Should We Ban Recreational Drugs?

Cocky? Yes. But did she deserve the death penalty? Let me be clear to start with that I am not advocating that athletes or anyone else indulge in cannabis, cocaine, or any other recreational drug. The health hazards of most are well-known and severe. I just think that banning athletes from participating in their sports or fining them for using recreational drugs is unreasonable and unfair. (This is just my opinion, of course, and I don't expect what I say here to cause any rule changes, but it will, hopefully, provide food for thought.) An example of severe punishment was banning Martina Hingis, a five-time Slam winner, for two years for testing positive for cocaine at Wimbledon in 2007 and basically ending her career. They gave her the tennis death penalty. Not a Fan I have never been a Hingis fan because she was so cocky when she was winning Slams, making statements to the effect that players like Steffi Graf were old and over the hill and that she and the other young, pretty new players were taking over. (One of my fondest memories is of the 1999 French Open final when "old" and "over the hill" Steffi Graf,...