Joe Rogan and MMA Fighters Make 4/20 a Joint Effort

So, yesterday was 4/20/10.  April 20th. Get it? Four-twenty? Weed? For most people, it is just another day. For people whose idea of "work" includes encouraging people to eat bugs and calling the action for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, well, 4/20 is a national holiday. Yesterday Joe Rogan, the comedian and game show host you look for when Regis Philbin is busy and Thomas Bergeron has too much pride, continued his brave crusade for the legalization of marijuana.

"There's the problem of, "If they were wrong about this, what else are they lying to us about?" That could start a big, fat, chain reaction shit storm that no one in government wants to deal with.
There are a lot of people that are convinced that we're going to see legalization in our lifetime. I'm not one of them," Rogan writes at his blog.  "I applaud all the efforts of the people pushing for legalization, and especially the folks that are working hard to provide medical cannabis for the thousands of people that benefit greatly from the use of this unusual plant - but I could see this thing play out the same way year after year. The medical movement will grow, and slowly it'll be more acceptable, but I have a feeling we're a long way from legalization."

Marijuana is one of MMA's worst kept secrets.  It's practically a way of life for the sports Brazilian jiu jitsu practitioners, perhaps to take their minds off the fact that they have their head all up in another dudes crotch half their lives. The issue exploded into the public consciousness when Nick Diaz had to forfeit a fight when post fight drug testing indicated he may have actually been toking between rounds. Later, Diaz's trainer Cesar Gracie revealed a secret deal with the California State Athletic Commission that would allow Gracie to smoke all he wanted as long as he had a medical marijuana card.  That deal ceased to exist, probably the exact moment Gracie revealed it to the public.

At the end of the day (and at the beginning and in the middle) MMA fighters are going to smoke weed. Look, they have nothing to do all day but work out occasionally and play video games.  It is inevitable and probably healthy for the world to have them calm and on the coach rather than out and about.  Look what happens everytime they let War Machine loose. Thinking about arguing the point with Rogan? Rethink. When he's not high, he's got no time for internet yahoos. Joe Rogan, as jiu jitsu wizard Eddie Bravo once told me, is more than an occasionally funny comedian.  He's "a bad motherf*cker."