It’s 4/20. For those of you not familiar with the importance of today’s date, it’s a day stoners the world over unite in the smoking of a natural plant. We’ll just leave it at that.
With an increasing push to legalize marijuana in the United States and after multiple states have done just that recently, athletes are making it known where they stand on the “drug.”
We’ve primarily seen former NFL players speak out against the league’s policy forbidding marijuana use. To them, the idea of opioids being widespread while marijuana is illegal remains an archaic policy.
While marijuana is technically also illegal in the NBA world, it’s not a secret that a majority of players partake in its use.
That brings us to the point of this article. Multiple former NBA players, including Cuttino Mobley and Matt Barnes, just recently discussed the use of marijuana in the NBA while actually smoking marijuana.
Here’s the Bleacher Report video.
“All my best games, I was medicated,” Barnes said. “It wasn’t every single game, but in 15 years it was a lot."
The group went on to indicate that 85 percent of NBA players smoke marijuana before Barnes noted that head coaches, general managers and team presidents also partake in the herb.
That falls in line with recent news that Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr smokes marijuana to help alleviate chronic back problems (no pun intended).
Either way, watch the entire video. It’s rather interesting stuff.
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