Nick Diaz Won’t Give Up Marijuana: I’m Gonna Want To Smoke
Brash and outspoken UFC welterweight Nick Diaz dodged a bullet (well, sort of) when his ludicrous five year suspension due to a positive drug test for Marijuana metabolites was lessened to 18 months by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC).
While 18 months is still quite a bit of time, especially given that Diaz’s most recent opponent, Anderson Silva, was only given a one year suspension after testing positive for steroids, the “Stockton Bad Boy” will be eligible to return to action on August 1, 2016.
Being that it was Diaz’s third offense for Marijuana in the state of Nevada likely added to his lengthy suspension, but that doesn’t mean that the former Strikeforce champion will give up his drug of choice.
In fact, Diaz made it very clear in a recent interview that despite the consequences, he’s going to want to smoke weed if his training remains the same:
“If I’m at home and I’m training – doing my same things every day – then I’m definitely going to want to use cannabis,” Diaz said. “It’s gonna help. I’m trying to stay focused on what I’m doing. I don’t want a whole lot of things going onâ people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don’t have those issues. If I’m going to train all day, when I get done, I’m gonna want to smoke. If I have to go and train all day, before I go, I’m gonna want to smoke. If I wake up in the morning and feel beat to shit, and it’s going to take me forever to wake up, I smoke some weed and I wake right up. Then I have breakfast and I go do a workout.” Diaz told Dan Skye of High Times.
The debate regarding whether or not Marijuana should even be a banned substance out of competition has run rampant as of late, with many feeling as if the use of the substance should garner no penalty.
Diaz has become a poster boy for Marijuana use in mixed martial arts so to say, and while he has been punished because of it, it doesn’t seem as if he’s going to stop.
However, this shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise given that the Diaz brothers have always played by their own rules.
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