OAKLAND, Calif. -- Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerrs willingness to speak out in favor of sports leagues permitting medicinal marijuana use to help cope with pain hasnt resonated with everyone.Phoenix Suns?coach Earl Watson said he understands where Kerr is coming from but is concerned that Kerrs message about embracing marijuana might be taken the wrong way by youngsters.I think our rhetoric on it has to be very careful because you have a lot of kids where Im from thats reading this, and they think [marijuana use is] cool, Watson told ESPN on Saturday after the Suns 138-109 loss?to the Warriors. Its not cool. Where Im from, you dont get six fouls to foul out. You get three strikes. One strike leads to another. Im just being honest with you, so you have to be very careful with your rhetoric.Born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, Watson grew up surrounded by poverty, violent crimes, drug addicts and gangs. He has a long list of childhood friends who are either incarcerated or dead. From his experience over the years, he said he witnessed many close to him who smoked marijuana, which he believes served as a gateway to hard-core drugs.Watson said he doesnt feel that the coaching profession is the appropriate line of work for publicly advocating the benefits of consuming marijuana as a pain reliever.I think it would have to come from a physician -- not a coach, Watson said. And for me, Ive lived in that other life [of crime and drugs]. Im from that area, so Ive seen a lot of guys go through that experience of using it and doing other things with that were both illegal. And a lot of those times, those guys never make it to the NBA, they never make it to college, and somehow it leads to something else, and they never make it past 18.So when we really talk about it and we open up that, I call it that slippery slope. We have to be very careful on the rhetoric and how we speak on it and how we express it and explain it to the youth.Throughout the interview, Watson continually referenced the youth in explaining his stance on marijuana.Ive never been a fan of the use, but Im also not a medical doctor, Watson said. So for the kids who are reading this and they might take the headlines and run with it, dont run anywhere with it. Understand that if youre from an environment or social area where a lot of luck and a lot of blessings is your only way out, you cannot risk that opportunity ever. Ever. Its just the way it is. Its not the same everywhere. I dont know as far as the pain [and how marijuana could help], but I think we have to be careful how we present that to the public.Kerr acknowledged on a CSN Bay Area podcast that NFL players have it the worst when it comes to Vicodin and other forms of painkillers being distributed to them while they recover from injury. 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The test was connected to the Olympics, the IWF said without specifying exactly when it was taken.An IWF statement originally listed Sincraian among a group of lifters who had been disqualified from the Olympics, but later clarified his case was not yet closed.There is no final decision as regards the measures and/or sanctions relating to (Sincraians) Rio Olympic Games participation yet, the IWF said.Decisions on Olympic disqualifications and medals are up to the International Olympic Committee.Sincraian returned last year from a two-year doping ban for the banned steroid stanozolol. He could face an eight-year ban for a second offense, in line with usual IWF practice.If the IOC decides to reallocate the medals, Sincraians bronze would pass to fourth-placed Denis Ulanov of Kazakhstan, whose entire team was almost banned from the Olympics over repeated drug test failures.ddddddddddddRomanian Weightlifting Federation president Nicu Vlad said Sincraian had been under a provisional suspension since Sept. 30 over the failed test, and that it could be linked to supplements he had been taking.He was asked if he still had (the supplements), because it would be good for them to be analyzed, and he said he didnt, Vlad told Romanian news agency Agerpres.The entire Bulgarian and Russian weightlifting teams were banned from competing in Rio due to repeated doping cases, while lifters from Poland, Taiwan, Cyprus and Mongolia failed tests either during or shortly before the games.Weightlifting has been rocked by dozens of failed drug tests from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics which turned up when samples were retested by the IOC this year using modern technology. 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