NFL bans Bills player for doctor-prescribed marijuana to treat Crohn's disease

[KingEleven]

Henderson reportedly may pursue litigation in order to get back on field



The NFL on Tuesday suspended Buffalo Bills offensive tackle Seantrel Henderson 10 games for violating the league's substance abuse policy. The suspension was first reported by NFL.com.
It's Henderson's second such suspension this season; he'd been suspended for four games earlier in the year. He has already appealed the suspension and had the ruling upheld.

On the surface, this isn't unusual. Players get suspended for violating the substance abuse policy all the time, and many of them are suspended for using Henderson's substance of choice: marijuana.
What makes this situation different is that Henderson was prescribed medicinal marijuana to treat his Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that affects the lining of the digestive tract.
Henderson uses marijuana to treat the pain from the disease and two intestinal surgeries he has undergone as a result of it.

Henderson's agent, Brian Fettner stated at the time of Henderson's first surgery, "There is zero allowable medical exemption for this per the NFL; however, there clearly should be."

NFL.com reported in the wake of the second suspension that Henderson, "needs cannabis. You can't take pain killers with the way his intestines are." Per the same report, Henderson is considering litigation in order to find a way back on the field. He would obviously not be the first player to pursue litigation against the NFL.

Several players have done so over the last few years, though most of those players have been challenging the league's personal conduct policy and not the substance abuse policy.

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[tatehill2000]

This is patently disgusting.. REGUARDLESS of how fringe this is thought of... if a Dr. Prescribes it... that should be the FINAL WORD.
Rediculous...

 

[TheComputerGroup]

Goodell needs to get his head of his ass.......its 2017 & people smoke weed like others drink alcohol.

Plus if its prescribed by a doctor, its as good as vicodin for pain.

 

[Shub]

america cant fully regulate or tax it if were federally legal. Thats the problem, money.

 

[ML Dog]

NFL.com reported in the wake of the second suspension that Henderson, "needs cannabis. puff_>>

Yes.

This here? a Total SHITSTORM dumpster fire mess

for NFL



I don't know how this will turn out, I can't even begin to imagine

but I do fear the eventual resolution leads to more Dropped Passes

 

[Willie99]

Roger's an idiot, an asshole, a liar, a man that will weaken the authority of all future commissioners because he proved he can't be trusted

 

[ML Dog]

Goodell needs to get his head of his ass.......its 2017 & people smoke weed like others drink alcohol.

Plus if its prescribed by a doctor, its as good as vicodin for pain.

God Himself, its in the Bible, proclimated that smoking weed is ok:

"Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth.…To you it will be for meat."

And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. (Genesis 1:29-31)

The Bible predicts some herb's prohibition.

"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times, some shall … speak lies in hypocrisy … commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. (Paul: 1 Timothy 4:1-3)

The Bible speaks of a special plant.

"I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more." (Ezekiel 34:29)


A healing plant.

On either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare 12 manner of fruits, and yielding her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Revelations 22:1-2)




A gift from God.