Whoa can you feel it:

a teacher and swimming coach I will continue to tell kids that POT SMOKING is bad…as I do with alcohol, cigarettes, staying out after curfew, disobeying parents, not doing homework, etc.  If we (parents, teachers, journalists, coaches, clergy,etc.) don’t do it who will?  Because of the mistakes of some top athletes are we just supposed to throw up our hands and say, “OK, kids are going to do this anyway so why bother” ???  NO! NO! NO! 

Have you read a book called “Not my kid”?  Are you a parent of a teenager?  Why not stop by a rehab for teens and try writing another load of crap like you did for the Sunday newspaper.  I know a few parents that wish they hadn’t been so “understanding” the first time they discovered drug use/abuse.  POT SMOKING has ruined careers.  There are more consequences ahead for both of the atletes you mention…. and that, my friend, is something you did not touch upon in your “editorial”.

Wow.