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Congressional cannabis champion Rep. Earl Blumenauer is the latest public figure to weigh in on medical marijuana in professional sports, urging both the NBA and NFL to stop persecuting their players for using a natural painkiller.
In the weeks since former NBA commissioner David Stern sat down with player-turned-ganjapreneur Al Harrington to discuss basketball’s ineffective and misguided cannabis ban on camera for LeBron James’ Uninterrupted, current NBA coaches, league officials, and players have all weighed in on the controversial subject, opening a can of worms that does not look like it will go away quietly.
To find opinions on this shift in the dialogue about banned substances from outside of the NBA’s self-contained universe, TMZ caught up with Rep. Blumenauer in Washington D.C., where the vocal legalization advocate expressed strong feelings in support of players’ rights.
“What we’re seeing is a number of professional athletes who choose to deal with the really terrible pain of their profession using marijuana for medical purposes,” Blumenauer told TMZ. “It’s much less damaging than the opioids, the…
