{"id":10407,"date":"2014-01-16T19:37:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T19:37:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-16T19:37:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T19:37:24","slug":"will_the_nfl_go_to_pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/01\/16\/will_the_nfl_go_to_pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the NFL Go to Pot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/55317\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: So the commissioner of the National Football League, Roger Goodell on Fox News &#8212; well, they reported it four days ago &#8212; said that NFL might be open to medical marijuana use for NFL players.  Right now if you test positive for it, you\u2019ve got a problem.  You run afoul of the league\u2019s substance abuse policy and you could be suspended, you could be warned, any number of things. But now in California and Colorado it\u2019s legal.  Colorado, is it legal for recreational purposes, too. Yeah, it\u2019s just medical I think so far in California.  <\/line><BR\/>But see, here\u2019s the thing.  There\u2019s a football team in Colorado, the Denver Mannings, and they\u2019re playing the New England Bundchens Sunday in the playoff championship game. It\u2019s a question that has popped up.  Goodell was in New York, one of the pre-Super Bowl media &#8212; I guess a press conference of sorts.  And he was asked about the possibility of allowing players to smoke marijuana for medicinal reasons in states where it\u2019s legal.  He didn\u2019t rule it out.  He said, &#8220;I don\u00c2\u2019t know what\u00c2\u2019s 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.&#8221;<\/line><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_86063\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/NFLMarijuana.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>So what else are they gonna do?  I mean, if it becomes legal &#8212; see, up to now everybody has believed that there are some deleterious mental effects.  Not just when you\u2019re high, but that they linger, they destroy ambition.  I mean, I don\u2019t know if any of this is proven.  But some of the contentions about marijuana is it destroys ambition over a long period, promotes laziness.  Of course, it enhances the appetite out the wazoo.  And obviously it has some effects on the human brain.  <\/line><BR\/>Now, the NFL has all kinds of stringent substance abuse policies.  But have you noticed that there is no substance abuse policy for opiates?  And that\u2019s because they\u2019re taken for pain killing reasons during the season.  And they\u2019re looking for anything that could be a substitute to it.  Now, one of the drugs that is a great painkiller, and it\u2019s non-narcotic, it\u2019s called Toradol. In fact, if you\u2019re a sports fan and you hear about a pain killing injection taken by a player before a game to play, and you\u2019ve wondered, &#8220;What is it?  What is this pain killing injection?  What are they taking?&#8221;  It\u2019s Toradol, more than not.  Now, players will tell you it\u2019s liquid Advil.  They\u2019re not shooting up liquid Advil.  It\u2019s Toradol.  And Toradol is a great painkiller, non-narcotic.  <\/line><BR\/>However, you can only take it for five consecutive days.  A responsible pharmacist will not give you any more, a doctor won\u2019t prescribe any more because it really does a number on your liver, being metabolized.  But these guys have been shooting up with this stuff for a long time, and some of them have not known of that aspect.  This is a tough game.  They\u2019re looking for anything they can find that will kill pain, that\u2019s not narcotic, that\u2019s not a drug, substance abuse oriented, and marijuana, to some players, swear by it.  As you know, there are people that swear by it, not just pain killing, but enhancing recovery and this kind of thing.  So the league is gonna have to look into this, because it\u2019s starting to become legal now for medicinal reasons.  <\/line><img id=\"eZObject_86070\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/NFLPayton.jpg\"\/><BR\/>You\u2019re gonna have, my guess is, a lot of players in free agency are gonna want to end up playing for the Mannings in Denver, and you\u2019re gonna have a lot of players who are gonna want to play for the Fort\u2019iners or the Chargers, even the Raiders.  Now, pot does have effects on the brain.  Can the NFL guarantee that it doesn\u2019t if they eventually legalize it?  Can they guarantee that it does not have negative effects on the brain?  And if they can\u2019t, then why flirt with condoning it?  I\u2019m just asking here as a citizen and as &#8212; (interruption) Well, yeah, it\u2019s legal, but so is alcohol and the league doesn\u2019t allow you to take it before games.  I mean, some teams on the road, the hotels are required to remove all liquor from the mini-bars.  That\u2019s right.  It\u2019s in the contract rider.  I kid you not.  <\/line><BR\/>Do you know that &#8212; I think I\u2019m right about this.  I know I was at one time.  I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s been relaxed or not.  Beer is not permitted on charter flights in the National Football League, for the flight home or the flight to the game. I know I was right about that at one point.  Now, this is not to say the guys don\u2019t sneak the stuff aboard themselves, but it is not offered, it cannot be.  It used to be.  I mean, it was in the milk dispenser in the Raiders locker room.  Now, if just one study exists that finds negative consequences of marijuana, will a plaintiff attorney sue the league in the future if they legalize it?  You know how litigious this has become. All this concussion business.  They\u2019re just scared to death of this stuff in the league, and now they\u2019ve gotta deal with this potential mass legalization of marijuana.  <\/line><BR\/>I think the only thing you can do is have players sign waivers acknowledging the risks in playing football and admitting that there are unknowns and indemnifying the teams. How would you test for marijuana?  I mean, before the game, you know, test if you got a player high.  All you do, open a bag of Cheetos and offer it to him.  Watch the pregame meal.  Just open a bag of Cheetos and pass it around. Take a look if somebody starts scarfing \u2019em, and you\u2019ll know.  I think it\u2019s a fascinating thing.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: So the commissioner of the National Football League, Roger Goodell on Fox News &#8212; well, they reported it four days ago &#8212; said that NFL might be open to medical marijuana use for NFL players. Right now if you test positive for it, you\u2019ve got a problem. 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