Ex-NFL QB Jake Plummer's Pot Crusade

(cross-posted from Bleacher Report)
http://thelab.bleacherreport.com/jake-plummer-s-pot-crusade/

How the retired QB is trying to save the NFL with medical marijuana

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Plummer is a leading advocate for the medical marijuana movement. But despite the rugged setting of his photo shoot, he is hardly a lone voice in the wilderness. Players such as former Ravens tackle Eugene Monroe and Titans linebacker Derrick Morgan now stand beside him. So do the mothers of young children whose lives were saved by cannabis-derived chemicals. And former players coping with the debilitating aftermath of their NFL careers. They want the NFL to relax its hard-line stance on cannabis in all its forms and support research into medical marijuana's potential as a neuroprotectant, a substance that can protect (or even repair) a damaged brain.

Standing in Plummer's way? A league slow to change, cautious/suspicious lawmakers and a stigma against marijuana and its stereotypical users.
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Plummer frames the football side of the issues succinctly.

"I think the NFL should at least allow an adult man who is putting his body, brain and limbs on the line for entertainment to choose between opioids, which could make him dependent for the rest of his life with lots of side effects, and an all-natural, non-addictive, non-toxic medicine just the same," he says.

"Let's not give these guys an addiction. Let's give them an option."
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http://thelab.bleacherreport.com/jake-plummer-s-pot-crusade/