SMOKESCREEN

Drug use in the NFL has been a hot topic lately, fueled by the
retirement of Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams and the
release of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Quincy Carter.

Dan LeBatard of the Miami Herald says the public doesn't know the true
story about drugs and pro football.

"Marijuana use is a lot more prevalent in football than anyone knows,"
LeBatard wrote. "The NFL's testing policy is a laughable scam meant to
give the illusion of policing to a Puritanical public that wishes to
believe what it's seeing on Sundays is pure. Nate Newton spent 14
years in the league without us hearing a word about possible marijuana
use. You think his first dalliance with it was in retirement, when
police found 213 pounds of it in his van?"