Huffington Post: NFL Players Use Marijuana To ‘Cope With The Pain’ As League Drug Rules Draw Scrutiny

Medical Marijuana Inc. was mentioned in an article by Huffington Post that discussing the idea that NFL players can use marijuana to cope with pain that comes as a result from playing in their league.

Different medicines work differently from person to person,” Vandrey said. “There’s pretty good science that shows marijuana does have pain relieving properties. Whether it’s a better pain reliever than the other things available has never been evaluated.”

Washington, who is part of the concussion lawsuit, is working with a bio-pharmaceutical and phyto-medical company called KannaLife Sciences, which recently received licensing from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a drug to treat concussions using derivatives from medical marijuana.

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