that Rice is providing no other information because the university is private. Rice athletic director Rick Greenspan said he was investigating.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/04/21/4-rice-football-players-arrested-separate-cases/#ixzz1KgLWIB9S
8. Two ECU players arrested this weekend
9. Four Louisiana-Lafayette football players have been arrested Monday by the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office after police found eight small marijuana plants growing on the balcony of their apartment.
10. An Oregon State University offensive lineman has been dismissed from the team after police say they found him naked and intoxicated in a stranger’s home and had to use stun guns to take him into custody.
Here are a few stories I googled for you all to read.So there are many other stories of college football players being arrested and their coaches are not mention as the blame for their actions. The reason CMR is blamed for everything that goes on at UGA is because he is hated! If you want to say UGA has a lot of thugs, ALL COLLEGES INCLUDING TECH HAS THEM TOO!
Weed Smoking going on in Athens???
April 26th, 2011
10:00 pm
I am shocked
m
April 26th, 2011
10:01 pm
(((((((((( so typical )))))))))) Hahahahahahahahaha
Reuben Houston
April 26th, 2011
10:28 pm
Hey…I had a little left over weed from the 100 lb. pot bust I had back in 05 while I was at TECH. Thought my homie could use a little… http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522908/posts
Class of 93
April 26th, 2011
10:37 pm
That was the most expensive joint/BT he will ever smoke. Maybe he shoul have taken goldenseal.
ConservativeChristian
April 26th, 2011
10:46 pm
Jesus said to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. None of us would want our child thrown in jail with the sexual predators over a little marijuana. None of us would want our parent’s home confiscated by the police for growing a couple of plants to ease the aches and pains of growing older. It’s time to let ordinary Americans grow a little marijuana in their own back yards.
Is smoking a little marijuana really a reason to knock down somebody’s career? He could swill down 100-proof and nobody would raise an objection; why get bent out of shape over his using a much less harmful substance? Oh wait, there’s big advertising dollars from the alcohol industry…
Athens Correctional Institute
April 26th, 2011
10:53 pm
One more of Warden Richt’s losers.
Mat"T"
April 26th, 2011
10:55 pm
I guess Georgia wins the Fulmer Cup-Again…
Taddie
April 26th, 2011
10:57 pm
“Is smoking a little marijuana really a reason to knock down somebody’s career?”
Yes. Houston is a worthless punk, qualified only for working in custodial services or the like.
Mat"T"
April 26th, 2011
10:58 pm
“New Flash” You forgot the UGA player that hit a car and fled the scene because he was driving without a license. Oh, and the other players that drive without their license too.
Phil
April 26th, 2011
10:59 pm
I guess Georgia wins the Fulmer Cup-Again…
It’s now called the Fulmer/Richt Cup.
dude, you gon' eat dem skins?
April 26th, 2011
11:06 pm
One only has to look at Ricky Williams to see dopers don’t have much to worry about in the NFL. RW got kicked out of the league, quit to admittedly spend more time smoking dope, and then came back and was welcomed with open arms. He’ll drop in the draft, and should, but he’ll be fine, unless he’s turns into a habitual criminal, like the kid who was just dropkicked off of the Gator. one, two, fee, fo, fi,
gator don’ take no jive
Hairy Dawg
April 27th, 2011
1:40 am
Nothing wrong with a little weeds. He just gots to expose his talents and then he goning to make the big bucks cause he played for Dawgs. Falcons need draft Greene, Houston, and rest of SEC talents that all good Dawgs! Then Dawgs show why talents come play for them in goning to NFL.
TWAYNE
April 27th, 2011
6:30 am
A true Georgia player maybe he get some his friends from Columbus to visit the school again and have grand old wild party SMOKING AND STEALING
Sid
April 27th, 2011
7:10 am
Florida Guy
April 26th, 2011
3:40 pm
Stupid is as stupid does. Millions on the table and he risks it all for a few hits. Wow, this level of stupid is epic
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…………and that’s all I have to say about that!
willydoit?
April 27th, 2011
7:26 am
Yaaaaaaayyy!! I play football!!! Yaaaaaaayyy!!
Come on folks…he’s a big dumb jock!
Did you really expect him to be any smarter than this?
Dumbo
April 27th, 2011
7:33 am
Houston….we have a problem here! Houston do the letters DA mean anything to you?
Escaped from Email Purgatory
April 27th, 2011
7:43 am
Those of you bemoaning UGA’s “low class goons and felons” need to make up your mind. Do you want a football program that’s a legitimate contender in the SEC or not?
UGA can’t compete with Bama, Auburn, LSU, Tennessee and Florida if we recruit like Vanderbilt. If you want to be a big time football program, you can’t ignore the kids from somewhat shaky backgrounds.
I guess it would be really neat if your team was composed of 100 Tim Tebows, but that ain’t gonna happen.
And for the most part, the 18-21 year olds many who post to UGA football blogs label en masse as “thugs” as soon as one of them so much as gets a parking ticket, are not bad kids.
Your little darlings smoke reefer, shoplift and drive drunk too. Bottom line is, they have the luxury of conducting their lives outside of the glare of publicity in the most football-mad region of the country. So their missteps are dealt with inside your family, not as the subject of the latest AJC blogs.
Houston screwed up. Who’s hurt by it besides he and his family? Who did he kill?
BRW
April 27th, 2011
7:55 am
Harry, We would not want your kid at Tech, so, no worries…
Mr. Nice
April 27th, 2011
8:12 am
When, oh when will this country wake up and stop the propaganda and stigmatization of casual marijuana use? It really is amazing that in the 21st century still people swallow and repeat the same old lies that our government has been shoveling since the 1930s. And shame on you Mark Bradley for being right up there with the worst of them: “Drafting Justin Houston just got riskier.” Uhm, like how? You got some empirical data to back that up? No, of course you don’t because it doesn’t exist. There has been an uncountable number of “clean” draft picks that turned out to be total duds, and many others who turned out to be self-absorbed, violent thugs. But no, it’s smoking a joint that makes Houston “risky.” Whatever!
Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!
April 27th, 2011
8:46 am
Oh no!!!!!!!!!!!! The Pot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! Please file under Who Cares. This is no more a drug than alcohol or cigarettes.
Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!
April 27th, 2011
8:56 am
Check out all the trolls on here.
“Warren Sapp dropped to the 4th round after failing a marijuana test?” No, troll, he dropped to around 17th in the 1st round. Percy Harvin had the same thing happen. The owners do not care about marijuana, and neither should you.
Anyone remember Ryan Leaf and his Pills? What about Erik Ainge and his heroin, and pills, and alcohol?
Rayburn Golf
April 27th, 2011
9:07 am
He is a good person. A little herb does not make him a criminal.
He was actually a leader at UGA.
Cardinal Sin
April 27th, 2011
9:07 am
Stop recruiting these FREAKIN HOOD RATS!!!! Just like FL with J. Jenkins, a LOSER from the word GO! Give some White kids a chance and see if they make these types of mistakes!!! My guess would be NO!
Done!
crossdawg
April 27th, 2011
9:08 am
Another thug. Where does CMR find em?
Whisky Breath
April 27th, 2011
9:21 am
I think he just picked up the habit lately. He wouldn’t have done it under “hard ass” CMR.
Sorry, I can’t help from laughing.
Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!
April 27th, 2011
9:51 am
Cardinal Sin
You would be the first person on here complaining about all the losses if coaches quit recruiting “thugs.” You can’t have it both ways. And who gives a crap about a FORMER player smoking weed? I would guess at least 50% of NFL players are smoking right now! They sure as hell aren’t getting tested for it.
Alcohol is the worst drug of them all if you want to know the truth. Now that is a gateway drug!
It is what it is
April 27th, 2011
9:53 am
Maybe he bought it from Rueben Houston?
Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!
April 27th, 2011
9:53 am
Oh, and he is still a 1st round pick tomorrow. Ballard is the one that has his stock drop.
Ricardo Cabeza
April 27th, 2011
10:06 am
He and Janrois Jenkins will make wonderful additions to the NFL!
Mark Jane
April 27th, 2011
10:34 am
LOL, Allen, you must be on crack or something bro. I smoke, got a good job, and guarantee I work harder than you will in any given week. Accounting none the less. So go blow it out your ***, moron.
And for the rest of the haters from other teams, how bout Janoris getting the boot for smoking a little. Thought that was dumb too, but that was like his tenth warning.
observer
April 27th, 2011
10:37 am
It won’t affect his draft status much…it reflects more on his stupidity and lack of judgment than on his use of an illegal substance. What an idiot! Soon to be rich idiot, but there are things more important than money. But he’s a college football player, so what’s new? Maybe he can get a “weed allowance” in his contract.
aprilglaspie
April 27th, 2011
10:40 am
Most drug testing labs employed by sports organizations are incompetent, sloppy and unable to back their findings with any sort of authority. False positives are more common with many labs than accurate readings. If I were Houston’s agent, I’d attack the lab. Anyway, marijuana clearly neither enhances nor affects adversely any athletic performance. This is Roger Goodell and the NFL invading player’s privacy rights, admittedly, with participation, and injecting themselves into what is, where pot is concerned, a social and political issue.
The glee that bubbles just underneath the surface at AJC when it publishes a stupid story like this is both obvious and obscene. Did Houston ever fail to perform at gametime? How ’bout the story of Ryan Mallett at the bowl game passed out with companions at the bowl game?
danny
April 27th, 2011
10:43 am
You can’t cure ……..
CobbHawk
April 27th, 2011
10:45 am
Another victim of the moronic War on Drugs. Pot should be legalized. All you knuckleheads who think it causes brain damage and cancer have no idea what you’re talking about. No medical studies have shown it to be any more harmful than alcohol; in fact, it is very much less harmful than alcohol in every way, and yet it is classified as a Class 1 drug by the federal government. Any review of the history of the prohibition of marijuana will quickly reveal to anyone willing to look beyond the government propaganda: the only reason it is illegal was due to racism against the Mexican immigrants who began to come to America in greater numbers in the early 20th century, and who used it in their home country in large numbers. It was an easy excuse for law enforcement to harass, arrest, and deport these immigrants. Of course, its later use in black communities and popularization by black jazz musicians only made it that much easier to use as an excuse to harass black citizens as well. The racism continues to this day. White people who get busted for pot suffer much less from the judicial system than blacks or Hispanics – of course this is mostly due to the fact that white people in general can afford better lawyers who plead down marijuana convictions or get them tossed or expunged.
It has no effect on how an individual will perform their job (unless of course someone is actually using it on the job – but then that is also the case with the completely legal drug alcohol). I’ve known doctors and lawyers and any number of other professionals in various fields who partake of marijuana recreationally, and they pay their bills, taxes, raise families, go to church, and are generally upstanding citizens.
It is the greatest folly that this kid, who is an exceptional athlete, should be so terribly penalized for something so minor and insignificant as to be on the wrong side of the stupidest, most ignorant, most wasteful, and most ineffective prohibition movement the world has ever seen.
Legalize it, and lets use the billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars the government confiscates from you and me to buy police departments better weapons than the US Infantry uses (and yet never seems to stem the flow of illegal drugs, nor make any of us any safer), and put that back into the economy.
Mel
April 27th, 2011
10:53 am
I’d say the amount of alcohol some of these players consume is far more dangerous and destructive than a little bit of pot.
milcon2
April 27th, 2011
11:16 am
Saw a prominent mock draft where my Lions picked Houston up in the 4th round. Sound good to me at 4. By the way all you who say big deal, he was only smoking pot. You are morons. He was pissing away millions of dollars that he will likely never make up and it will then make it more difficult for him to support his likely illegitimate kids, and defending his domestic abuse cases. He is a moron NFL level athlete and these morons repeatedly do these kinds of stupid things. Wake up idiots.
Matt
April 27th, 2011
11:21 am
I would guess 2/3 of the league smokes pot. Timing is the bigger issue. HOw can you be that stupid knowing that a drug test is coming??
JackP
April 27th, 2011
11:23 am
Stupid is what stupid does.
Matt
April 27th, 2011
11:27 am
CobbHawk- is it rich white folk who get off or just rich people in general????? I think Snoop Dogg (and any other rich black person) has gotten off just as much as the next rich white guy. Rules don’t see color of skin when money is involved.
SCJacket
April 27th, 2011
11:30 am
And the parade of high character student atheletes from UGA just continues to make the faithful proud. I guess he was surprised there would be a grug test at the combine? I hope you Dawg lovers are proud of yet another fine moment in the media with your program.
Dawgdreamer
April 27th, 2011
12:48 pm
Just a reason to convince him the team that drafts him are intitiled to pay him less. I doubt this guy is going the Quincy Carter route. It does however give you some insight into his character. What a bonehead move. For Peat’s sake if you are going to smoke, make sure you refrain from doing it in enough time that you can flush your system before the combine. Who manages these guys? His agent/handler should be fired. It just goes to show you that everyone involved in the process is looking to profit and exploit the athelete (including the athlete). In the end it comes down to personal accountability. I hope that high was worth 10 million dollars! Get real and get high on life man. I can’t imagine why this guy thinks he needs to smoke weed to get high. With all the experiences that he has lived and will get to live. Who couldn’t get high on that? Coming out early doesn’t look like such a great decision now, does it? Go Dawgs!
For the Falcons, a Round 1 defensive end only makes sense | Mark Bradley
April 27th, 2011
1:40 pm
[...] if Adrian Clayborn, the Iowa defensive end, is there when they pick. (In light of revelations that Justin Houston, the Georgia linebacker, tested positive for marijuana, it would be a surprise if they chose him.) As much as Dimitroff might try to drive down [...]
It Ain't Rocket Science
April 27th, 2011
2:59 pm
Every member of the SEC is required to test the players for Drugs. I suspect that every member of the SEC has at least one person smoking the weed. The players don’t get tested weekly, or even monthly for the most part, so it is easy enough to avoid a postive result. Coaches try their best to curb it, but let’s face it, they can’t be around their players 24/7. It is called responsibility and some of these players have either not been taught it, or feel they are above the law because they are an athelete. To blame CMR for Houston’s lack of judgement is just plain stupid. A coach likme CMR, who truely cares for his kids and tries to run a clean program, is just as susceptible to having a kid do something stupid as any other coach. He is not a member of the UGA football program any longer, and if you want to stretch your beliefs just a little, who is to say, this was not the first time he ever tried it, and he didn’t think it took 30 days to clear his system. This is just as plausable as blaming CMR for the actions of a former player.
Inspirational DVDs .com
April 27th, 2011
3:00 pm
[...] Report: UGA’s Justin Houston tested positive for marijuana – Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)Citing NFL sources, FoxSports is reporting that Georgia linebacker Justin Houston tested positive for marijuana at the combine in February. Given that the draft is two days away, such news could have broken at no worse time — for Houston, if not for the [...]
Flatwoods Dawg
April 27th, 2011
3:14 pm
DUDES!!!! Chill out and smoke a tater while listening to some classic Cheech and Chong. That’s old school.
Hilton Head Island
April 27th, 2011
3:15 pm
Go Jackets !
jsknow
April 27th, 2011
7:56 pm
So many people are so quick to call others stupid for not bowing to the tyranny of marijuana prohibition. Would you be happier living under a communist dictatorship? Oh, wait a minute, the USA has more people in jail than any other Nation of planet earth, so much for that, “Land of the FREE, Home of the BRAVE” fable!
I’ll probably catch a lot of flack from the brainwashed know nothings that are far to brain dead to take a stand against anything uncle SHAM / SCAM doesn’t give them permission to reject but just FYI, 15 States and Washington DC have bucked the Feds and now allow medical use of marijuana. That’s because it’s proven SAFE and EFFECTIVE at treating a wide variety of ailments both severe and mild. Marijuana has also been shown to PREVENT many ailments.
How any rational freedom loving American can be a sheep to marijuana propaganda LIES and TYRANNY is beyond me!
Ok the kid broke an unjust law, he broke it more than once, maybe he had a good reason! Maybe this God given plant helps him in some way. The point is, if WE THE PEOPLE continue to accept tyranny and unjust laws, even when there is vastly overwhelming PROOF that there is NOT EVEN ONE just reason for this unjust law to exist, this same unnecessary, unconstitutional, wasteful, harm is going to continue to ruin the lives of many more otherwise law abiding citizens, which are doing NO harm to society, or even their self!
Marijuana certainly is not going away and for whatever reason, millions of people find something they like, need or some benefit from this plant. It has NEVER been proven to cause ANY serious harm whatsoever!
If you support this tyranny, please tell me why! Better yet, do some research and see if you still support this discrimination against allegedly free people after you learn how and why marijuana became illegal and why it has remained illegal. Once you know the truth, if you’re a freedom loving red blooded American, I bet you’ll have a hard time supporting marijuana prohibition and the astronomical harms it causes.
Please, someone, ANYONE, tell me by what virtue of righteousness, marijuana prohibition should be allowed to continue!
Oh, and please don’t say because “it’s illegal”, that’s such a sheepish response! Everything Adolf Hitler did was legal and everything MLK did was illegal. Legal doesn’t always mean right and illegal doesn’t always mean wrong, now does it?
jsknow
April 27th, 2011
8:11 pm
HERE HERE, CobbHawk, very well said!
Report: Houston failed drug test at combine
April 28th, 2011
2:17 pm
[...] weed story Report: UGA's Justin Houston tested positive for marijuana | Mark Bradley At least it was after he was gone from UGA. These guys sho is dumb Sorry if this is old news [...]