News: North Melbourne legend Wayne Carey has responded to reports he will be banned from Crown Resorts premises for two years after being caught with a bag of white powder in a Perth casino last week.

According to The Herald Sun, the 51-year-old was evicted from Crown Burswood on Thursday evening after a zip-lock bag containing a white substance dropped from his pocket onto a gaming room table.

Whoops ... Accidentally spilled out with some dollar bills as he was buying chips. He's already an AFL Legend - but that confirms his party-boy Legendariness as well. (Carey is the same footballer who, as captain, got caught banging the vice-captain's wife in the bathroom at a party - at the VC's house)

Although Carey said it was not a great look, turns out there was a perfectly innocent explanation ...

9 News: Carey last night denied the white powder was illegal, saying it was just crushed up anti-inflammatory drugs he takes for pain-killing purpose.

Carey's Lawyers: Mr Carey is prescribed anti-inflammatories and painkilling medicine to help manage the significant pain caused by debilitating football injuries – including a shoulder that needs replacing and a neck injury that requires three discs to be replaced.

Mr Carey is distressed that the casino actions have led to media attention leaving the public to also wrongly assume the bag contained an illegal drug.

We are considering whether Crown Casino unlawfully discriminated against Mr Carey by excluding him from its premises as a result of a pre-existing disability.

As a North supporter, i totally believe him. This is also serendipitous coz within the Sir Jeremy Farrar rabbit-hole i learned that Wellcome Trust founder made his billions from being the first establishment player to put powder medicines into pill form. Simple, but he was the first to do it. That has been the prevailing trend in western (not eastern - still lots of powders there) medicine ever since.

That's until 2022, when North Melbourne FC Legend, Wayne Carey, reversed the process, by grinding up anti-inflammatory tablets back into a powder-form.

Again, so simple - but no-one'd thought of doing it. I didn't - coz occasionally i take anti-inflammatory pills - never thought about grinding them up, putting the powder in a ziploc bag for a night out at the casino. That's what separates normal people from the pharmaceutical visionaries.

Carey: It was not an illegal substance .. Security didn’t take it. They just said it’s not a great look, I understood that, and we left without incident.

Until it became front-page news ...

THE science is still out on whether crushed tablet is better than normal tablet, but in the meantime i'd also recommend against the practice if you were flying internationally, or doing anything public, really, especially if you've got a reputation of being a Celebrity Coke-head.