Anyone who wants to smoke ought to smoke at home. Why drive around in Queens in a high priced car with your headlights off and weed pouring out the windows? That's just plain STUPID.
Other than that I'd say if he wants to get lit up and have it affect his work that's his choice - EXCEPT - we watch these Knicks and right now these Knicks suck. Chandlers play has been a part of that. The fact that half the time he plays real REAL dumb at times: Stepping out of bounds frequently. Bad passes. Chucking 3's when he can and should drive to the rim --- and driving to the rim into traffic when he had a wide open 3 to take. Stuff like that makes you shake your head.
Then you start to think, well wait a minute, is that lack of mental focus a part of his drug problem? I don't want to hear the pot heads tell me weed doesn't hurt your mind because as a person who smoked it for a good 10 years relentlessly it turns you into a mental midget. There is no debating this. You also don't "clear up" a day afterwards you are still one dumb fool. Takes quite some time after quitting for good to get your real senses and intelligence back.
So this is where I have the second problem with athletes doing drugs: You're paid millions to play a game. You are obligated to be in top physical and mental shape. Doing drugs and twittering about how life sucks is going to draw the ire of fans who watch, and pay to watch, you play your best.
If you're not playing your best (clearly the case with Chandler more frequently than should be) and you are known to be absuing drugs (clearly is, don't give me this he just smoked for the first time because of surgery BS), and you talk like you're depressed and unhappy (a clear side effect of drugs on many many people) - THEN YOURE GOING TO BE CALLED OUT FOR IT.
Don't quite see why anyone would defend him in this context. Weed like any other drug is NOT harmless. TO say otherwise is either ignorance or an intent to rationalize your own abuse of substances as being okay.
