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The players presenting the lawsuit are alleging that all 32 professional NFL teams, from coaches to medical staff, illegally obtained and administered pharmaceutical pain pills to players to keep them on the field when they are seriously hurt.
Jackson is unashamed to talk about his cannabis use as a player. He says he resorted to cannabis because he didn't want to take prescription opiates and end up addicted to pain pills as many former players do.
Former Broncos tight end Nate Jackson thinks that it won't be long before the NFL has to remove marijuana from its list of banned substances. Jackson, who admitted to self-medicating with marijuana during his playing days to avoid a post-NFL addiction to painkillers, says marijuana can help players deal with the physical and psychological pain, including head injuries.
In California, medical marijuana patients are banned from receiving organ transplants. However, it looks like there might finally be some progress in the works to solve a terrible technicality that is keeping sick people from getting help.
If we peel back the onion a bit on cannabis and see why players seem to seek it out, I think it can paint a fair image of weed while still keeping league reputation in tact.
In Denver where it is legal to give away cannabis for free, hundreds of veterans lined up to enter Operation Grow4Vets largest event to date where free cannabis was distributed.
While cannabis use in the general population has showed a steady increase (unsurprisingly in our softening cannabis culture), it has leveled off among teen users.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of August 27, 2014:
While prescription painkillers cause thousands of overdose deaths each year, no one has ever died from a marijuana overdose. But is it even possible to overdose on weed? The answer is no, according to the National Cancer Institute. And here’s why:
The enactment of medicinal marijuana laws is associated with significantly lower state-level opioid overdose fatalities, by an average of 24.8%, according to data published online today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine.
Orlando attorney John Morgan compared medical marijuana and oxycontin, noting that marijuana is a safer, non-addictive substitute for the popular pain pills
A Mayo Clinic study found nearly 70% of Americans take prescription drugs, with antibiotics, antidepressants and painkillers being the most...
A great bud-tender pointed me in the direction of Butane Hash Oil, more commonly listed in dispensaries as BHO, Wax, Shatter, etc.
An FDA panel voted to recommend that pain relievers containing hydrocodone be moved from Schedule III to Schedule II of the Controlled Substances Act.
A pregnant Oklahoma woman who went to a hospital seeking treatment for extreme pain was instead jailed after police found pain pills on her and died in jail
Ah, blessed opium, the beloved bringer of sweet relief from pain, of the body or the soul, the deliverer of bliss and sweet surcease from suffering. From...
More than two-thirds (68%) of New Hampshire voters think the state should enact a law allowing seriously ill patients to use medical marijuana if their doctors recommend it, according to a survey…
The administration of vaporized, low THC cannabis is associated with reduced analgesia in subjects with neuropathic pain according to clinical trial data...
