Both bolded items absolutely not true.
Guillard was popped for Cocaine post-fight. I can't imagine he did a bump before getting into the cage, but it's possible. Unless your argument is that Jon Jones' physical makeup allows his body to remove drug-traces over a 25 minute period, you're grossly exaggerating. He could probably get away with a line the morning before Fight-Day - but I can't imagine that being beneficial for the fight.
A month and a half after a puff? Ridiculous. Unless the person we're referring to literally smokes every day prior to this single puff a month and a half before the fight, he's not testing positive. There's no reason to pad the numbers. Light users can rid it from their system in a few weeks. It's the heavy smokers who have month-out positives.
One of my favorite musicians is Elliott Smith. I have zero interest in Heroin even though he wrote wonderful music with its assistance.
The "think of the kids!" argument is silly. It's just an excuse for poor parenting. "Little Bobby smoked weed, it must have been because of that Nick Diaz!", is an equally ridiculous notion.
That's not the point you made. You said a business controls a sport. They do not. They're simply the largest of the organizations with more eyes on them. This seems like it's more and more an issue with the "1%". The little guys are punished unjustly, and the big guys aren't punished enough. Except that's not what's happening here.
The cocaine in Jones' system is absolutely an IC/OOC issue. There's nothing else about it. He wasn't supposed to be tested for it, the AC messed up, admitted they messed up, and exposed Jones' private life to the world - prompting shoop threads and fantastical stories of Jones doing lines before walking into the cage.
The athlete was not found to have a coke addiction. The athlete was found to have coke in his system - which alone is not a violation of anything when it's out of competition. The internet took it upon themselves to give Jones a coke addiction. Seriously, we've all seen coke-heads - have you known any who had their lives together enough to be able to not only keep it secret and pass drug tests, but to train for and maintain a championship for beating guys up? He's in Rehab for PR. Just like Tiger was. Are we all going to pretend that Tiger actually had an addiction? Are we going to pretend that now Tiger has no interest in his neighbor's poon?
Refusal to take the test is an automatic failure, in every drug testing protocol ever. They didn't just make up the infraction. The manner in which Wandy conducted himself leading up to, and after he ran are what resulted in him being banned for life.
Seriously, you have bigger issues here.
In your desperation, you try to create a world where Cocaine addiction is nothing.
You fail to realize that, despite all your crap about IC/OOC, no one snorts once and is done with it.
There are enough comments from other fighters to think this is not the first, it is actually going on for years.
The only reason he was not caught, is because they don't test it OOC. And a little mistake caught him red handed.
Look any way you want. Coke is illegal.
Last I checked, no one loans coke. So he had to buy it. That is a crime within itself.
And last I checked, committing a crime is punishable by the Rules of Conduct Zuffa made their employees sign. So he absolutely can (and should) be punished for it.
And it matters little if it is Jon from the UFC or a scrub from Bellator.
You are the one trying to claim no one else would punish their fighters, like this should somehow make the issue a more acceptable one. That's besides the fact you have no prior incident to base your claim on.
I, on the other hand, can give you many cases where the AC and/or Zuffa punished fighters.
And while you can say "there are no rules against Coke", I can tell you with 100000% certainty that it is within their powers to create a new rule and maintain consistency. Because there are new drugs popping up all the time, and it is obvious they have to accommodate them.
What is dumb is to say "well, if there are no punishment, let us just raise our hands and try hard to imagine it never happened!"
