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and that those who abuse drugs — eveftfirst-time offenders — will be punished severely. -
Then, Dexter Manley gets his football career back after serving one year of a lifetinje ban as a three-time loner at the league’s drug-testing pro% gram. .
Granted, Manley was not caught avith drugs in his possession, and he was never charged with a criminal offense involving drug use or distribution.
However, a positive test for drugs is, to me, prima facie evidence that the person used drugs. Such tests are, on occasion, unreliable, but in this case the result was not challenged.
Meanwhile, judges are sending young black kids from America’s inner cities to jail for years for possession of drugs. They are not likely to get a reprieve from Commissioner Tagliabue — or anyone else — after serving only one year.
They are far more likely to be beaten and abused, leaving prison as hardened criminals with little likelihood of a life beyond crime.
But three-time loser Manley,' who by the lucky possession of physical skills worth a lot of money on the gridiron — but practically worthless anywhere else — will get a fourth chance. And not only that, he will be paid $30,000 a week for the four games he will play during the rest of
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