Around the NFL Free Agency Thread 2013

[mlmpetert]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

The league is definitely not on board when it comes to marijuana.

Marijuana legalization won't change NFL drug policy - NFL.com

Of course not.... at least yet.

But allowing a player with a well documented medical history of severe and dangerous headaches, who by the course of his employment exposes himself to regular head injuries, to use weed for medical reasons in a state where marijuana is legal could be the first step in the inevitability of gradualness the NFL is likely looking for to keep this thing from turning into a very public legal battle as more and more states legalize the weed.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by mlmpetert

Of course not.... at least yet.

But allowing a player with a well documented medical history of sever and dangerous headaches, who by the course of his employment exposes himself to regular head injuries, to use weed for medical reasons in a state where marijuana is legal could be the first step in the inevitability of gradualness the NFL is likely looking for to keep this thing from turning into a very public legal battle as more and more states legalize the weed.

Yeah that's opening up a pretty big can of worms. Not sure the league wants to even touch that anytime soon.