Thanks, Winder. the NFL, in actions nearly as fast as Congress, is finally considering a ‘less punitive’ approach to marijuana, aka wacky tobacky, pot, reefer, dope, tea, chronic, sticky opiated Thai sticks )a story for another day), Maui Wowie, Acapulco Gold, Panama Red, Semsimilla, and, in a nod to the late great George Carlin, Toledo Windowbox. My favorite was a strain of African pot that a nameless friend has been growing in the hinterlands of coastal CA since the mid 70s.
But I digress. Pot, which has lately been given kudos but former players in easing pain, easing the effects of CTE, and basically doing what the heavy narcotics can do for players, but with MUCH less fallout, is getting a look by the NFL as something that may help instead of being a reason to be fined and/or suspended.
The NFLPA recently formed a pain management committee that is studying, among other things, the use of marijuana to manage pain and whether it should be permissible under the NFL’s policies. This sounds great but then you read something like this from them:
“We have to do a better job of knowing if our players are suffering from other potentially dangerous psychological issues like depression, right? So if I look at this myopically as just a recreational use of marijuana and miss the fact that we might have players suffering from depression, what have I fixed? Worse yet, you may have solved an issue that gets the steady drumbeat in a newspaper but miss an issue like chronic depression . . . where a person theoretically might be able to smoke more weed because it makes them feel better but it’s not curing their depression.”
“So to me, as we’re looking at that front end — and it’s been a long process — the reason why I think it’s more complicated than just making a quick decision about recreational use is we look at these things as a macro-issue. And what we try to do is what a union’s supposed to do: improve the health and safety of our players in a business that sometimes can seriously exacerbate existing physical and mental issues.”
Hmmmm. Is ‘feeling better’ considered a side effect? Or a problem? “Are you in pain? Well, this Percodan won’t fix your sore muscles, but it’ll mask the pain. Take this Zanax. It isn’t highly addictive. Take it for 10 years and then try not to get hooked. Oh yeah, and see the guy over there? The steroids, masking drugs, and HGH he’s not passing out (wink wink) won’t hurt you at all.”
Beyond the fact that there are now 6 teams that play in states that have legalized recreational pot use, the NFLPA is fucking living in the 30s if they think marijuana is more dangerous that the opioids, painkillers, and anti-depressants being handed out like candy to players and team doctors, and the general public for that matter.
Anyhow, this’ll likely pass once Josh Gordon’s suspension ends. Sorry Josh!!!
Forty Niners Forever 
As someone who has a royally fucked up back, I have a little insight into this shit. Unfortunately, the usual stuff they hand out like Vicodin don’t work on me. I feel all the pain but get fuzzy and dumb. What else is new, right?
Unless I have 4 beers and a couple whiskeys behind them. Then, I’m loads of fun . . .
Damn Chuck……I thought you liked milk.
Chuck- The league is gonna have to change it’s stance on pot somewhat. I still don’t want players stoned on the field and really can’t imagine why a player would want to be. I think the possibility for injury would be HIGH and concentration would be skewed. Anyway, my sister smokes medical pot for her arthritis and she’s almost 70, it truly helps her.
OK, last one I promise
I seriously don’t think anyone really wants to play high, Winder. The game is hard enough without your full faculties. I’m sure guys play hung over and even drunk, on speed/coke, etc. but being stoned doesn’t lend itself to football. Or any activity that requires high concentration.
The intent of pot is to ease the post-game aches and pains. And to facilitate the calming of nerves after the intensity of game day.
That’s what I figure too.
And I think there’s some CTE relief as well.
Giants lose another meaningless practice game at Mesa. Yeah six losses in a row ……big deal. The A’s take these games seriously in contrast to the Giants. Still all these teams want you the fan to pay your bucks for these efforts. Blah….blah…blah……blah go the Giants announcers trying to be serious about these games.
I’m me are you you?
But are you high? That is the question.
Well, The Giants take the first 3 and drop the next 6. I know it’s ST but I have seen this before. Hope they work out all the kinks before the season starts. God I love baseball, I think it’s the best game in the world.
Brandon Marshall just got released from the jets. Might be worth taking a look.
I’d rather have Jeffery than Marshall Marshall Marshall.
Can’t get enough WRs though.
His brother Steve sucked as well.
Bye bye Kaepernick, finally, see ya.
Yep see ya wouldn’t want to be ya!!
No stems, no seeds that you don’t need…Acapulco Gold is bad ass weed!!
Great tune (Nelson & Haggard)!
Kap……….good riddance ……damn he was a disappointment as a QB. I hate Harbaugh for bringing him aboard and chasing Smith out. It looked like a good move at the time but in retrospect what a serious decline! It shows how current moves can really backfire over time.
Smith wasn’t going to get it done so they rolled the dice with Kap and it almost worked with the best roster in football. I have no problem with that decision.
Problem with Kap is he has a ton of talent and 2lb of brain and didn’t put the work in to develop according to accounts, add his BS protest and its buh bye ya bum.
Shanny was going to get someone else anyway, Kap and RG knee are similar so he knows the limitations first hand.
Guy can within one play of winning the SB. What about that didn’t you like?
Finally, the Kap chapter is closed. I don’t care what anyone says he was a big distraction. I mean we could stink up a game and all the media would talk about was the knee.