Of course players are human.

Do all industries ban people from working within them for using recreational drugs? If it's not to set itself up as some sort of arbiter of morals and acceptability, why does the RFL ban players for doing something that is not illegal?

The RFL's compass is shot to pieces IMO. Law breakers bring the game into a far greater level of disrepute than recreational drug users.

Doesn't count Count. He was given it by the RFL's doctor. If anything the RFL should have paid compensation for that.

Pfffft

used to be medicinal but I would suggest Ileagal drug. I personally dont like the term recreational. Its not You are breaking the law to possess it, and for me recreational makes it more acceptable. I dont disagree thats probably a catagory it would fit in I just dont like the term.

recreational is used to describe the reason it is used, not its legal status. Alcohol is a recreational drug.

The law on drugs is as pointless as it is counter productive. There is no sense or logic behind it. Psilocilbyn is a class A substance even though it has next to no toxicity, they dont actually know at what level it would be fatal, because nobody has ever been able to take enough of it. It is naturally occurring and none-addictive. Alcohol on the other hand (similarly grouped as a psychoactive drug) is pretty toxic, can cause heart disease, can be fatal in relatively small doses, is carcinogenic, physically addictive, can cause diabetes, strokes, dementia, around 33'000 people in this country alone die as a result of alcohol's toxicity. That's not to mention the thousands who die because of the impaired decision making (accidents, falls, violence, drink driving etc)


The laws position on a certain drug, bares no relation to the harm that drug can cause.