News Bevon Lewis Suspended For Smoking Herb

[TheNinja]

You cant have weed in your system IN competition. Meaning this dude lit up a day before he was tested or hours before he was tested.

People completely miss the point when it comes to suspensions for weed.

1. The levels of THC have been bumped up ridiculously high. You need to have smoke very close up to the fight in order to actually pop during an in competition test.
2. I don't think it's a performance enhancer but it could be for some people who would feel more relaxed or in the zone or feel less anxiety. Can't allow this unless you open it up to other drugs.
3. These guys KNOW they are getting tested.......it's not a pop quiz they didn't about. How hard is it, really, to quit smoking a month before your fight? I don't care if you don't agree with the rules but the fact of the matter is you know the rules and broke them.

I'm a pro-MJ supporter and think it should be 100% legal throughout the nation. BUT I feel zero sympathy towards these athletes who get busted. If you don't like the rules, work on changing the rules, you can't just break the rules you don't like then complain about it.


TLDR: I think testing for pot is dumb as crap, BUT he knew the rules (which are very lax) and broke them. No sympathy from me.

 

[RedFoxNdisBihhh]

why are you tagging me you goof

cause nobody likes you and you are on "your way out"


thought id say hi while i had the chance .. and i must agree .. you def are

 

[SCTwins]

If you just keep smoking, you can still fight twice a year every 6 months.

 

[chance mccoy]

I went to a store yesterday and bought 5 grams of hash , the world is a strange place

 

[pick999]

They racist

 

[weaselkenievil]

That’s bullshit. Free Bevon!

 

[Fraz]

All pot smoking degenerates should be rounded up and forced to toil in the underground sugar caves.

 

[Domitian]

did weed fuck your girlfriend or what? who the fuck cares?

Yeah that's how I feel about your marijuana stance on the issue.

 

[2sk]

Begone Lewis

 

[KillerIsBack V2]

We can expect mma's talent pool to drop down at the highest level cause of USADA soon. Weed has been getting legalized all over the world.

 

[Kvothe_the_kingkiller]

Does that mean he was high during his last match?

"The test was conducted the same date as Lewis’ most recent UFC fight..."

But that doesn't mean shit, since it stays in your system for up to a month. Nick Diaz famously argued that there is a difference between active and inactive metabolites, and the argument lost.

CONCLUSION: There's no evidence he was and compelling evidence he wasn't (e.g. if there were any indication he was high just before the fight, they would have stopped it then.). So probably not. He probably got high a week or three earlier. And if there were any indication he was high just before the fight, they would have stopped it then.

It's a shitty irony that the most innocuous drug of them all stays in your system the longest....

 

[UFCFantasyMVP]

did tylenol fuck your girlfriend or what? who the fuck cares?

JUST LIKE YOU DID WITH ME...You got placed into a corner that you didn't know how to bark back from. So instead of... well continue to argue on what YOU initiated... you just poke insults and make fun of people, which technically means that you broke. For this purpose, I'LL say I care. The concept is that weed's no worse than Tylenol. Or alcohol. Or gambling. Or caffeine. It's just another methodology of similar stuff. It's not for us to hate on people that do things different than you. Should Guida cut his hair? I bet you say yes, but I say no. You're not any more right than I am. But when you pick on people, it says more about you than all of your victims combined.

 

[Vulcan]

how dare the mods remove dope from the title

 

[wwkirk]

They re-signed him again then presumably? What was the reasoning behind that?

He was released in November. The penalty pertains to his last fight when he was still in the UFC.

I don't know anything about a pre-November release or a resigning.

 

[burningspear]

Fuck it getting baked is better than getting exploited.

 

[Jose Beehive]

He was released in November. The penalty pertains to his last fight when he was still in the UFC.

I don't know anything about a pre-November release or a resigning.

Ah thanks,
So that means he's suspended from fighting for any US Professional promotion now then?

 

[Luvhawky]

"The test was conducted the same date as Lewis’ most recent UFC fight..."

But that doesn't mean shit, since it stays in your system for up to a month. Nick Diaz famously argued that there is a difference between active and inactive metabolites, and the argument lost.

CONCLUSION: There's no evidence he was and compelling evidence he wasn't (e.g. if there were any indication he was high just before the fight, they would have stopped it then.). So probably not. He probably got high a week or three earlier. And if there were any indication he was high just before the fight, they would have stopped it then.

It's a shitty irony that the most innocuous drug of them all stays in your system the longest....

Thanks, appreciate the take.

As for the irony, it's almost an indication of how your body views it. The other drugs are serious poisons, so your body does what it can to eliminate them, even if that process makes you more high. Weed, it doesn't really care and view it as that bad...

FYI, my above take has zero scientific basis and is just my spitballing.

 

[RiskiestCookie]

Just change the damn rule. So stupid

 

[Kvothe_the_kingkiller]

Thanks, appreciate the take.

As for the irony, it's almost an indication of how your body views it. The other drugs are serious poisons, so your body does what it can to eliminate them, even if that process makes you more high. Weed, it doesn't really care and view it as that bad...

FYI, my above take has zero scientific basis and is just my spitballing.

I used to know why. But my memory is a bit shot.

Something something fat soluble something.

 

[GaryEric]

Typical drug addicts justifying their problem

Typical nerd up on his nerdhorse