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A group of former NFL players is using the Super Bowl to push for a new policy on marijuana, saying the substance should be more widely available as an alternative to opioid painkillers. Former Bears quarterback Jim McMahon said pot has helped him numb lingering pain from injuries sustained...

Houston – Marijuana is currently on the list of substances banned by the NFL but several former players are hoping to change that. A cannabis convention was held Wednesday night at the Revention Music Center in Houston ahead of Super Bowl LI and Jim McMahon, former NFL quarterback and...

Boulder, Colo. — It's been nearly 10 years since Jake Plummer retired from football. He still experiences soreness and pain from his neck and shoulders to the soles of his feet. It's an ache that Plummer and many other former and current NFL players have managed for years with the use of...

Seantrel Henderson isn't your typical user. Marijuana serves as a pain reliever for the 24-year-old Buffalo Bills offensive lineman who was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease one year ago. Doctors told Henderson medical marijuana was the best medicine for his inflammatory bowel disease, which caused...

In February, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was asked during the week of Super Bowl 50 about the league's marijuana policy. Across the country, states were legalizing marijuana use in increasing numbers, and former NFL players were increasingly pushing for the league to reconsider marijuana's...

In the last week we've heard from NBA legend Phil Jackson and Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr talking about their own marijuana use and how they think professional sports leagues like the NBA and NFL should change their marijuana policies. Marijuana should not be a banned substance...

Buffalo Bills third-year offensive lineman Seantrel Henderson has just been hit with his second suspension of the season for violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy. What makes this case different is the fact that Henderson's substance abuse offense is for treating his Crohn's disease with...

Tennessee Titans linebacker Derrick Morgan has earned his living with brutal hits on the football field. But the husband and father of two would like to prevent those hits from haunting him in the future. "I love the game. Don't get me wrong. But we didn't know at the time what the inherent...

A group of retired football players and medical professionals are petitioning the NFL to consider marijuana as an alternative to prescription painkillers. Despite the substance's ban in professional sports and federal status as a Schedule 1 drug on par with heroin, a retired NFL player is...

It's no secret NFL players have abused powerful, addictive painkillers for decades. Just ask them. "When I was playing, if you were on the road, you'd get on the plane home and there would be two beers in the seat pocket in front of you and the trainers were coming down the aisle with...

Will the continued expansion of voter-approved marijuana legalization that showed up this week during the elections change anything for the National Football League and its pot ban? Not according to representatives of the NFL and the players' union. However, ESPN.com says the NFLPA won't...

Most Americans now want to legalize marijuana. This is apparently also true of a majority of professional football players. ESPN reported Wednesday that nearly two-thirds of players in the NFL say the use of chemical painkillers would go down if they were allowed to use marijuana instead. "In...

In an extensive new piece from ESPN, former NFL player Eugene Monroe says marijuana helped him get away from what was really hurting him: football. Monroe has already made a name for himself by being very vocal about his preferred use of medical marijuana and his disdain for the NFL's policy...

Pigs get fat, hogs got slaughtered, and employers who unreasonably try to run the private lives of their employees eventually pay for it. Amid efforts to understand why the NFL's TV audience is shrinking, there's one reason that unnecessarily is keeping some of the best young players off the...

"I was sitting in the training room one day and I just watched player after player come in to take a Toradol shot just to practice," says former NFL player Ricky Williams. "I realized if we have to take all this medication, all these pharmaceuticals, just to practice it can't be good for our...

At first blush, football and weed seem culturally antithetical - war enacted on a playing field vs. "Peace and love, let's smoke a joint." But anecdotally speaking, many NFL players smoke pot. It's an open secret that everyone knows about. It's banned by the NFL, but the league only tests before...

Marvin Washington isn't worried about the NFL's marijuana movement, even though the Drug Enforcement Administration recently declined to reclassify cannabis to make it easier for researchers to study pot's potential medical benefits. The former Jets defensive end says the DEA will face much...

Denver - He is an award-winning chef who has prepared injury-healing meals for NFL and NBA stars such as Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups and Von Miller. He is a cannabis connoisseur who teaches people how to prepare nutritious food with marijuana. She is a former corporate executive who...

Marijuana reform is coming to the NFL, Marvin Washington says, but it won't be led by Roger Goodell or his medical advisers. The push to embrace cannabis as a brain and pain medication, the longtime Jets defensive end says, will come from the NFL Players Association. "Whenever there is a...

Last month, offensive tackle Eugene Monroe retired from the NFL at 29 years old, after seven seasons with the Jaguars and Ravens. Monroe's retirement came just a few months after he declared his advocacy for medical marijuana as a way to combat the constant pain that comes with life as an NFL...