The NFL's marijuana policy has been discussed here and there on this board. Most recently in the Branch thread.
With the news that Bills OL Seantrel Henderson has been suspended for 10 games, I thought it was worth a new thread strictly about the policy. Henderson was already suspended 4 games this season and reportedly uses it to treat Crohn's disease.
http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2016/11/28/nfl-tackle-seantrel-henderson-faces-suspension-for-using-marijuana-to-treat-crohns-disease/amp/
With the news that Bills OL Seantrel Henderson has been suspended for 10 games, I thought it was worth a new thread strictly about the policy. Henderson was already suspended 4 games this season and reportedly uses it to treat Crohn's disease.
http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2016/11/28/nfl-tackle-seantrel-henderson-faces-suspension-for-using-marijuana-to-treat-crohns-disease/amp/
Is there a reason why the NFL should not at least allow for a medical exemption for marijuana use? What are the odds that they look into in the off season?“Merciful or not, there is no medical exception that the NFL will accept. It doesn’t matter that Seantrel is battling Crohn’s disease, and has had his intestines outside his body,” his agent, Brian Fettner, told ESPN in September. “It doesn’t matter how you take it, if you digest the cannabis, that’s it. And they don’t care.”
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“I’ve got doctors telling me this is the No. 1 medicine that would help your disease,” Henderson told the Buffalo News in October. “You try to tell that to the league, and it seems like they didn’t care too much.”