The National Football League has a ban on medical marijuana that may not last much longer.

According to an ESPN report, the association and its players’ union announced this week an establishment of a joint pain management committee that will conduct research into pain reduction alternatives.

The league announced that the committee will be charged to establish “uniform standards for club practices and policies regarding pain management and the use of prescription medication by NFL players.”

The committee will also work alongside a new prescription drug monitoring program that looks into all players’ prescriptions issued by team physicians or outside physicians.

It also requires every team to appoint a pain management specialist before he 2019 season begins.

“We want to explore all of the strategies that help a player deal with acute and chronic pain,” said Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer when speaking to ESPN.

He added, “Some of those efforts require medication, some don’t. With regard to marijuana, certainly there’s a lot of discussion about not only cannabis but cannabinoid compounds, CBD, and it’s something that health care providers are exploring outside of football. That type of research will certainly be part of the

mission of this committee and this program.”
“This is a medical exercise,” Sills added. “We know as providers that we need to get better at exploring our options in these areas. The pain management committee will determine how we pursue any of those compounds — cannabis, cannaboids — as it will with all avenues.”


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