Malthouse says: recreational drugs may well be performance enhancing.

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  • Sanecow
    Suspended by the MRP
    • Mar 2003
    • 6917

    #46
    Originally posted by Annie Haddad
    Viagra is performance enhancing.
    Approved for use in sport though.

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    • AnnieH
      RWOs Black Sheep
      • Aug 2006
      • 11332

      #47
      Originally posted by NMWBloods
      And I think that's one of the critical points. If you are out at night clubs taking drugs, it's hardly going to benefit you on the football field, even if you are loading up on amphetamines.
      Actually, it could very well effect your performance on the sports field.
      No matter what "rereational" drug you're taking you're gunna get a "hangover" of sorts, for example, not sleeping (for a few days), sleeping (for a few days), flashbacks, etc. You'd be very wrong to think otherwise.
      So, for instance, if you took ice on Sunday after the game, you're not likely to sleep until say, Tuesday, then you're going to be really tired for Wednesday, Thursday and probably Friday. You need to play on Saturday. What other "upper" have you taken to make yourself face up to training at the end of the week?
      Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
      Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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      • AnnieH
        RWOs Black Sheep
        • Aug 2006
        • 11332

        #48
        Demetriou explains the AFL's Illicit Drug Policy
        Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
        Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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        • hammo
          Veterans List
          • Jul 2003
          • 5554

          #49
          Originally posted by Annie Haddad
          Actually, it could very well effect your performance on the sports field.
          No matter what "rereational" drug you're taking you're gunna get a "hangover" of sorts, for example, not sleeping (for a few days), sleeping (for a few days), flashbacks, etc. You'd be very wrong to think otherwise.
          How is that performance enhancing though?
          "As everyone knows our style of football is defensive and unattractive, and as such I have completely forgotten how to mark or kick over the years" - Brett Kirk

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          • NMWBloods
            Taking Refuge!!
            • Jan 2003
            • 15819

            #50
            Originally posted by Annie Haddad
            Actually, it could very well effect your performance on the sports field.
            No matter what "rereational" drug you're taking you're gunna get a "hangover" of sorts, for example, not sleeping (for a few days), sleeping (for a few days), flashbacks, etc. You'd be very wrong to think otherwise.
            How does any of that benefit you though?
            Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.

            "[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."

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            • AnnieH
              RWOs Black Sheep
              • Aug 2006
              • 11332

              #51
              They should just call them illicit drugs and be done with it. "Performance enhancing" gives out the wrong message.

              It doesn't ... it effects your performance - enhanced or otherwise.
              As per my example above, if you've taken ice, for instance, on Sunday - trust me, by Thursday you'll be taking something else to help keep you awake for training and for the game the following week. That's where the performance enhancing bit comes in.
              Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
              Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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              • NMWBloods
                Taking Refuge!!
                • Jan 2003
                • 15819

                #52
                What a ridiculous example. The performance-enhancing part is taking the 'upper' late in the week, not the ICE earlier in the week. That doesn't mean the ICE is performance-enhancing.

                They are all illicit and illegal. However, they are used for different purposes.
                Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.

                "[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."

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                • Layby
                  Suspended by the MRP
                  • May 2006
                  • 1803

                  #53
                  Originally posted by Annie Haddad
                  They should just call them illicit drugs and be done with it. "Performance enhancing" gives out the wrong message.
                  Nasal technology ?

                  That gives out something very different to a message

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