What you're not understanding is the Justin Blackmon is 10 times the screw up that Josh Gordon is. Not saying Gordon is the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he escalated in the drug program by taking cough syrup for a cold, and then failed his drug test partially because he was in a car with someone smoking pot. And yes, the test results make that story likely true. The guy is getting railroaded by a ridiculous policy. Marijuana is rapidly becoming decriminalized and legalized across the country, and is NOT performance enhancing. He's a talented player I want to see out there playing. Not sitting at home because he didn't have the good sense to tell his buddy to wait to toke up until after he was out of the car.
Your buying the cough syrup excuse? Your buying the second hand smoke excuse? I agree with you that I would like to see him on the field however I don't think he is innocent in either matter and the rules are stated so everyone is aware of them. If my office had a rule that I could not wear yellow shirts to work I would probably just follow that rule.
There's really nothing to 'buy' with the cough syrup excuse... that's confirmed at this point as he had the RX for the cough medicine. Whether he has a doctor that he paid off for the RX is neither here nor there, he took some cough medicine, the cough medicine had codeine in it, there is no debate there.
The second hand smoke excuse? Yeah, I'll buy that at least somewhat for a few reasons.
1. I forget where but I believe I read that he had passed 70 prior drug tests before this one came up positive. Which to me means he's probably being tested what... every week or every other week?
2. If he was in fact tested every week, which would make sense than we're talking about it being nearly impossible for him to pass a drug test if he smoked. If he smoked within a week or two of this test his levels would've been significantly higher. The only way they'd stay this low is if he maybe started to take a hit and stopped halfway through and thought "Ehh... nah, I shouldn't do this".
3. A lot of people have posted studies in here that prove it's possible for second hand smoke to produce the levels he did.
All in all, yeah... it's next to impossible unless about a month of time passed between his last test and this one for him to have actually smoked. His levels would've been significantly higher than they were.