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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 McMahon suggests Ditka was aware of Bears’ marijuana use 🌿McMahon suggests Ditka was aware of Bears’ marijuana use
The NFL began testing for marijuana and other substances of abuse in 1982, the same year quarterback Jim McMahon arrived in the league from a Mormon university that frowns on various behaviors far more innocuous than smoking weed. Long retired from football, McMahon relies on marijuana for medicinal purposes. Recently, he suggested that he and other Bears were smoking it while playing — and that the team’s legendary head coach knew it.
“Mike Ditka would say, ‘Oh, all you guys, you pot smokers,’ That’s what he’d call us. ‘You pot smokers,'” McMahon said Sunday at the Southwest Cannabis Conference and Expo, via Ryan Osborne of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “We’d say, ‘It’s better than being drunk out here. We’re still functioning.'”
On one hand, the NFL shouldn’t care what players do away from the workplace when it comes to smoking marijuana, as long as players don’t get arrested for it. On the...
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