Pain management for players figures to be a hotly debated topic in the next NFL-NFLPA negotiation.
AP File
The issue of how recreational marijuana should be sanctioned and how medicinal marijuana fits into the football painkiller lexicon has been much discussed over the past half-decade. And so it was that the NFL reached out to the NFLPA on July 6 to explore spending a piece of their “joint contribution amount” on studying the drug and how it should be treated in pain management.
Would you be surprised to hear that this just became the stage for their next fight?