Golden State Warriors head coach spills beans about marijuana intake
Marijuana has been a source of pain relief for the head coach Steve Kerr since past 18 months. Kerr is famous for his highest career 3-point percentage (45.4%) with 2,000 shot attempts in NBA history.
As a matter of fact, Steve has admitted to smoking weed two times in the past 18 months in order to deal with his chronic back pain, according to Celeb Sip.
The proud head coach maintains that he has the right reasons for the use of marijuana. While Draymond Green added his bold approval in the matter and said that this makes a lot of sense.
He also added that plants grown from the earth are always endorsed to be used and consumed. Any vegetable that is grown in the earth is encouraged to be eaten.
Steve Kerr was on leave last season to repair a ruptured disk which came after he suffered from a spinal fluid leak. He returned to the sideline but still felt pain and had to deal with it.
Now, with this bombshell news many NBL players and coaches have concerns and opinions. Phoenix Suns head coach Earl Watson expresses his concerns and says that Steve needs to be careful because the guys in the sport may consider marijuana as a cool option!
Klay Thompson and Andrew Bogut are on the same track of Steve and maintain with him a long term vision that as long as marijuana is used for genuine reasons.
Once in 1980s, the hysteria of the War on Drugs led NFL to put disciplinary lines for marijuana use. But after the war on Marijuana ended with a huge failure, people's views towards marijuana has become more tolerant, reports Rolling Stone.
Trends have sharply changed today in NFL. 20 out of 32 teams in NFL allow medical marijuana. After the recent legalization of the famous weed, recreational and medical marijuana will take a speedy hike.
A number of vocal ex-players are urging the league to allow players using pain reliever CBD - a compound in cannabis that does not get people high.
CBD is non-toxic, non-addictive, and non-psychoactive and in high impact situations its use is positive and not negative.