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    J.T. Thomas arrested for possessing some marijuana

    By MJD | Shutdown Corner – Tue, Feb 14, 2012 12:14 PM EST

    J.T. Thomas (Getty Images)OK, so maybe he's not the best person ever. No one's perfect.

    J.T. Thomas was back in Morgantown over the weekend, where he played his college football, to raise money for his foundation to fight epilepsy. He did that, but unfortunately, that wasn't all he accomplished on his trip.

    He was also arrested for misdemeanor marijuana possession and driving the wrong way on a one-way street.

    Also, he's guilty of having a really bad hiding spot for his weed. Here's more from the Charleston Gazette:

    Morgantown Police Chief Ed Preston said Thomas was spotted driving the wrong way on a one-way street at over the 25 mph speed limit. He said when Thomas reached into the glove box, plastic bags with marijuana fell out.

    Sigh.

    Obviously, none of this erases the extraordinarily kind things Thomas has done, like taking that young lady to her prom, taking that young man to the Super Bowl, or starting the J.T. Thomas Foundation. You'd have to be pretty shortsighted, or just looking for a reason to hate J.T. Thomas, to believe that one misdemeanor marijuana charge wipes out all the good he's done and makes him a bad guy.

    Not that it's OK, either ‒ he's a role model, and riding dirty at 4 a.m. is not good. I guess the lesson here is that J.T. Thomas is not 100 percent sweetness and light, because no one is. Hopefully, this just pushes him to work even harder to do more good with his foundation to erase this from everyone's memory.

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    20 comments

    • Josh D
      Josh D  •  Coraopolis, Pennsylvania  •  3 months ago
      At least he wasn't driving drunk.
    • giovanni
      giovanni  •  New York, New York  •  3 months ago
      Well,of course he was only in possession of SOME weed ...Sam Hurd had the rest of it...
    • David C
      David C  •  Dekalb, Illinois  •  3 months ago
      "Sigh." Really? It's a few grams of weed. Get over it.
      • JerBear50
        JerBear50 3 months ago
        Yeah, and he's a borderline player who might seriously hurt his career for a few grams of weed. When you're a sixth round pick who spent your first year on IR, you don't give a team a reason to cut you. A little bag might not be that big a deal to you, but it's not worth losing your dream job over.
    • Ghost
      Ghost  •  Medford, Oregon  •  3 months ago
      He has done plenty of good, but when you are playing on a team where one of the players was just indicted for running a drug cartel ya might want to cut back on the weed......
    • Mark H
      Mark H  •  Wallingford, Pennsylvania  •  3 months ago
      wow...its 2012
      are we still judging a person over marijuana posession
      how played out is that?
    • Mike
      Mike  •  Gunnison, Colorado  •  3 months ago
      Who cares.. it just proves marijuana doesn't make you a bad person, because he already has done so much good.
    • BRADY is your GOD
      BRADY is your GOD  •  3 months ago
      Im going to light up a bowl right now!!!
    • Thanatos
      Thanatos  •  3 months ago
      He was carrying the rest of Hurd's stash.
    • Mark H
      Mark H  •  Wallingford, Pennsylvania  •  3 months ago
      only people who dont understand how corrupt the justice system is would ever judge some one for possession of mj.
      do a little research as to how weed charges effects the economics of the justic system and youll realized that its a farce

      oh and have fun paying your tax dollars to house such "dangerous outlaws"
    • Cosmos
      Cosmos  •  Houston, Texas  •  3 months ago
      Can we legalize it already? Seriously, we have more pressing matters to deal with.
    • Chester C
      Chester C  •  Maryville, Tennessee  •  3 months ago
      I think the bigger deal is that he was driving on the wrong side of the road, 25 MPH over the limit.
      • Andy
        Andy 3 months ago
        He was driving over the 25 mph speed limit.

        NOT 25 mph over the speed limit.

        Either way, driving the wrong way on the street is a much bigger deal than having some weed on you. Sometimes the one way streets surprise you though. I've been guilty of that a few times in the city.
    • malcolm
      malcolm  •  Lenexa, Kansas  •  3 months ago
      you are indicting his status as a role model for having a few grams of weed on his car? Funny, because the sport he plays in makes billions of dollars off of alcohol, a much more dangerous drug that has destroyed many more lives. The only lives that have been destroyed by weed are people that go to jail bc it's illegal. No one gets high on weed and beats their families or starts fights in public places etc etc
    • walters
      walters  •  Sunnyvale, California  •  3 months ago
      why does having some weed make him a bad guy??? get out of the reefer madness thinking of the 30's.... todays best cardio athletes smoke marijuana, Nick Diaz, Micheal Phelps....etc.... marijuana does not make you lazy.... i smoke daily and can still put up a 5 mile run in under 40 min..... not bad for a 32 year old "pothead"
    • O Danny Boy
      O Danny Boy  •  3 months ago
      What Josh Hamilton has done this month is a dozen times worse than what J.T. Thomas has done this month.
      • Andy
        Andy 3 months ago
        Hamilton had a few drinks. J.T. had some weed on him. For either guy, who gives a #$%@
    • Sniper
      Sniper  •  East Troy, Wisconsin  •  3 months ago
      Another victim of victimless crime laws. Land of the free huh?
      • The Unsilent Majority
        The Unsilent Majority 3 months ago
        And if he killed someone by driving the wrong way on the road, you'd argue that more people die from alcohol, right?
    • Mason
      Mason  •  3 months ago
      Possession of weed may be against the law but it's certainly not harmful to anyone. Keep arresting people for victim-less crimes, we are not the land of the free we are the land of the incarcerated. USA has the most people in jail out of any other country, over half of them on drug charges. Maybe it's time we give something new a try, cause the war on drugs is not working.
    • Vertskate900
      Vertskate900  •  North Chicago, Illinois  •  3 months ago
      Is there a reason Yahoo's Shutdown Corner runs the exact same story that's posted on Yahoo's NFL page? Talk about lazy, like extremely lazy...
    • aha h
      aha h  •  Pinole, California  •  3 months ago
      What a stupid reported. It's weed idiot, it's going to be legal soon.
    • Malcolm Kyle
      Malcolm Kyle  •  3 months ago
      Here are just a few of the many highly motivated athletes whose drug of choice is cannabis/marijuana:

      * Usain Bolt, the 2008 World Record holder of the 100 and 200 meter sprint.

      * Michael Phelps, the most decorated swimmer ever with 14 Olympic gold medals.

      * Tim Linecum, the National League baseball’s Cy Young Award winner for 2009.

      * Santonio Holmes, the Super Bowl XLII’s MVP.

      * Mark Stepnoski, two-time Super Bowl champion. "I'd rather smoke than take painkillers."

      * Randy Moss, NFL single season touchdown reception record (23, set in 2007), and the NFL single-season touchdown reception record for a rookie (17, in 1998). Moss has founded, and financed many charitable endeavors including the the Links for Learning foundation, formed in 2008.

      * Ricky Williams, the Heisman Trophy Winner in 1998. Throughout his life, Williams has dealt with anxiety and depression. He used to advertise the prescription drug Paxil. However he later stated “Marijuana is 10 times better for me than Paxil.”

      * Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time leader in points scored (38,387), games played, minutes played, field goals made, field goal attempts, blocked shots and defensive rebounds. During his career with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships and a record six regular season MVP Awards. He has a prescription to smoke marijuana in California, which he says he uses to control nausea and migraine headaches. He has been arrested twice for marijuana possession.

      * "I just let him know that most of the players in the league use marijuana and I have and do partake in smoking weed in the offseason" - Josh Howard, forward for the Dallas Mavericks. Howard admitted to smoking marijuana on Michel Irvin’s ESPN show.

      * "You got guys out there playing high every night. You got 60% of your league on marijuana. What can you do?" - Charles Oakley (Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks, Toronto Raptors, Washington Wizards and Houston Rockets)

      * "I personally know boxers, body builders, cyclists, runners and athletes from all walks of life that train and compete with the assistance of marijuana," - WWE wrestler Rob Van Dam

      * Some of the best cricket players of all time, like Phil Tufnell and Sir Ian Botham, have admitted to regularly using marijuana to deal with stress and muscle aches. In 2001, half of South Africa's cricket team was caught smoking marijuana with the team physiotherapist. They were celebrating a championship victory in the Caribbean.
    • clever1
      clever1  •  Elmhurst, Illinois  •  3 months ago
      J.T. was really proud that he grew the weed himself.
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