One of college football’s brightest stars of the past decade has gotten himself into even more trouble. Tyrann Mathieu, a Heisman contender for LSU’s defense, was arrested again today for the possession of Marijuana in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mathieu had been kicked off LSU’s team last season for failing to pass several drug tests. Today he was arrested when policed were called to an apartment complex for a disturbance involving a man trying to bust through the apartments gates. This man was later identified as LSU’s former quarterback Jordan Jefferson, who had also been kicked off LSU’s team for drug use. When officers arrived to Mathieu’s apartment the door was already open and “immediately smelled a strong odor of marijuana” according to a police news release. Mathieu and his three other former LSU teammates were pretty much asking to be caught by going about his drug use with such little care of authorities finding out. Why someone with a future as bright as Mathieu’s would fowl it up is beyond comprehension; a young man that was on his way to a spectacular professional football career which entitled him to multimillion dollar contracts and a way out of the poverty stricken life he had grown up in, but he could never get past the temptation of using drugs. This is Mathieu’s third arrest, and most definitely ends his hopes of ever making it to the NFL. This brings up a topic that we recently talked about in class, which is whether or not marijuana should be legal. If it marijuana was legal then Tyrann Mathieu would still be on track for his NFL career, or already in the NFL, but it is still an illegal drug which has altered his life forever.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--tyrann-mathieu-lsu-baton-rouge-more-trouble-marijuana.html
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