NFL Drug Testing Player Survey

[Mavric]

[NM11046]

There was a good story on this on HBO Sports not too long ago. Seems to me that if we can curb opiod use/addiction with pot that's an easy switch to make. People are way too uptight with the stigma of what it really is.

[admo]

Interesting but not really surprising. If there wasn't any testing I wonder what % would smoke the reefer before a game?

[GSG]

This guy wants to change the NFL's policy on cannabis and get players off painkillers.

 

Eugene Monroe Has A Football Problem

 

The retired lineman uses cannabis because he says it heals the hurt from a lifetime playing the game. This is his crusade to convince the NFL he's right.

 

 

Editor's note: This story contains mature content.

 

So what's it like?" I ask Eugene Monroe.

"What's it like?" He's working out in his basement. The music is loud. From some kind of high-tech rack, he's picking up dumbbells that appear immobile in their sheer mass but yield to his grip like Excalibur.

 

"Yeah, what's it like?"

 

It's not much of question straight. But then, I'm not straight. Neither is Monroe. He comes over and wipes his face with a towel.

 

"It's one of those experiences you have to go through to understand," he says. "I could use as many words as I could find to describe it, but the feeling it produces, I don't think we have a word for it."

 

I sit there, nodding, listening to the music. It takes me awhile to ask, "So what does it sound like?"

 

He's doing curls and finishes his set before answering. He is an enormous human being, deliberate and unhurried in his movements and his speech.

 

"You know that crisp sound where you're watching an Olympic diver hit the water, where it's like a blade slicing through the water? Well, you have that smooth, clean sound, and at the same time it's like someone has a sawed-off shotgun -- pow! It's amazing."

 

I nod again, wondering whether he has the best insights into football I've heard, or just the best weed I've smoked. "Do you see things out there that, like, you can't explain? Things that, like, defy gravity?"

 

Because he's sitting down, I can see crinkles start spreading across his shaved and sopping scalp. "I've played with some very good players," he says. "And the way we blocked some guys ... you shouldn't be able to do that to people. I mean, it's not right -- and it doesn't exist anywhere else but on the field. I mean, really disrespecting and hurting people."

 

And then a pause. "It was awesome."

 

Monroe is a very serious man, with a very serious cause. He generally speaks in a commanding monotone even when he's joking, and he is relentlessly on message. Now, though, he begins to laugh, and so do I, because I've always wanted to know what professional football is really like, in the middle of the maelstrom, and now I do:

It's like drugs, man.