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It appears the NFL would rather continue giving its players addicting and deadly pain killers like Toradol, rather than letting them try medical cannabis.

The cannabis legalization movement gained two unlikely allies over the weekend: GOP political consultant Roger Stone and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.

Emails brought to light last week by a class-action lawsuit revealed that officials with the Atlanta Falcons, who play the New England Patriots in Sunday’s Super Bowl LI, were alarmed by the team’s prescription medication use as early as 2010.

The NFL Players Association is putting together a proposal to adopt a “less punitive” approach to cannabis, but details are still fuzzy.

Former NFL offensive lineman Eugene Monroe partners with VapeXhale to develop medical cannabis delivery technologies specifically designed for athletes.

Can cannabis help with athletic recovery? The cannabis plant as a whole has many benefits that could help athletes recover without using prescription painkillers.

The NFL announced a 10-game suspension of Buffalo Bills offensive tackle Seantrel Henderson for using medical cannabis to treat Crohn’s disease.

After eight of nine states on Tuesday voted to pass cannabis legalization initiatives, the league’s stance on cannabis could finally change.

In a new ESPN survey of more than 220 current NFL players, 61 percent of players said that if cannabis were a legal option, fewer players would take powerful pain-killing injections.

The enigmatic player, and his relationship with cannabis, take center stage once again this week, when SI Films premieres the documentary “Ricky Williams Takes the High Road.”