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The discussions about the use of marijuana as a form of medicine for NFL players has been going on for a while, and the NFL has declined to update its view that makes marijuana a banned substance under any circumstances, even in the face of fairly copious research. On Tuesday morning, Baltimore...

Former Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon calls himself "old school," including his use of marijuana both during and after his career. Yet McMahon's stab at self-medicating could be ahead of its time. Researchers at Johns Hopkins plan to test whether a compound found in hemp – and its...

NFL players experience the residual effects of brain injuries long after they retire from competing professionally. With each passing year, more and more football players are added to the list of those suffering from chronic brain injuries, yet federal medical marijuana policies, along with the...

To understand football, Nate Jackson says, you need to remember one inherent truth about the game: a human body was not made to absorb that kind of punishment. "There's no safe way to get hit by a truck," Jackson puts it. Jackson, author of the football memoir Slow Getting Up, spent six...