Goodell: NFL will "continue to evaluate" medical marijuana

NEW YORK -- Although the sport's current collective bargaining agreement with players forbids the use of marijuana as a pain reliever, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said he will continue to evaluate the drug's potential balanced against possible addiction issues.

"We'll continue to follow the medicine," Goodell said Friday at his annual pre-Super Bowl news conference. "Our experts right now are not indicating that we should change our policy in any way. We are not actively considering that at this point in time. But if it goes down the road sometime, that's something that we would never take off the table."

NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith said Thursday the league and union have had preliminary discussions about medicinal marijuana, but it would have to be included in the CBA.

Goodell said Friday that he liked the current policy and quipped, "I am randomly tested, and I'm happy to say that I am clean."

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"… happy to say that I am clean."