Since leaving the National Football League, former all-pro wideout Calvin Johnson has become an advocate for alternative medicines like cannabis for players dealing with pain.
He went more into dept about his issue with opioid use in the league and how he admits to consuming cannabis after games.
Johnson told Michael Rosenberg of Sports Illustrated in an interview released Friday that he used pot as a healing drug each week, but other pain-relief options were readily available for players.
“When I got to the league, [there] was opioid abuse,” he said. “You really could go in the training room and get what you wanted. I can get Vicodin, I can get Oxy[contin]. It was too available. I used Percocet and stuff like that. And I did not like the way that made me feel. I had my preferred choice of medicine. Cannabis.”
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