Hooked Part Two: Jake Plummer battling NFL’s shielded views

In the fist of our three-part series with Jake Plummer, we talked about the crippling drug problem plaguing many current and former NFL players and Jake’s quest to introduce an alternative painkiller, CBD.

Here’s where we left off:

“I just don’t see anything wrong with allowing grown men to take something that’s going to help them and quite possibly save the game,” Plummer said.

That’s the head-scratcher in all of this, why is a league that is fighting the growing public perception that their game is too dangerous, also fighting against something that could help their players?