HIGHTIMES.COM | Pot in the NFL

HIGHTIMES.COM | Pot in the NFL

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We already know that pot is nonaddictive. With the evidence mounting that it can aid recovery from brain injury – and provide highly effective stress relief – it’s time to let medical marijuana take the field.

 

By Samantha Nicholas

It happens a few times each NFL season: During a game, a violent collision occurs. Play stops, the fans go quiet, medical personnel gather around the fallen player and TV announcers become deadly serious. Usually they say something like, “This puts it all in perspective.”

 

Puts what in perspective? That pro football players are bigger and faster than ever? That when they collide, the results are frightening? Here’s some perspective: The kinetic energy generated by athletes of this size and speed has out-distanced the ability of the human body to withstand traumatic injury.

 

Certainly, it’s nothing that the National Football League is unaware of. Last June, more than 2,000 former players filed a lawsuit that could potentially cost the league billions. The suit claims that the NFL hid information that linked football-related head trauma to permanent brain injuries. Thousands of former players state that the head trauma they sustained as players has diminished their quality of life, with effects including (but not limited to) chronic physical pain, depression, dementia and suicide.
 The underlying truth of the lawsuit is that the key to winning in the NFL is keeping your players on the field.... [ READ MORE AT LINK]