Do Skateboarders use Drugs?
The current (August 19') issue of Thrasher features an article titled "Over It." It's a bunch of interviews of legendary pro skateboarders that went from huge drug users to total sobriety. They tell the story of how and why that transition happened. As I was looking at the article, a young man (about 22) told me that skateboarding is a sport with a lot of drug use. I immediately tried to explain to him that there is nothing inherently evil about a piece of plywood with four wheels on the bottom. But I didn't say exactly that. Since he had been a football player in high school, I asked him if any of the kids on his team used drugs. He told me that they did. So I asked him whether he that causes him to think that football is a sport for drug users. Since he makes that immediate conclusion when he finds out that a skateboarder uses drugs, then why not draw the same conclusion in football? I also asked him about weightlifting, since it...