{"id":821720,"date":"2018-06-20T14:22:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T18:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=821720"},"modified":"2018-06-22T02:43:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T06:43:34","slug":"nick-young-has-interesting-take-on-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/nick-young-has-interesting-take-on-cocaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Young believes cocaine should be legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warriors guard Nick &#8220;Swaggy P&#8221; Young has provided fans with plenty of entertaining (and sometimes controversial) moments over the years &#8212; both on and off the court.<\/p>\n<p>But what he recently said while outside of a Los Angeles nightclub really takes the cake.<\/p>\n<p>Young was hanging out outside of 1OAK on Tuesday, when he was approached by a TMZ cameraman. The Warriors guard was then asked for his thoughts on Canada legalizing marijuana, but he went in quite a different direction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want people to pass cocaine,&#8221; Young <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2018\/06\/20\/nick-young-cocaine\/\">said<\/a>. &#8220;Everybody needs to do cocaine.&#8221;<\/p>\n[protected-iframe id=&#8221;7affc3d293d0457c2bcf3831d26d03a9-142507471-18702721&#8243; info=&#8221;\/\/cdnapisec.kaltura.com\/p\/591531\/sp\/59153100\/embedIframeJs\/uiconf_id\/6740162\/partner_id\/591531?iframeembed=true&amp;playerId=kaltura-player-9999999999-43183013852283490&amp;entry_id=0_wm5qdbmn&#8221; width=&#8221;560&#8243; height=&#8221;395&#8243; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243;]\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that the cameraman didn&#8217;t expect that type of response from Young. We really never know what he will say next.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, cocaine is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dea.gov\/druginfo\/ds.shtml\">listed<\/a> as a Schedule II drug by the Drug Enforcement Administration, so we don&#8217;t expect to see it legalized anytime soon &#8212; if ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warriors guard Nick &#8220;Swaggy P&#8221; Young has provided fans with plenty of entertaining (and sometimes controversial) moments over the years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":821722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[605048737,703639074,230171385],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nick Young believes cocaine should be legal - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/nick-young-has-interesting-take-on-cocaine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nick Young believes cocaine should be legal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/nick-young-has-interesting-take-on-cocaine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-06-20T18:22:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-06-22T06:43:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/usatsi_10890454-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/nick-young-has-interesting-take-on-cocaine\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/nick-young-has-interesting-take-on-cocaine\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Nick Young believes cocaine should be legal\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-06-20T18:22:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-06-22T06:43:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/nick-young-has-interesting-take-on-cocaine\/\"},\"wordCount\":193,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/nick-young-has-interesting-take-on-cocaine\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/usatsi_10890454-scaled.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Featured\",\"NBA News and Rumors\",\"Warriors\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2018\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/nick-young-has-interesting-take-on-cocaine\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/nick-young-has-interesting-take-on-cocaine\/\",\"name\":\"Nick Young believes cocaine should be legal - 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