Sorry Chaos. You are incorrect WRT testing. Our clinic offers testing for both synthetic marijuana and bath salts. The cost is about $65 for each test. Most companies have not yet employed the testing except under reasonable suspicion protocol due to the incremental cost with the advanced testing. A typical 10-panel extended opiate drug screen runs about $55. So you are reaching upwards of $120-$185 for a drug test if you want to add in the synthetics and/or bath salts. We can also test for the different isomers of marijuana and marinol to determine if someone is using their script for marinol as a license to burn the herb. It surprises me that LSU was testing players for synthetics, but then again, we are at the top of the food chain.
NCAA Year-Round Drug-Testing Program FAQ - NCAA.org Not sure if legit but found this link while browsing. Didn't notice anything about punishment but thought it was interesting that the NCAA generally only tests once/year, which includes 18 from the football team.
that's why i said rumor. but if true (if there is a way to test for it) then the idiot factor just went up. and yes, illegal is illegal. field turf or astro turf, it was a piss poor decision. (pun intended.)
I didn't realize that they were able to test for the synthetics because they kept coming up with so many different compounds. You'd really have to stay ahead of the game. Personally, I doubt that they were testing the football players for synthetics. It's probably just the standard piss test. I stand by my previous stance that the synthetic rumor is BS. I just don't know how anyone would have access to that type of info.
Just out of curiosity, is synthetic pot illegal in Tennessee? I know it was legal in Texas for awhile after La. made it illegal. Only for hypothetical purposes and not being realistic, but would it be against the rules (i.e. drug test) for players to go out to a bar after beating Tenn and have a couple of beers while smoking synthetic pot? Before the dangers of synthetic pot were known and it started to become illegal, I'd see people smoking it all the time on patios outside of bars during happy hours.
I was in Austin in mid-August, and a buddy of mine who lives there is on probation for a DUI. He smokes the synthetics because of his drug tests, and bought it regularly from his local gas station. So I think it's still legal in TX. I think you are thinking of the bath salts, not the synthetic weed. They only made it illegal so teenagers couldn't get their hands on it. Instead, they just buy the real thing. Great plan.
according to the Times Picayune: Source: LSU's Spencer Ware, Tyrann Mathieu, Tharold Simon suspended for Auburn game | NOLA.com synthetic marijuana is made by combining legal plant materials with legal chemicals all synthetic marijuana was legal until 2010 when states started passing laws to ban certain forms of it (for ex, Louisiana passed a law effective August 15, 2010 banning four types of synthetic marijuana). however, there are still other types of synthetic marijuana that are still legal so it's possible the players thought the stuff they were smoking was legal (and it even might have been) also, synthetic weed doesn't show up drug tests to detect cannabis, only on advanced drug tests specifically designed to test for synthetic marijuana so it's possible the player thought the stuff they were smoking wouldn't show up on the drug test, which is why they didn't take something that would help them pass the drug test like most marijuana smokers do and of course, it's possible that the Times Picayune source is wrong, and that the players weren't smoking synthetic marijuana at all
From what I understand that at LSU you are counseled after the first failed drug test, suspended 15% of the remaining games for the second and suspended for the season for the third. So, if this is true, then it would mean this is the second offense.
