Comments on: Jaamal Berry Arrested

By: fairfaxbuck

fairfaxbuck — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:07:54 +0000

It wasn’t 28 grams. It was 28 ounces. However there were 3 people in the car and nobody claimed it.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:08:43 +0000

Can we for once in this day and freaking age take responsibility for ones actions??

I mean please………………its against the muther freaking law………………..and its against team rules………….and its agianst alot of muther freaking things. I wish people would quit passing blame or excuses as to why kids make stupid a** muther freaking descisions. They know right from muther freaking wrong………………they do………………..and it about time to the muther freaking law down…………………..

Sorry kid………….your done…………..( bottom muther freaking line )

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:07:56 +0000

Absolutely right Vico. Florida’s problem isn’t so much with kids smoking pot, it’s with the organizations, that grow it by the metric ton, and import/distribute it. A lot of death and destruction comes with that. The theory of these Draconian measures is to attack the demand side of things (having lost miserably on the supply side of the war). I’d love to see cannabis legalized, if for only this reason. However, that wouldn’t solve the larger problem of other highly addictive, and highly profitable, drugs. In the larger international sense, we (the U.S.) accuse other nations of harboring drug cartels. The nations in question accuse the U.S. of insatiable appetite for drugs (including foolish kids who can’t say no). It’s all part of the same problem. Drug traffickers are miserable parasites that destroy lives, and countries, just to make a buck. It’s a big problem.

By: Vico

Vico — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:43:48 +0000

This has to be something unique to Florida and an artifact of the 1980s and the “War on Drugs”. Florida, being identified as the port for narcotics, may have Draconian drug legislation because of it.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:30:54 +0000

Caballo,

Recreational drug/alcohol use is not OK. Excusing illegal actions is not OK. I don’t have a problem, none at all, with legalization of cannabis. I’d like to pull the rug out from under the profiteers of these illicit trades (they’re not very nice people). Alcohol/tobacco/drugs/cannabis have no place at the training table. “Everybody doing it” is probably how everybody else gets started, that’s not much of an excuse.

The Florida law is ridiculously harsh, and Jaamal could pay dearly for his foolishness. I’d like to see him remain a Buckeye, I’d like to see him get national accolades. I’d especially love to see him become an academic All-American. In short, I want him to mature, succeed, and become part of Buckeye lore … but, I’m out of the loop on these decisions.

By: El Caballo de Sangre

El Caballo de Sangre — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:32:49 +0000

I didn’t have time to say this before, but: I absolutely believe that Berry should be able to keep his scholarship if at all possible. This arrest is not cause to label him a “bad” kid. He may have made a “dumb choice” here, but that’s something that all – repeat ALL – 18-year-olds do. People like to talk about scholarship kids as if they’re to be expected to take account of every single possible negative consequence of every action – in short, as if they weren’t 18-year-old kids.

I’m actually more outraged at the fact that simple possession of less than 3/4 of an ounce of weed is apparently enough to incur a felony charge (in the larger sense, I’m actually outraged that cannabis is illegal, but that’s another subject). I don’t know how much anybody else here knows about it, but you can take my word for it that that’s really not a large quantity. Even if Berry was holding an ounce (or more), he’s not charged with intent to distribute (meaning it was all in one bag), we’re not talking about quantities inconsistent with personal use. If it weren’t for the (idiotic) law against it, I would personally have no problem with every single Buckeye athlete being a recreational pot smoker – I used to run into lots of Buckeye athletes engaged in (perfectly legal) recreational alcohol use/abuse when I lived/hung out around South Campus, and I can tell you that those guys were more of a danger to themselves and society than anybody I’ve ever run into getting high.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:38:03 +0000

Any chance Lydell Ross still has a year of elgibility?…….actually I’ll go with the guy in prison…………………..
……..seriously this sucks though……

By: Ohio State Football

Ohio State Football — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:47:35 +0000

Carlos Hyde is now #3.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:09:52 +0000

jesusjumpinchrist… well, I guess this opens things up a bit at running back.

By: Vico

Vico — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:37:43 +0000

http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2009/06/11/story_jamaal_berry.html?sid=102

out on bond