Ohio State OT Mike Adams tested positive for pot at the combine

Bengals.

I'm within a year of Adams either way, and while I certainly don't pretend I always make the best choices (and will admit to some very dumb ones), this is just unbelievably dumb.

Honestly, I'd bet some of the harshest criticism he'll get are from teammates of his, or current NFL'ers who are only a year or two older than he is.

I was about to agree with you, but I thought about it a bit more and changed my mind. Thinking about it from a " what is the most stupid thing I could see myself possibly doing" standpoint, there is a big difference between getting way too drunk the night before an exam, or something along those lines and smoking pot before the NFL combine, arguably the most important moment thus far in his life, knowing you will get drug tested.

Basically, I believe the overwhelming majority of sane young adults, although admittedly foolish at times, will never make a decision knowing that it will likely cost you hundreds of thousands (millions?) of dollars.

It appears that the person making absolute statements here is you, not me. But if you had read the entire post you would have realized that.

You may endorse ingestion of caffeine, alcohol, pot, crack, and heroin, but you would probably be disturbed if your doctor attempted to operate on you while drunk. Would that make someon a hypocrite if they believed that intoxication is okay? I don't think so, because there are times when such activity can harm other people, and (at least in theory) the pro-legalization crowd understands that at those times drunkenness or drug intoxication is not good.

Someone who states "I believe that morals are subjective" should be able to recognize the difference between saying "I believe that drug use is wrong and I think anyone who does it should be banned from the NFL" and saying "I believe drug use is wrong, but from a professional standpoint the major issue here is that someone is unable to control themselves when their lack of control could jeopardize their professional future."

In this case I have far more concern (on a football level) about Mike Adams than I do about, say, Percy Harvin, who did not test positive but admitted in questioning that he had smoked. Doesn't mean I endorse his activity, but from a football standpoint Harvin was simply being honest and not endangering the well-being of either himself or the team. Adams demonstrated a serious lack of regard for the gravity of his situation.

I understand your position.  I don't agree but I understand what you're trying to say.  I think it may be less of a lack of self control than a lack of consequences from the other mistakes he made in his college career.  One thing I've learned as a parent is your kids will do a lot of things that don't make sense if they think they can get away with it.

I understood what you were saying.  You're just wrong.  People are inconsistent when it comes to self control.  My grandfather was a high-functioning alcoholic, but he never hurt anyone.  Plenty of guys are in complete control when it comes to substances, but they abuse women.  Some guys do everything right save for their gambling problem...Mike Adams tested positive for marijuana one time as far as we know.  That was dumb, and it would worry me as a GM, but it would only worry me as to his possible future marijuana use.  You can't learn anything else from the positive test.  He's also 21 or 22 years old (or whatever).  He's not the guy he's going to be when he's 30 (hopefully).