In most professional sports organizations, athlete contracts contain a clause which dictates a player can be fined, punished, suspended, or released if he breaks any league drug rules, or is involved in any public legal cases involving drugs. After all, much of the present and future fan base of sports is the youth, and it’s certainly bad for business when your star athletes are being arrested for drugs. Professional baseball, football, and hockey are remarkably consistent on this issue. Every year, inevitably, there are both in-league suspensions for players using illegal substances, and player suspensions for discipline of public arrests somehow related to drugs. Players might be upset about their punishments for both types of offenses, but they have to adhere to it. After all, the players’ union negotiates these points with team ownership, well ...

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