The PDGA and other disc golf groups and programs (such as E.D.G.E.)—are trying hard to overcome the stereotype of disc golf as a sport for dope-smoking hippies and college kids. And in many ways, they have gone a long ways towards improving the visibility and image of disc golf and disc golfers.
If we want to grow as a sport and gain the attention of potential sponsors, we have to clean up our image.
But it seems that the only time you hear about disc golf in the news, dope is involved.
In Grapevine, TX this weekend, at Bear Creek Park, a disc golfer was busted by his own Labrador Retriever:
Matthew Porter of Richland Hills and two friends were playing Frisbee golf in a suburban park Monday when a police officer who thought he smelled burning marijuana began questioning them.
As the officer was checking for outstanding warrants, J.D. [the guy's dog] waded into a nearby creek and emerged with a plastic bag containing the drug.
First of all, it’s disc golf, not frisbee golf (thankfully they didn’t call it frolf).
Secondly, I’m glad to see cops patrolling disc golf courses for drug use. I’d like to see more of it. Especially here in Austin.
Memo to APD: If you want to bust a bunch of people smoking dope on a regular basis, go undercover as a disc golfer, and hang out at Pease Park. You can probably make a bust on 3 out of every 4 groups of golfers that play through.
I don’t have a problem with dope smoking. Just do it at home, guys. Not in our public parks. We were out there today with my niece and nephew, and I’d hate to have to whip your ass for pulling out your weed in front of the kids. Plus, if enough of you idiots are busted for smoking dope while playing disc golf, the city might consider pulling the course because it encourages illegal behavior. And then I’d have to kick your ass for that.
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I am shocked – shocked! – that dope smokers combine toking and disc golf at Pease Park. All this time, I thought they were just scruffy guys with big appetites for lots of junk food
Seriously though, I think you’re right on about the enforcement issue.
Yeah, I’m catching flak on the PDGA message boards for taking this stance. But that’s because most of the flak is coming from people who are dope smokers.
I stated that I would love to see cops go undercover in our cities’ parks, posing as disc golfers. It wouldn’t take very long for word-of-mouth to spread, and you’d see a lot less dope smoking in those parks (and you do see a lot if you play disc golf—I have seen or smelled a disc golfer toke up nearly every time I have ever played a non-sanctioned event or casual round—and that’s thousands upon thousands of rounds of disc golf over the last 10 years). People think that it would hurt our sport to have this kind of negative publicity. My arguement, is that this is already how the general non-disc-golf-playing public perceives us. The cops coming in and cleaning up this illegal behavior would do more to help our image than it would to hurt it.
Idiot pot heads. Go home and smoke your dope. I don’t care. Just stay out of our public parks.
While I don’t want to see undercover cops in the parks, I admit that this is where it might be heading to get a real grasp on the issue.
I do think they’d grab more alcohol offenders in Houston than marijuana. Are Austin’s parks dry?
A few parks are specifically dry, and you’re right, they probably would be able to write more tickets for alcohol than for drugs. For that matter at Pease Park, they could probably write just as many tickets for dogs off their leash (outside of the leash free part of the park) as they could for anything.
But having a six pack or two cases of beer would result in the same ticket or citation (I doubt there would be any arrests). You would be violating a city ordiance with the beer, and would probably just get a warning. But drugs are illegal, and could land you in jail. There is, legally speaking, a big difference.
There’s little difference, it just depends on where you stand. Alcoholics cause more trouble and waste considerably more police time then even the most hardcore tokers. In Britain every night people spill onto the streets and cause havoc and vandalism after a night drinking. The difference is in social acceptability and government taxability. Free the weed.
Wow. I can’t believe that your IP resolves back to Amsterdam, Martin….and that you’re in favor of legal pot. Way to perpetuate the stereotype.
Ever see a empty pot can laying around in the bushes?
i never saw an empty pot can lying around, but it sure is easy to find an empty beer can that can be converted into a pipe in about 15 seconds. thanks beer drinkers for trashing out parks!
Undercover Cops? Are you F’n kidding me? What did a guy smoking pot ever do to you? Nothing? Oh okay then F@#k Off!!! If your precious sensabilities are so easily disturbed perhaps you should check yourself into a mental hospital. Our sport isn’t hurting in the least, dope or no dope, in fact it is growing substantially every year. Since you know where all the dope is why don’t you just stay away from it if it bothers you so much. Too bad it isn’t illegal to be a closed minded A-hole. If it were you’d be in prison and the rest of us pot heads could live with a lot less whining Robbie.
Bailey…put down the pipe, get off the couch, go get a job, and shut the fuck up.
I thought Heroin was the drug of choice where you live in Plano? Are you sure it’s only a little weed you’ve been smoking?
So, did you ever get your dog back?
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Pot is a normal for children to see. It’s no different than a child seeing someone drinking a cup of coffee. People that tell thier children to avoid seeing marijuana are just perpetuating that we have no freedom. Where is your tolerance? Do you hate Iraqi’s, Jews, gays and lesbians too? We have too many rules. Pot smokers never hurt anyone at the park. Go to a ball golf course and watch the drunks drive their carts like maniacs around your children. Get educated and become tolerated.
Smoking pot is relaxing after trading 1.5 million shares a day.
[...] Monday, February 21, 2005 More Unreality from “The Real World”Longhorn Mafia alerts readers to the continuing absurdity of “The Real World”, now being shot in Austin. Apparently, an LM acquaintance happened upon a shoot where a sign with these words was posted”Come in & Go About Your Regular Business Ignore the Cameras”In other words, ignore the reality of the cameras while we create, manufacture, distort, and manipulate “reality” for our target audience. Now they are asking innocent bystanders to suspend their disbelief, in addition to the audience. “Pot Smoker Busted by Own Dog”The funniest post of the day goes to UrbanGrounds, who chronicles the can’t-catch-a-break travails of north Texas dope smokers. He also outs local disc golf players at Pease Park as pot heads. I am shocked – shocked! – that those disc golf jokers and smokers are also mid-day tokers. All this time I thought they were just scruffy looking guys with a big appetite for junk food. Permalink posted by Travis Fell @ 9:22 PM 2 comments links to this post [...]
You guys are a bunch of lame wuss bags. “Please dont smoke weed because it offends me and my christian brethren. I am trying to keep my kids sheltered from the world so that they will grow up thinking that people who smoke weed are evil. Its ok for me to sit around the house and and get wasted on liquor because jesus said it was. It is not ok for other people to make choices that effect only their lives. Praise jesus.” Bunch of hypocritical bible beaters.
Endlink, I’m agnostic. No bible beating around here.
But I still know enough to know that “drugs are bad”. And illegal.
Undercover Cops? Are you F’n kidding me? What did a guy smoking pot ever do to you? Nothing? Oh okay then F@#k Off!!! If your precious sensabilities are so easily disturbed perhaps you should check yourself into a mental hospital. Our sport isn’t hurting in the least, dope or no dope, in fact it is growing substantially every year. Since you know where all the dope is why don’t you just stay away from it if it bothers you so much. Too bad it isn’t illegal to be a closed minded A-hole. If it were you’d be in prison and the rest of us pot heads could live with a lot less whining Robbie……..
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Does Not Matter (what a perfect name for an unemployed dope smoking college kid) —
I’ve read similar excuses from pedophiles — hey, they’re not hurting “you”, and it “shouldn’t be illegal”, and the rest of you who don’t do it “just don’t understand” those that do.
The fact of the matter is disc golf and smoking a little weed go hand in hand. I have been playing disc golf for almost ten years and I have seen the sport grow. Most of the people that beging the sport start out by going to the local disc golf course in high school or college. Most high school and college kids drink and smoke. If you take away these important aspects to the game you will see less people playing the sport. Kids will be kids let them live their life. I have played in over 50 disc golf tournaments, most of the players will have a drink or a smoke to relax before and after the round. This also goes for the top pros of the sport. You must be ignorant if you think it is not going to happen. I guess i will end this with a quote that I heard from a top pro disc golfer after he won $100 at a tournament. “I am the biggest pothead here and I won by two strokes”.
f@#@ the us goverment
Search my IP address Robbie, i dont care, just gave you my name too, maybe you can come find me and “whip my ass” .
Check it out, I understand that you dont want your children seeing this never ending madness marijuana shannigans, but you need to understand that your childrens generation will be FEASTING on the sweet herb. Pot smoking is never going to stop, and it isnt harmful in ANYWAY (if you use a vaporizer
), so your children seeing this bad stuff…isnt that bad.
So, Robbie, and others against the herb, do some research, roll a spliff, and use your CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS as a goddamn American, duecies
oh yeah, before you can shoot the unemployed stereo type shit, Ive been working since I was 11, so get off my nuts.
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I have to say I’m with Robbie on this one. While potheads are not likely to cause trouble, on the DGC they are still a nuisance. Every time i go and play a round i have to deal with these clowns smoking out on the tee pads and they have no etiquette. I find myself waiting 5-10 minutes for them to finish one hole because they are so baked they don’t realize we are behind them. Even if they do happen to notice your behind their group of seven on every hole waiting on them they don’t offer to let you play through because they are higher than a camel’s pussy and don’t give to shits about the world around them.
Without weed, there would be no disc golf.
wrong, you dope smoking idiot. I’ve played more rounds over the last 10 years than you’ll play in a lifetime. And every last one of them without having to light up a joint.
And, without dope on the disc golf course, rounds for the rest of us who don’t smoke could be played in half the time, as we wouldn’t have to wait for you baked assholes to casually stroll around trying to find your discs and take smoke breaks every third hole.
I would think there would be a better use of precious public resources than to patrol disc golf courses for pot heads. Seems the cops should focus on violent offenses first.
No one ever died smoking weed… ever. Live & let live baby.
Herbie said:
From smoking it? Perhaps, by causing an accident.
However, the money used to purchase it funds the drug cartels that have caused a lot of pain and suffering, on both sides of the border.
People like you, are funding murderous, terrorist organizations.
Hey, lets have the cops patroling the courses instead of in the parking lot preventing vehicle theft. I know I get waaaaay more upset when I see people smoking pot then when I go to my car and the window is broken out and all the cop does is hand me a form like a glorified insurance adjustor.
No2Libs…………I guess you miss Bush…he thought pot was so dangerous that he placed it as #1 on his drug agenda……Then the kids went and got their parents prescription drugs..oh, and crystal meth took over.
I partake. I did the other day. The other day when I was in a crowd and man had a heart attack. When he turned blue and his tounge was sticking out…. I was stoned. Didn’t keep me from performing CPR when no one else would. I saved his life. Doubt his family would care that I was stoned, or place the label of pot head on me.
That you justify, in your mind, the use of illegal drugs isn’t surprising.
You should also be proud of the fact, that you are a valuable customer to the Mexican drug cartels.
Good for you!
The pain and suffering of thousands couldn’t continue without your cash support.
No2Liberals…… Give your neo-conservative bull-smack a rest will ya! Everybody knows that if there weren’t for drug prohibition there would be no drug cartels. If you don’t believe me go to Amsterdam. Anyways I go to a real nice course up in MN with their own police force and people still smoke up there. I choose to toke before I go, so I don’t see what the beg friggin deal is, anyway. Until it is legal I will smoke in private.
Oh and by the way, people are big babies for stereotyping all potheads as unemployed hippies. As well as the reverse “all anti-weed people are bible bashing biggots” Grow up all of you.
SD,
Not neo, just conservative.
As for Amsterdam, that is one Hell hole where I will never be seen. If that is the best example you can give for making it legal here, then you need to get off that shit, pronto.
Best flame war I’ve seen in a while.
The government used to pay farmers to grow hemp during WWII.
Alcohol used to be illegal. People started making alcohol in ’stills’, and others transported the illegal substance to secret places where people drank. Many people who are against legalizing pot, have relatives that were involved in the criminal distillation or transportation of alcohol when it was prohibited.
Marijuana or “hemp” has many different uses, which is why it’s illegal. Hemp can be used for the following:
1. Fuel – Direct competition with the oil companies.
2. Medical – Direct competition with the pharmaceutical companies.
3. Rope – Hemp rope is cheaper to make than synthetic nylon rope made by the Dupont corp. Direct competition with the chemical companies.
4. Clothes – Hemp can be manufactured into clothes. Direct competition with the cotton industry.
5. Food – Marijuana seeds are found in commercial bird seed for parakeets, finches, etc.
After more than half a century of marijuana being illegal, people are realizing that monopolies are bad, and that hemp has many viable uses. Marijuana was outlawed in the early 20th century when many big businesses realized the potential of this plant, and saw it as a threat to their business. They petitioned & paid off government officials to make marijuana illegal.
Marijuana isn’t a danger to individuals who use it, it WAS a danger to big businesses.