Kyle Walker - Took Legal High - No Action by FA

So what are your thoughts SILH?

I'm with the current posters, it's Legal at the moment, therefore, no action.

I can't even see why it's in the papers, and why he needs to make an apology, personally.
 
Have any of you come across the effects and miserable damage that legal high drugs can have on individuals, their peer group and a community? I have. And it is hellish. Legal high drugs can kill - and have killed.

The law will do nothing - they are legal. The FA or the PFA as responsible authoritys should at least reprimand him in some way, something akin to a caution that the police might issue for some misdemeanours - as taking any form of legal high and authority taking absolutely no action both send a very, very dangerous message to youngsters.

He said sorry - big deal.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Have any of you come across the effects and miserable damage that legal high drugs can have on individuals, their peer group and a community? I have. And it is hellish. Legal high drugs can kill - and have killed.

The law will do nothing - they are legal. The FA or the PFA as responsible authoritys should at least reprimand him in some way, something akin to a caution that the police might issue for some misdemeanours - as taking any form of legal high and authority taking absolutely no action both send a very, very dangerous message to youngsters.

He said sorry - big deal.
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the key is it's legal in the this land today, alcohol can have the same effects as per your comment in bold, cigarettes are proven to kill, they are also legal.......

I don't disagree the Govt needs to act and organisations need to change their views and policies to legal high drugs just as they all did with alcohol and smoking use.....
 
Blown out of all proportions, the key is in the title "LEGAL" if he was snorting coke off a prostitutes "whatevers" then yeh, you are in trouble son! Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas. big deal. if he had been taking one of these so called "legal highs" that is a new version of an old drug, just found its way through a loop hole for a short while OK eg mephedrone or similar then i agree, that is not a good image to portray., but come on.. whats next? inhaling helium baloons at a kids party to be banned (or at least be back page news)

Mountain + Molehill = Press frenzy
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Have any of you come across the effects and miserable damage that legal high drugs can have on individuals, their peer group and a community? I have. And it is hellish. Legal high drugs can kill - and have killed.

The law will do nothing - they are legal. The FA or the PFA as responsible authoritys should at least reprimand him in some way, something akin to a caution that the police might issue for some misdemeanours - as taking any form of legal high and authority taking absolutely no action both send a very, very dangerous message to youngsters.

He said sorry - big deal.
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I would say that Alcohol has a much much worse effect, and is just as legal.

You wouldn't ask for a footballer seen drinking a pint to apologise for his actions, so why the difference in this case?
 
I guess player inhales laughing gas didnt have the same ring to it.
 
Folk are getting upset by this....really??

As I have said hunners of times on this forum I really do not know how certain folk manage to get over the doorstep in the mornings.
 
CheltenhamHacker said:
I would say that Alcohol has a much much worse effect
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And you'd be very, very wrong. Many of the legal high substancs of a few years ago are now illegal in recognition of the danger they present to users. But new legal high drugs appear all the time. Legal does mean they them harmless - it means they are not yet illegal. Please don't think that legal high drugs are harmless fun - some are as addictive and damaging as crack cocaine.

Yes I agree describing NO as a 'legal high' is exaggerating the danger of it's use when compared with other 'legal highs'. But the very fact of it being presented in the media - rightly or wrongly - as such means that it would be sensible to make it clear that for an international footballer to be using anything that has 'legal high' connotations is bad. I believe that Walker should simply be reprimanded for bringing the game into disrepute and for setting a bad example - because whether you agree with it or not - he has done both.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
And you'd be very, very wrong. Many of the legal high substancs of a few years ago are now illegal in recognition of the danger they present to users. But new legal high drugs appear all the time. Legal does mean they them harmless - it means they are not yet illegal. Please don't think that legal high drugs are harmless fun - some are as addictive and damaging as crack cocaine.
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http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/subna...1/alcohol-related-deaths-in-the-uk--2011.html

8,748 alcohol related deaths in 2011. I haven't seen any stats, but I highly doubt the number of deaths from legal highs is anywhere near as bad.

And those are just the deaths. Those don't include injuries, the effects of alcohol on domestic violence, and the wider community as a whole.

I don't want to come across preachy, I love a good drink, and I'm just like the next person, but I have not seen anything that convinces me alcohol isn't one of the worst things that happens to people, and is much more destructive (in terms of numbers) than any drug.
 
CheltenhamHacker said:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/subna...1/alcohol-related-deaths-in-the-uk--2011.html

8,748 alcohol related deaths in 2011. I haven't seen any stats, but I highly doubt the number of deaths from legal highs is anywhere near as bad.

And those are just the deaths. Those don't include injuries, the effects of alcohol on domestic violence, and the wider community as a whole.

I don't want to come across preachy, I love a good drink, and I'm just like the next person, but I have not seen anything that convinces me alcohol isn't one of the worst things that happens to people, and is much more destructive (in terms of numbers) than any drug.
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I absolutely accept that alcohol is a bigger long term problem - but I'm not really doing a compare and contrast - I'm doing an absolute. And taking legal high drugs is abolutely not a good thing and should be discouraged whenever possible. There was an opportunity with Kyle Walker to make such a statement and send a message - it wasn't taken - which was a pity.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
I absolutely accept that alcohol is a bigger long term problem - but I'm not really doing a compare and contrast - I'm doing an absolute. And taking legal high drugs is abolutely not a good thing and should be discouraged whenever possible. There was an opportunity with Kyle Walker to make such a statement and send a message - it wasn't taken - which was a pity.
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Why should he make a statement?? He's a young lad on a night out breaking no laws & hurting no one.
 
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