News: How new NFL mental health policy helps Randy Gregory

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He means that the league office, and its years of rulings that a "sick'' player should be suspended from work and banned from his place of employment, doesn't make as much sense as that employer being directly hands-on in a player's recovery.​

Gregory and others could probably legitimately sue the NFL under the ADA. "Reasonable accommodation".
https://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/accommodation.html
 

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Nobody knows for certain if and/or when the NFL might see fit to revoke their harsh, archaic ways of dealing with marijuana. Hopefully, it should be as soon as possible to rectify the misgivings of the past. Their favoring of prescribing opioids in preference to cannabis in its treatment is clearly as absurd as their punishment for its use is overly harsh and sadly, highly counterproductive as well.

Marijuana is just like any other drug, it can be used and it can be abused. They have their uses in the treatment of illnesses. Unfortunately, they are more often categorized by those who choose to abuse them. And not everyone who says they need it for medical purposes are being truthful. Some just like to get high.
 

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Unfortunately, it's run by a bunch of old guys who think this was a documentary.

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I saw that flick a while back on TV. It's a dumb version of how they wanted to depict "reefer madness," around the 30s to early forties.

It's simply good for a laugh nowadays and that's about it. Many decades ago, they ran this film for high school kids to scare them. ;)
 
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Are you joking

You have one test a year and if you pass you can smoke til you choke

You have to stop for a month in March or July when there is very little pain

If you do manage to fail this open book test then you have to stay clean for 90 days to go back to zero

If not then you have to fail 3 more times to miss 4 games.......the horror

Less than 1% of the NFL playes are caught by this policy

No joke -- if it's true, I had no idea that testing for weed was really done that rarely.

That'd be all the more reason to abandon testing for weed if it's actually that lame!

Nevertheless, I still think the way the NFL treats it is archaic and harshly punished.

Submitting offenders to taking opioids isn't any positive way to correct the problem.
 
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Marijuana is just like any other drug, it can be used and it can be abused. They have their uses in the treatment of illnesses. Unfortunately, they are more often categorized by those who choose to abuse them. And not everyone who says they need it for medical purposes are being truthful. Some just like to get high.

NFL teams have capable medical people who could be appointed to deal with prescribing marijuana if it's needed for legitimate medicinal reasons. It could also effectively be done under the strict supervision of the team's medical people who prescribe them and not to be overdone. Let's also be aware that opioids can also be abused and be considerably more harmfully overdone as well.
 
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Good Lord, If I had been born in that body and Athletic gift, Dallas would have had another Lilly on their hands.
Hell Yeah! That dude was born with a winning lottery ticket. People daydream about having the physical talent he was born with.
 

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NFL teams have capable medical people who could be appointed to deal with prescribing marijuana if it's needed for legitimate medicinal reasons. It could also effectively be done under the strict supervision of the team's medical people who prescribe them and not to be overdone. Let's also be aware that opioids can also be abused and be considerably more harmfully overdone as well.

I'm going to say it once again medical marijuana cannot be PRESCRIBED; not in California not in Washington.

So long as it is a schedule 1 drug it is illegal for any Doctor to prescribe marijuana.

Doctors can recommend marijuana, but it can't be prescribed.
 

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Marijuana is just like any other drug, it can be used and it can be abused. They have their uses in the treatment of illnesses. Unfortunately, they are more often categorized by those who choose to abuse them. And not everyone who says they need it for medical purposes are being truthful. Some just like to get high.
See you are still on the reefer madness BS. Marijuana is nothing like man made drugs such as meth/coke/heroin. You can not overdose on it. There is no physical addiction to it. You don't beat your wife after smoking it like many do while drinking alcohol. The medical benefits from it are astounding. You don't have to be actually sick to benefit from it. Big deal if people want to get high from it. THC is only 1 of many cannibiniods that all have many benefits with little to no negative side effects.

Google endocannabinoid system.
 

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I'm going to say it once again medical marijuana cannot be PRESCRIBED; not in California not in Washington.

So long as it is a schedule 1 drug it is illegal for any Doctor to prescribe marijuana.

Doctors can recommend marijuana, but it can't be prescribed.

I'm saying if and when things change, that it could be done that way. It's not legal to use it in Texas either -- medicinally or not. Only in 33 states and also in DC is medicinal use allowed, according to what I've Googled. Even in states that allow it for medicinal uses, the stipulations differ.
 
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I'm saying if and when things change, that it could be done that way. It's not legal to use it in Texas either -- only in 33 states and also in DC, according to what I've Googled. Even in states that allow it, the stipulations differ.

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I just want everyone to understand that in order to be able to use "medical marijuana" it will take the US government removing the Schedule I designation, that it currently has.
 

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The thing is, marijuana is not good for people with bipolar disorder as it can increase the number of psychotic episodes and prevent other medications from working effectively. Randy needs to stop self-medicating and let his doctors drive the bus.
 

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The thing is, marijuana is not good for people with bipolar disorder as it can increase the number of psychotic episodes and prevent other medications from working effectively. Randy needs to stop self-medicating and let his doctors drive the bus.

Neither are cigarettes and alcohol but they aren't designated as "schedule 1"!
 

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So what many of you are saying is that while it is ok for ordinary Americans to be drug tested for weed, and be fired, disciplined , or not hired,
for testing positive for weed, but NFL players especially Cowboy players should be above all that, and simply not be tested at all for weed ??

And that certain players who say they have mental issues which require them to smoke weed on regular basis lol should be exempt from
testing for weed!
None of that is allowed for rest of America, but hey these guys play football and we like football, and they can help our team be better,
so lets just excuse them from something the rest of Americans have to deal with.

Guys who make millions per year to play a sport , should not be subjected to something as awful as a drug test!!
And if they test positive they should not really be disciplined.
 
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