Report: NFL formally offers to study marijuana as pain management option with NFLPA stat : ProFootballTalk

However, the NFL appears ready to at least explore the possibility of marijuana use as a medical tool with the help of the NFL Players Association. According to Mark Maske of the Washington Post, the NFL sent a letter to the NFLPA offering to work jointly to study the possibility of marijuana use as a pain management tool. The NFL has been less open to the idea with commissioner Roger Goodell calling it "addictive" and "unhealthy" as recently as April. Both Jerry and Stephen Jones of the Dallas Cowboys said they wanted the NFL to begin re-examining its stance on marijuana use earlier this year. Ultimately, the decision on how to proceed as a league would be the result of a collective bargaining process with the players' union.




Maybe the NFL is finally coming around to the idea of players using medicinal marijuana. The NFLPA has already begun a study to determine whether players should use marijuana for medicinal purposes. The Washington Post reported Monday that the league has offered to work with the NFLPA to study the potential use of marijuana as a pain management tool for players. That study could lead to the NFL loosening its hard stance against the drug, which has been legalized for medicinal purposes in 29 states and the District of Columbia. "I do think that issues of addressing it more in a treatment and less punitive measure is appropriate," Smith said at the time.


(Phil Long/Associated Press)IRVINE, Calif. — The NFL has written to the NFL Players Association offering to work in tandem to study the potential use of marijuana as a pain management tool for players, according to people familiar with the situation. And I think it's important to not simply assume recreation is the reason it's being used."The union separately formed a pain management committee to study, among other things, marijuana as a pain management tool for players. The league's letter outlined a few areas for potential research that included pain management for both acute and chronic conditions. [NFL players fight pain with medical marijuana: 'Managing it with pills was slowly killing me']The union previously has indicated that it is, on its own, studying marijuana as a pain management tool and, in what it considers a separate but related issue, holds interest in making further changes to the league's rules regarding recreational marijuana use by players. The league and union agreed in 2014 to modifications of the drug policy regarding marijuana.


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