Georgia Football should seek new answer for Marijuana policy

It’s not the 1980’s anymore:

To put some context into the arrests this year, I recommend reading reports from each of them Riley Ridley was the first player arrested this year. Elijah Holyfield was the second and Natrez Patrick was the most recent.

Reading these articles, it’s pretty clear that these are not exactly big-time drug busts. These are kids, all aged 19 or 20 who were carrying a small amount of something that is legal in some places for personal consumption.

Whether people want to accept it or not, marijuana is really not hard to come by for members of their generation. Anyone from that generation who was being honest would admit that they can just as easily get marijuana as they can alcohol. Every month, it’s being legalized in some places and decriminalized in others and everyone knows ‘a guy’.

You have to go back to the 1980’s for the last time stricter marijuana laws were passed in this country. Whether you personally agree with it or not, society is becoming increasingly more tolerant of this particular drug and it is becoming easier and easier for people to purchase.

The UGA administration doesn’t need to like it and it certainly should educate students about the dangers just like they do alcohol. But it needs to accept that society is different now than it was and the Athens campus is not some bubble that is immune to these changes.