Of course it's up for debate. How do you think laws are made? By the rich conservative (mostly white male) elites. Every law in existence is a social construct made by humans for humans. Calling it a law doesn't make it right. We should learn from history. Also, it is either fully legalized and medicinally realized in about half the country give or take. That is just even more ridiculous and shows just how broken and arbitrary our justice system is.
TrackCoach wrote:
[quote]Smh at society wrote:
So ridiculous that someone can be arrested for weed in 2018. What a joke
The law is not up for debate, you don't have to agree with it, you have to abide by it. If this was a Black intercity kid, he would be called a distributor as-in running a criminal enterprise and his prison sentence would be similar to committing rape. For a White suburban kid, college student, with a good lawyer, 1st-time offender, best case scenario, he is looking at about 5 years of prison time. [/quote)
And you don't see a problem with that? But let's just blindly follow the law because it is the law an not question it. Smh so much wrong with this post, the law, and society in general.
Fjsjajdjdjsjdjd wrote:
totally not wrote
LOL... seriously?? People who commit suicide do so for a wide variety of reasons, most of which have to do with untreated depression. What possible evidence do you have that pot was a factor in their suicides?? How do you know pot didn't lower their stress and depression to a point that delayed their suicides?
Psychosis from smoking weed? Again, do you have access to their clinical diagnosis that states pot was the causal effect? Your post is a classic example of the fallacy of the small sample set... "Gee, I've seen a few people who had problems I THINK were caused by pot (with no actual evidence whatsoever) therefor it must be bad!"
I know doctors, scientists, software engineers, civil engineers, incredibly successful professionals from all walks of life, fit athletes as well) who smoke pot recreationally and have wonderful, rich, great lives.
Your post is just silly.
In fairness, there is evidence to suggest that pot can be associated with psychosis in young minds that are predisposed to psychotic illness.
There is also evidence to suggest that it serves as potent analgesic and appetite stimulant for cancer patients undergoing palliation.
Anecdotally, I know doctors (myself included), lawyers, engineers, successful fathers, and athletes who smoke from time to time for recreation.
I also know people who smoke habitually (3 or more times per day) and absolutely suffer from amotivation and memory issues (whether it's the chicken or the egg, who knows).
Bottom line, it is neither as bad as some people make it out to be and neither is it the panacea that others label it as.
Pot is a recreational drug that is certainly no worse than alcohol and should absolutely be legal in our society. Too much money is spent investigating and processing people for weed offenses. Too many otherwise productive individuals have options taken away from them because of a black mark on their record.
It's unfortunate that this talented young man may have options taken away from him in the future for such a minor offense. He likely won't spend much time in jail but this very well could hamper his running career and future professional life.
With that being said, the law is what the law is. Even though it should (and hopefully will) change, don't order three pounds of pot through the mail to a state where it's not legal. That's just dumb.
A reasonable post.
An important note is I simply asked him if he had access to a clinical diagnosis; I do understand that in a relatively very small number of cases it is possible for pot to trigger a psychotic EPISODE in some who might be predisposed to it, which is far different from triggering the onset of something much more serious such as schizophrenia for example. I was pointing out the issue with the poster linking psychosis/psychotic episode to pot use merely as a layperson's observation with no clinical proof whatsoever.
I'm glad you added 'chicken or the egg, who knows'; certainly when it comes to 'amotivation' I'd say a lot of those folks were already well on their way there prior to getting into serious pot use.
FWIW, I don't claim weed to be a panacea for anything, certainly nowhere in my post.
Finally, we have here a young man who has put himself at risk of a potentially horribly unjust and draconian punishment; our stupid culture continues to mete out ridiculously slight punishments for people with multiple drunk driving offenses, and here in Minnesota we just saw a woman get away with probation for killing someone while driving drunk, yet this kid could potentially be looking at a serious punishment if it doesn't fall his way. We are really and truly stupid here. That said, there may be a universe someplace where it's ok to utilize the mail for shipping 3.5 pounds of weed, but it's not here in 2018 Amurrica. Dumb move; I hope he gets the best lawyer money can buy.
I’m very conservative but that’s absurd for anyone to doing time for weed. Buying, selling, anything. It’s freaking legal in Colorado. Should be legal everywhere.
How on earth can a guy do hard time in one state for doing something that is legal in another state?
Come on voters!
Well, it's not legal anywhere in the U.S. to sell without a license, the kid is also under 21 which is another stipulation of smoking weed, let alone dealing it.
PRs for the boy wrote:
Jared Borowsky
Personal Records:
800m - 1:58.57
1600m - 4:18.18
1 Mile - 4:21.05
3000m (in) - 8:29.31
3200m - 9:07.47
3 Mile (xc) - 14:38.70
5K (xc) - 15:12.00
8K (xc) - 23:37.90
Either his PRs aren't update or whomever measured that "8k" course was high as a kite.
Jefe in the CO wrote:
PRs for the boy wrote:
Jared Borowsky
Personal Records:
800m - 1:58.57
1600m - 4:18.18
1 Mile - 4:21.05
3000m (in) - 8:29.31
3200m - 9:07.47
3 Mile (xc) - 14:38.70
5K (xc) - 15:12.00
8K (xc) - 23:37.90
Either his PRs aren't update or whomever measured that "8k" course was high as a kite.
Well yeah, why do people still think times matter in cross country?
Jefe in the CO wrote:
PRs for the boy wrote:
Jared Borowsky
Personal Records:
800m - 1:58.57
1600m - 4:18.18
1 Mile - 4:21.05
3000m (in) - 8:29.31
3200m - 9:07.47
3 Mile (xc) - 14:38.70
5K (xc) - 15:12.00
8K (xc) - 23:37.90
Either his PRs aren't update or whomever measured that "8k" course was high as a kite.
I think the D3 regional this year was super fast, so maybe that's where the time was from. But note that he was a redshirt freshman so the other times are high school. I also ran D3 in that region and there were guys who ran 4:40/10:00 in high school who went on to sub 24 8K, and 8 3K by the time they were in college. Plus he has had great coaching with Wetmore and Carius for the past two years.
Wonder if the arch-conservatives here will want to invade Colorado with troops and militia to take away marijuana laws. Wouldn't put it past them.
El Jimador in Lakewood wrote:
Jefe in the CO wrote:
Either his PRs aren't update or whomever measured that "8k" course was high as a kite.
I think the D3 regional this year was super fast, so maybe that's where the time was from. But note that he was a redshirt freshman so the other times are high school. I also ran D3 in that region and there were guys who ran 4:40/10:00 in high school who went on to sub 24 8K, and 8 3K by the time they were in college. Plus he has had great coaching with Wetmore and Carius for the past two years.
Wonder if the arch-conservatives here will want to invade Colorado with troops and militia to take away marijuana laws. Wouldn't put it past them.
If he was getting great coaching from Wetmore, he would have stayed in Boulder.
Real question is who coughed up the 25K for his bail? If he's a trust fund baby and his parents paid it, why the hell is he selling weed in the first place? I'd love to hear it be his drug connections and him making a mad dash across the border, escape, and live his life out dealing and smoking in peace. Hopefully ol' Al Carius and the Cardinals don't give enough craps to bail him out. That would be disappointing for such a well established and respected program. And you can't rule out Derek Rubis either, YUGE D3 track&xc fan.
BigMoney BigCat wrote:
Real question is who coughed up the 25K for his bail? If he's a trust fund baby and his parents paid it, why the hell is he selling weed in the first place? I'd love to hear it be his drug connections and him making a mad dash across the border, escape, and live his life out dealing and smoking in peace. Hopefully ol' Al Carius and the Cardinals don't give enough craps to bail him out. That would be disappointing for such a well established and respected program. And you can't rule out Derek Rubis either, YUGE D3 track&xc fan.
Bond is paid with 10% of bail, dummy. 2500 is pocket change to Buffalo Grove suburbanites, you get the money back too, genius.
That image is one of his previous FB cover photos... Discuss.
Pywaodmer wrote:
El Jimador in Lakewood wrote:
I think the D3 regional this year was super fast, so maybe that's where the time was from. But note that he was a redshirt freshman so the other times are high school. I also ran D3 in that region and there were guys who ran 4:40/10:00 in high school who went on to sub 24 8K, and 8 3K by the time they were in college. Plus he has had great coaching with Wetmore and Carius for the past two years.
Wonder if the arch-conservatives here will want to invade Colorado with troops and militia to take away marijuana laws. Wouldn't put it past them.
If he was getting great coaching from Wetmore, he would have stayed in Boulder.
You seem kind of like a twit, but okay. He likely benefited from a year of training with the CU Buffs as a walk on, and demonstrated remarkable improvement in the two years from high school XC to his redshirt freshman year at North Central where he ran to a 2nd place finish at D3 nationals. In the article outlining his rise to success at North Central he mentioned that he was homesick.
joedirt wrote:
Why do you think gangs fight? Why do you think Cartels in Mexico behead people? It is for control of black markets. If he had 3.3 pounds, he probably bought it from organized crime.
You truly are an idiot beyond belief if you believe that bullshit about weed. In other words, you're perfect for this place.
jpoaon wrote:
Well, it's not legal anywhere in the U.S. to sell without a license, the kid is also under 21 which is another stipulation of smoking weed, let alone dealing it.
Jaywalking is also illegal, so is going 56 in a 55.
As someone who ran for Stevenson a few years before Jared I can only imagine the immense disappointment being felt by the coaches at the High School. Coach Schauble in particular put his heart and soul into Jared and this is how he was repaid. No one was a bigger supporter of Jared than Coach Schauble and Coach's heart must have been in knots when he heard the news. Jared was an immense talent who ran 4:21 in the 1600 and a 1:56 800 Meter leg on the 4x800 as a Freshman in High School. All the coaches on the team recognized his potential the second he stepped foot onto the track at Stevenson. A lot of fellow students on the team looked up to Jared as well and continued to follow him closely into his collegiate running. Point is that Jared was someone incredibly special to the team and school and he tore it down by being a complete idiot. We'll see what ends up coming out of the charges, but if everything is true then this will go down as such an incredible waste of God given talent.
Illinois Hurdler wrote:
As someone who ran for Stevenson a few years before Jared I can only imagine the immense disappointment being felt by the coaches at the High School. Coach Schauble in particular put his heart and soul into Jared and this is how he was repaid. No one was a bigger supporter of Jared than Coach Schauble and Coach's heart must have been in knots when he heard the news. Jared was an immense talent who ran 4:21 in the 1600 and a 1:56 800 Meter leg on the 4x800 as a Freshman in High School. All the coaches on the team recognized his potential the second he stepped foot onto the track at Stevenson. A lot of fellow students on the team looked up to Jared as well and continued to follow him closely into his collegiate running. Point is that Jared was someone incredibly special to the team and school and he tore it down by being a complete idiot. We'll see what ends up coming out of the charges, but if everything is true then this will go down as such an incredible waste of God given talent.
They should be disappointed in the law, not him.
Hey you legal experts. Innocent until proven guilty. A good defense attorney might be able to argue the case that the package was not intended for him, or maybe get him off on a technicality. If he actually did it and has an otherwise good record he'll have a felony but can plea down to a much lesser sentence than 5-8 years behind bars as others are spouting off here.
Why are so many letsrunners so dumb? Tell me.
Gone Forever wrote:
borowsky gets arrested for 3.3 pounds of weed
Borowsky should be admired for being progressive, not ostracized and arrested.
And where is cannabis still illegal? What a backward country this is.
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Red Bull (who sponsors Mondo) calls Mondo the pole vaulting Usain Bolt. Is that a fair comparison?
