NFL player suspended 10 games for using marijuana to treat Chrohn's disease

[jct74]

The NFL Is Punishing A Player Who Uses Marijuana To Treat His Crohn’s Disease
If he gets caught again, Seantrel Henderson will be banned for life.

Maxwell Strachan
11/30/2016

For the second time this season, Buffalo Bills offensive lineman Seantrel Henderson has been suspended by the NFL for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy, the team announced on Tuesday.

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Because it is his second violation this year, Henderson must deal with a 10-game suspension without pay, after already sitting through a four-game suspension earlier this season. Should be fail one more drug test, he will be banned from the league for life, barring a successful attempt at reinstatement down the line.

But Henderson’s story is not a typical one. In the middle of last season, the 24-year-old learned he had Crohn’s disease, defined by the Mayo Clinic as “an inflammatory bowel disease ... [that] causes inflammation of the lining of your digestive tract.” Crohn’s disease can cause “abdominal pain, severe diarrhea, fatigue, weight loss and malnutrition,” and while there is no known cure for it, one thing in particular can help ease the pain, according to medial studies: weed.

“I’ve got doctors telling me this is the No. 1 medicine that would help your disease,” Henderson said in October, according to The Buffalo News. “You try to tell that to the league and it seems like they didn’t care too much.”

Henderson has had multiple surgeries since the discovery of his disease. Once he had two-and-a-half feet of his colon removed; another time surgeons had to reattach his intestines, according to Yahoo. In the intervening months, he had to wear an ileostomy bag while he dropped approximately 50 lbs.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b017f37fe20c1c

[Suzanimal]

My nephew's girlfriend has Crohn's and she says weed is the only thing that helps her.

[TheTexan]

“I’ve got doctors telling me this is the No. 1 medicine that would help your disease,” Henderson said in October, according to The Buffalo News. “You try to tell that to the league and it seems like they didn’t care too much.”

Must be a crappy Doctor, if he doesn't know that Marijuana is a Schedule I drug, which by definition has no known medical use.

"Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. For example, Heroin and Marijuana."

[TheTexan]

My nephew's girlfriend has Crohn's and she says weed is the only thing that helps her.

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope your nephew's girlfriend finds the help she needs, to recover from her addiction of this dangerous substance.

[Suzanimal]

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope your nephew's girlfriend finds the help she needs, to recover from her addiction of this dangerous substance.

She seems happy all the time, I don't think she's interested in giving up her vice.

She's also vegetarian. They're getting married next summer in a field (hippies) and I told them I would bring my bongos for the drum circle.

[TheTexan]

She seems happy all the time, I don't think she's interested in giving up her vice.

She's also vegetarian. They're getting married next summer in a field (hippies) and I told them I would bring my bongos for the drum circle.

Damn hippies.

[dannno]

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[jmdrake]

My nephew's girlfriend has Crohn's and she says weed is the only thing that helps her.

I have a relative with Crohn's so advanced that his only treatment options are medical marijuana or a prescription drug with the side effect that it could possibly cause fast acting 100% fatal cancer. This is what I have to say to the DEA.

[jct74]

Steve Kerr says he used marijuana for back pain, hopes leagues soften stance

Chris Haynes
12/2/16




OAKLAND, Calif. -- Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said on a CSN Bay Area podcast published Friday that he used marijuana for back pain he experienced the past two years.

"I guess maybe I could even get in some trouble for this, but I've actually tried [marijuana] twice during the last year and a half when I've been going through this pain, this chronic pain that I've been dealing with," Kerr told host Monte Poole.

"A lot of research, a lot of advice from people, and I have no idea if I would -- maybe I would have failed a drug test. I don't even know if I'm subject to a drug test or any laws from the NBA, but I tried it, and it didn't help at all. But it was worth it, because I'm searching for answers on pain. But I've tried painkillers and drugs of other kinds, as well, and those have been worse. It's tricky."

Kerr underwent two back surgeries last year, causing him to miss nearly the first half of the 2015-16 campaign, and complications caused him continuing discomfort.

The reigning NBA coach of the year went on to say in the podcast that he hopes professional sports league soften their stances on marijuana use, believing it is a better alternative to what players are being handed for pain today.

"I would hope so, and I'm not a pot person. It doesn't agree with me. I tried it a few times, and it did not agree with me at all. So I'm not the expert on this stuff. But I do know this: If you're an NFL player, in particular, and you got lot of pain, I don't think there's any question that pot is better for your body than Vicodin," Kerr, 51, said. "And yet, athletes everywhere are prescribed Vicodin like it's Vitamin C, like it's no big deal. And there's like this perception in our country that over-the-counter drugs are fine but pot is bad. Now, I think that's changing.

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http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/1...-soften-stance

[bunklocoempire]

Pat Tillman didn't die so that a bunch of pot smokin' hippies could sully the great American game of classy and upright NFLfootball.

[Danke]

Two first-round draft prospects for the 2015 season have already had trouble with marijuana. After former Nebraska player Randy Gregory failed a drug test and former Missouri player Shane Ray was cited for possession, Mike Freeman of Bleacher Report discussed marijuana with an NFL general manager, who estimated that around 30 percent of players in the league use marijuana

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0429/How-many-NFL-players-use-marijuana-video

[luctor-et-emergo]

My nephew's girlfriend has Crohn's and she says weed is the only thing that helps her.

I know someone in the same situation who says the same.

[kpitcher]

Not chrohn, but this Parkinsons result is astonishing

[John F Kennedy III]

Ridiculous.