Sports Illustrated Exclusive: College Students Smoke Pot

This article focuses on the "shocking" trend that college students participate in the use of recreational marijuana before their games. As the article from Sports Illustrated has surfaced, many different opinions have arisen on how to deal with the issue. However, Tim Murphy who has written this article, analyzes the claims made by Sports Illustrated and puts it into a perspective which makes the issue seem less severe. Players from the time when the Oklahoma State football team made itself a force to be reckoned with within the football collegiate community have since them come forth and admitted to the vast marijuana use that occurred before games. Running back Hershel Sims claims that if the drug use had been more monitored, there would have "lost 15-20 people who actually played." Although drug use is forbidden, Murphy brings forth the fact that they use of marijuana within the players systems did not have any effect on their playing ability, therefore it does not seems like a pressing issue to deal with.