MLB removes Pot from banned list ... NFL next?

[TheAdultintheRoom]

Me personally, I'd rather my team not be high.

 

[goheels22002]

That's good. Keep up with the times. Jackie Bradley, Jr. could benefit from a gummy once in a while. He's fundamentally a good hitter but needs to go up there and just hack away when he slips into one of his slumps. Maybe a little reggae on the headphones.

 

[Drewski]

Me personally, I'd rather my team not be high.

Just for grins.

1. Not testing for it doesn’t mean everyone will run out and start consuming. Just like in the non sports world, there are a lot of people who partake regardless of the legality of it.

2. The NFL currently tests once a year, so merely a T break is all that is currently needed to pass their test; even at the crazy low thresholds the NFL has in place for THC.

3. You may want to just find a new hobby. The number of ex players who have come out and basically said “I was high every game” is pretty alarming Id imagine for people with 1950s mentalities.

As for the OP question, I figure they will use it as a leverage point in the next negotiations. The NFL is anything but progressive on these types of things because they think it aligns to the fan base’s wishes.

If they thought it would impact the bottom line because Bubba Bud Heavy and his boys in Greensboro NC would start tuning out, they would probably not take this leap.

Baseball is a dying sport and has less to lose

 

[IcyPatriot]

Me personally, I'd rather my team not be high.

Your team has been partially high for years ... they all have some players high during games.

 

[Drewski]

Your team has been partially high for years ... they all have players high during games.

Bingo.

Not to mention players higher on stuff waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay stronger than THC

 

[upstater1]

The most interesting thing for THC is what it does for anxiety. This has a huge impact on the body, and now that medical marijuana is popping up all over the place in neurology, they are discovering a lot of uses for it that they couldn't have imagined.

One wonders how much it saved the country in medical costs in all those years that it was banned.

That being said, there is so little out there in terms of scientific studies that it's a little scary. It's being proscribed without even knowing how it interacts with antibiotics specifically. No studies have been done.

 

[Drewski]

One wonders how much it saved the country in medical costs in all those years that it was banned.

That being said, there is so little out there in terms of scientific studies that it's a little scary. It's being proscribed without even knowing how it interacts with antibiotics specifically. No studies have been done.

OT: The War on Drugs has cost us somewhere around $1 Trillion since Tricky ****...that plus any lost tax revenue over the same time; which would be a pretty penny I’d guess (Nevermind the hard to quantify human costs) would make it a high bar to clear to equal out the medical costs of it. I mean if it were legal all this time, how do patent a naturally occurring plant?

Studies are/were limited because it’s been a Schedule 1 since 1970.

 

[venecol]

So yesterday MLB removed marijuana, cannabis, thc, etc from its banned list. The news was a little shocking as there really didn't seem to be any quid pro quo for that kind of concession...

So, anyone think the NFL will be "de-crimializing" marijuana any time soon? Something like that happening might entice a 6'6", 270 pound TE to make a return in 2020...

If the NFL does allow it, what would the players have to give up? Add a 17th game to the schedule? That seems to be one of the big items on the owners agenda... Think that trade off is worth it?

Won't matter because Goodell will insist it can only be consumed in suppositories.

 

[DaBronxPats14]

If the NFLPA is gonna trade anything they should do away with Roger being judge and jury on player misconduct...

This, and Executioner.
Forget about any bargaining, NFLPA should just insist it, goodell* is an accident that already has happened on multiple occasions.

 

[thecore762]

If CBD became legal in the NFL I think we could see a lot less depression/ anxiety for players, also could help recovery and help vs pain.

I don’t do pot or smoke or use cbd but I can see the benefits of it.
It has been well documented.

 

[maust]

They should just do it because it is the right thing to do, not in exchange for more concussions each year.

How's that line of thinking been reflected by the league & owners up 'til now? 'Granted a 100 years is a small time window as empires go but you'd have to say doing the right thing doesn't exactly seem like one of its fundamental tenets so far. 'They' should do a lot of things because they are the clear and obvious right thing to do but hey, business is busine$$.

As fans we should never lose sight of the fact that we are the only ones to whom it is sport. To everyone else involved, be it players, owners, team/league employees or media, it is a business.

 

[maust]

He looks much skinnier.

So much for the pot being the gateway drug to Doritos addiction theory either that or Gronk is genetically immune to their effect. Without further testing we can not reasonably decry the claims of Dr @fnordcircle

 

[neuronet]

How's that line of thinking been reflected by the league & owners up 'til now? 'Granted a 100 years is a small time window as empires go but you'd have to say doing the right thing doesn't exactly seem like one of its fundamental tenets so far. 'They' should do a lot of things because they are the clear and obvious right thing to do but hey, business is busine$$.

As fans we should never lose sight of the fact that we are the only ones to whom it is sport. To everyone else involved, be it players, owners, team/league employees or media, it is a business.

I had a whole thing about how the thought of them doing the right thing was so ludicrous that I should add a smiley face, but I deleted it because I don't think cynicism should be the norm -- we shouldn't let them determine baseline.

 

[TB_Helmet]

I wonder how DW Toys feels about this news?

The most interesting thing for THC is what it does for anxiety. This has a huge impact on the body, and now that medical marijuana is popping up all over the place in neurology, they are discovering a lot of uses for it that they couldn't have imagined.

One wonders how much it saved the country in medical costs in all those years that it was banned.

That being said, there is so little out there in terms of scientific studies that it's a little scary. It's being proscribed without even knowing how it interacts with antibiotics specifically. No studies have been done.

I can personally attest that antibiotics are still effective even if you’re smoking pot while taking them.

 

[BaconGrundleCandy]

The most interesting thing for THC is what it does for anxiety. This has a huge impact on the body, and now that medical marijuana is popping up all over the place in neurology, they are discovering a lot of uses for it that they couldn't have imagined.

One wonders how much it saved the country in medical costs in all those years that it was banned.

That being said, there is so little out there in terms of scientific studies that it's a little scary. It's being proscribed without even knowing how it interacts with antibiotics specifically. No studies have been done.

Some info

Can You Smoke Weed While on Antibiotics? High Times Answers

 

[lancerman]

Kraft will undoubtedly be the first owner to open a cannabis shop in the stadium

 

[PP2]

The most interesting thing for THC is what it does for anxiety. This has a huge impact on the body, and now that medical marijuana is popping up all over the place in neurology, they are discovering a lot of uses for it that they couldn't have imagined.

One wonders how much it saved the country in medical costs in all those years that it was banned.

That being said, there is so little out there in terms of scientific studies that it's a little scary. It's being proscribed without even knowing how it interacts with antibiotics specifically. No studies have been done.

Guess who's leading the fight in trying to keep marijuana banned?

If you guessed Big Pharma, you guessed correctly.

It's a pathetic contradiction that CADCA and the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, and Drug Free Americac are heavily reliant on funding from pharmaceutical companies, like Purdue and Pfizer.

 

[venecol]

Kraft will undoubtedly be the first owner to open a cannabis shop in the stadium

Right next to the massage parlor.

 

[primetime]

If CBD became legal in the NFL I think we could see a lot less depression/ anxiety for players, also could help recovery and help vs pain.

I don’t do pot or smoke or use cbd but I can see the benefits of it.
It has been well documented.

The benefits are completely overblown by advocates who decided that making medical claims about it would lead to legalization in a way that saying it's a totally fine recreational drugs wouldn't. As someone noted, its illegality has made decent studies impossible, so a lot of what's claimed about CBD or weed from a health perspective is basically modern snake oil. That doesn't mean it's bad, but it does mean that it probably doesn't do anything at all (other than, in the case of THC, get you high, which dulls pain and can help sleep and such). There's some small evidence CBD has some positive effects in various sub-pops with certain chronic conditions but those studies haven't yet been replicated and it's unclear if they're generalizable.

I support full legalization and expungement of marijuana-related crimes, to be clear, so I'm not grinding a political ax here. Alcohol's much worse for you than is weed, to say nothing pf opioids, which are rampantly abused in the NFL with the blessings of team medical staffs. I know it's the political strategy of advocates, but weed doesn't need to be a miracle drug to be perfectly acceptable as a recreational one. But the ostensible health benefits of weed or CBD are far from anything close to "well-documented" no matter what Gronk claims.

 

[upstater1]

I wonder how DW Toys feels about this news?



I can personally attest that antibiotics are still effective even if you’re smoking pot while taking them.

Oh, it's not that they're not effective. It's that they become more dangerous to you. CBD is metabolized by the same exact pathways that most antibiotics are metabolized. The theory is that when the liver enzymes that break down CBD are spent, the antibiotic will stay in your system longer, effectively doubling the dose of the antibiotic.

Researchers are pretty sure this will be the case with CBD and antibiotics but there have been no clinical studies on it yet.