The NFL has announced they are in the process of reviewing the way they punish players for positive drug tests, especially its marijuana policy. The new policy would greatly reduce the NFL’s suspicions for positive tests and increase the threshold for a positive.
It is too late to go back and change the positive tests of Josh Gordon and Will Hill, but the future athletes will more than likely benefit from their follies. According to ESPN, sources have said the NFL’s drug testing policy is outdated and needs an overhaul.
The NFL Players Association has also urged the NFL to study the effects of marijuana in the medical field, siting that medical marijuana is becoming a becoming more commonplace. The claim is that marijuana, in the right doses, could be used as a concussion treatment that would work better than the medications and treatments that have been used this generation.
The NFL will also discuss changes to the way players are suspended for drugs other than actually testing positives. The example brought forth were if a player is found to had taken drugs by means other than a tests like how Alex Rodriguez was suspended in baseball or if a player is caught violating the law like smuggling prescriptions across a boarder.
The NFL and NFLPA are butting heads over this issue as well as HGH testing due to the NFLPA’s request to have an independent arbitrator hear the claims instead of Roger Goodell. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello responded to the NFLPA’s claim about Goodell.
"It's kind of funny because since 2011 the union has come up with one excuse after another to avoid implementing an agreement to test for HGH. First, it was the testing method; then it was the population study; now it's commissioner authority. Our commitment to testing is clear. The same cannot be said of the union.”
[ESPN]
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