Mayfield and the Meth
 

He got caught again so it could be the end of JM, there is no place in sports for performance enhanching drugs or mind altering drugs. NASCAR, MLB, NBA etc.. should adopt the IOC stance, if your caught then your gone - Life time ban

Generally speaking, I agree, but something is really strange about this.

Supposedly Meth stays in your system for ~4 days, he claims he has had tests every couple days since this started and all have been clean. He also said he had tests just before and just after the NASCAR test that he failed, and both were clean.

There are also allegations that NASCAR falsified tests in the past:

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/22/sports/nfl-adviser-accused.html?scp=4&sq=tim%20richmond&st=cse

Yeah, it was 20 years ago, but essentially the same jokers are in charge down in Daytona.

+1 Unbelievable

When you own the house you make the rules.

It seems there is a wicked step Mother involved....

http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/9787800

Absolute power brings absolute corruption.

I've never been around a meth head (as far as I know), but I find it hard to believe that he could be functioning as well as he has with a serious meth problem.

I've seen a few guys that worked in one of the shops at work (I really only knew them in passing) that wound up as serious meth heads. Once seriously hooked on the stuff, none of them lasted very long in their jobs or with their families. We all joke about "killing brain cells" - this stuff really does. Lasting, pretty much irreversible side affects.

In light of what I've seen, I find it impossible to believe Mayfield uses the stuff. He is far too lucid and articulate. He has far too much money to have to dabble in such a po' boy, redneck drug. He can afford real drugs; no need for something cooked up by trailer trash out in the woods somewhere.

I know nothing of this "NASCAR" you speak of but I do know about druggies. If he has used as much as they claimed, it would be obvious.

My question is and maybe it is normal for the sport but he keeps talking about all the test he has had done, even prior to getting caught. Why take so many tests

Nascar is likely spiking the tests...they picked a guy to have a drug problem because the period of time JUST before it was when Manny (ramierez?) was caught in MLB. The guy who runs Nascar is a wannabew NFL?MLB owner so he of course wants to share in the "we enforce drug policies too" limelight. so they likely made this up and offered Mayfield as a sacrificial lamb. The OP drank the kollaid (like alot of others apparently) and beielved it. I hope that he wins...and gets $$$$$$$$$$$$
I don't beleive for 1 second that he is a meth head..and the facts support it, several sources give him a clean record, several sources took the same combination of prescription meds and came to the same result. The fact that Nascar is not allowing a b sample to be indendently tested is actually against several laws in places.
If he really was a big meth user, you'd see it....they are easy to spot(look at their eyes)

She testified that he not only used Meth, but that he used to cook his own! I seriously doubt that someone who is a casual user, will cook their own. These people are relying on a witness that does not seem credible.

Maybe it was heroin he was cooking?

Nope, the article states she said he was cooking meth.

This seems hard to believe

I would also doubt someone can be a casual user of meth. The before and pictures I've seen are pretty telling.

Was there a post here before that opined he was looking for a settlement from NASCAR? That seems unlikely but yet plausible.

I have always sort of liked the guy. He has behaved a lot better than some of the children in NASTYCAR. I hope he gets exonerated.

If he's clean.

milt, that is the problem. In the court of public opinion (and the unwashed nascar masses) he is guilty...and that is basically it for his career. what sponser would he possibly get now?

In the 1920's, it was widely believed that one toke of pot would turn you into a raving, murderous lunatic.

In the 1980's, it was one little rock of crack or one snort of coke that would ruin your life forever.

Part of me wonders if meth isn't just the latest drug to be demonized with hyperbole.

I think the misinformation on drugs is officially backfiring with meth. Its "the boy who cried wolf". Except this time, Meth is the wolf. Meth is very, very bad, destructive stuff.