Former Super Bowl Champ Blows Away the War on Drugs, ‘Marijuana Got Me Off Narcotic Pain Pills’

Chicago, IL – In a recent interview, 56-year-old Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon said that he uses marijuana to help him deal with the pain that he suffers from playing football for his entire life. Using marijuana has helped him to stop taking dangerous narcotic painkillers, which are known to have severe side effects and an extreme risk of addiction.

As a result of multiple concussions and injuries, the former football star is left with debilitating pain, as well as early stage dementia. McMahon suffers from severe headaches, depression, memory loss, and vision and speech problems.

While working with the NFL, athletes are many times treated by doctors who are commissioned by the league, and it has been a standard policy to prescribe prescription pain pills. The practice was so widespread, that last year federal drug agents raided a number of NFL teams under suspicion of illegally dispensing legal drugs to their players.

The federal agents who conducted the raid were attempting to prove that teams in the NFL dispense prescription drugs without labels, and without licensed doctors present.

To prevent getting addicted to narcotic pain killers and experiences all of the problems that come with that, McMahon and many other NFL players are trying marijuana instead.

“They were doing more harm than good. This medical marijuana has been a godsend. It relieves me of the pain — or thinking about it, anyway,” McMahon said.

Now, McMahon smokes marijuana a few times per day instead of taking over 100 Percocets a month as he was before.
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As we reported last year, well-known researchers at the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS have published an editorial in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, saying that doctors are ignoring legitimate studies on the use of cannabis to treat a host of conditions.

Thomas Kerr, Julio Montaner, and Stephanie Lake argue that medical cannabis should be used instead of opioids for neuropathic pain, but this is being stigmatized by the fact that medical cannabis is not approved by Canadian regulators.

According to the 2015 data on death rates from 2001-2014, released by the Centers for Disease control and Prevention last year:

Prescription drug overdose deaths have nearly tripled since 2001
Opioid overdose deaths have nearly quadrupled since 2001
Benzodiazepine overdose deaths have increased by more than 600% since 2001
Cocaine overdose deaths are up 42% since 2001
Heroin overdose deaths are up nearly 500% since 2001

Meanwhile, no one has ever overdosed on marijuana, no matter how hard they have tried.

Athletes will undoubtedly be faced with the decision in their careers of whether they should use painkillers or marijuana and other natural remedies to cure their pain, and while sports injuries do result in millions of people getting hooked on pharmaceutical drugs, there is a growing trend toward more natural remedies like marijuana.

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