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In its wrangling with Jeremy Mayfield, NASCAR confuses having a positive drug test with actual impairment.* Stimulants are used to assist in driving. (Coffee anyone?) If Mayfield does use methamphetamine, it is clear that he does so in a responsible manner.** Unfortunately, in the War on Drugs that is irrelevant.<\/p>\n
* The Drug Czar recently made the same error when he raised alarms about the percentage of drivers testing positive for marijuana (LINK<\/a>). He did not bother to note that marijuana’s psychoactive effects only last hours while trace amounts can stay in the system for up to a month.<\/p>\n ** For testimony about Mayfield’s work ethic from his manager, a former police officer, go to this LINK<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sources:<\/p>\n 1. “Air Force Rushes to Defend Amphetamine Use,” 18 Jan. 2003, TheAge.com.au. LINK<\/a> In its wrangling with Jeremy Mayfield, NASCAR confuses having a positive drug test with actual impairment.* Stimulants are used to assist in driving. (Coffee anyone?) If Mayfield does use methamphetamine, it is clear that he does so in a responsible manner.** Unfortunately, in the War on Drugs that is irrelevant. * The Drug Czar recently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,82,9],"tags":[102,581,101,349,403,404,34,36,582,38,35,103],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amphetamine","category-drugs","category-marijuana","tag-air-force","tag-amphetamine","tag-amphetamines","tag-cartoon","tag-comic","tag-illustration","tag-jeremy-mayfield","tag-meth","tag-methamphetamine","tag-methamphetamines","tag-nascar","tag-speed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Terry Blount, “Mayfield Running Out of Good Will,” ESPN.com, 15 July 2009. LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"