Sinister
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I am aware of this. However, legally, you can link THC levels to legal tolerance laws. I mean, the same exact argument was used with alcohol and they failed.
What's really funny here is that my position of the NFL not allowing the use of weed but instead, adopting a position where Cannabinoids and THC can be prescribed would essentially solve the problem for the very same reasons you outline here. By taking an active approach on health through the use of prescriptions, rather then adopting a position where the NFL welcomes smoking weed, it really solves the problem IMO. It allows the NFL to save face with the public, it puts a good face on the league and it makes testing irrelevant because you are going to have traces in your body if you use the prescriptions right? I mean, if a player gets caught with weed, then yeah, they will be in trouble with the league or the law but it would allow the players to get around it and give an out for the NFL as well. That's really what I see as the solution the NFL would probably like to see but what do I know?
As I've explained many times in this thread weed/Marijuana cannot be prescribed, it is federally a schedule 1 drug:
http://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/article/2548
How do you prescribe medical marijuana?
First of all, you can't actually “prescribe” it—you can “authorize” or “recommend” that a patient obtain it.
“The core of this problem lies in the Federal Government’s stance that marijuana is an illegal substance in all cases and has ‘no currently accepted medical use (Controlled Substances Act, 1970),’” Dr. Levine said. Cannabis is a Schedule I controlled substance and, under the Controlled Substances Act, physicians cannot legally prescribe a Schedule I controlled substance.
However, a federal court decision found that while a prescription for cannabis is unlawful, a recommendation is allowed. A recommendation is not considered an order, but a communication between doctor and patient on benefits and harms. As such, states can step in to establish protections for patients who receive recommendations, along with a regulatory framework for the production and distribution of cannabis.