Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones supports the NFL and its offer to work in tandem with the NFL Players Association to study the potential use of marijuana as a pain management tool for players, as reported by The Washington Post earlier this week.
The league’s new approach follows Jones’ efforts at the NFL owners meeting in April to lobby owners to drop the league’s prohibition on marijuana use all together.
“I agree with what the NFL is doing,” Jones said. “There is real fertile ground there. It is a labor issue that like several things, not just that one, I understand the sensitivity about that particular issue.