Is The NFL Ready To Legalize Weed After The Super ‘Stoner’ Bowl?

Everybody smokes trees in some way, shape or form and in this year’s Super “Stoner” Bowl in New York, it’ll be celebrated as the game features two of the biggest weed cities in the country: Washington and Colorado.

In both Seattle and Denver, marijuana has been decriminalized and is distributed for medicinal purposes which would explain the massive fan turnout mutual love everybody has for each other right now. These people are just stoned and feeling good!

But while fans are able to toke up freely just right outside the stadium and probably in it (watch this Seahawks fan casually hitting his bowl at CenturyLink Field), players themselves have to hold back otherwise face suspensions and fines.

With roughly 99.7 percent of the league blowing loud on a regular basis (that’s not an actual statistic), commissioner Roger Goodell is even mulling the decision allow players to use the herb for medicinal purposes, once it’s fully legalized of course. When asked if his guys would ever have the opportunity to use it for healing, he didn’t exactly rule it out.

“I don’t know what’s going to develop as far as the next opportunity for medicine to evolve and to help either deal with pain or help deal with injuries, but we will continue to support the evolution of medicine,” the commissioner said, via CBSSports.com.

 What’s even more interesting is that according to data from the University of California’s Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, there’s already some proof in the pudding. Mmmm… pudding.

“Reasonable evidence that cannabis is a promising treatment in selected pain syndromes caused by injury or diseases of the nervous system.”

This, aligned with President Obama’s recent admission that weed isn’t any more dangerous than drinking alcohol, is a step forward for NFL players everywhere to get equal smoking rights.
Retired NFL defensive back Hamza Abdullah said it best when he broke down what doctors are doing in the league today. Marijuana could potentially be an x-factor to helping players deal with pain and even cope with mental issues once their playing days are over.

“If you’re 50 and have some ailments, doctors will give you marijuana,” says Abdullah. “If your 26, 27, and play in the NFL, you can’t have marijuana but they’ll give you Vicodin or Percocet.”