This year, Super Bowl 50 was held in San Francisco and as a result, various NFL fans flew out there. As that was occurring, scientists released troubling information. It turns out that old Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler has been diagnosed with a degenerative brain disease as a result of taking multiple hits to the head. On Wednesday, another old but great quarterback, Earl Morrall, also turned out to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which results in memory loss, inefficient judgement, and dementia. Many ex-football players have been found with such diseases, some of which have even passed away.
At the moment, there is no effective treatment for CTE. Also, there is no way to indicate whether or not a living person has the condition. Tests are only able to indicate the condition after death. However, there is one method that could help that is not allowed in the NFL, although it would be easy to get in San Francisco for anyone that has permission from a doctor: medical cannabis.
“If cannabis is implemented and (the NFL) can lead the science on this, they can resolve this brain injury situation in a big way,” Kyle Turley stated.
Turley is the face of a movement indicating that medical cannabis’s pain-reducing and neuroprotective properties make it the only possible treatment for the results of multiple concussive hits to the head on football players. Turkey is the co-founder of the Gridiron Cannabis Coalition and the movement’s biggest member along with other football stars and rapper Snoop Dogg.
More footballers’ brains are showing symptoms of CTE with each year that follows. Scientists at Boston University have seen evidence of CTE in ninety-six percent of the NFL players’ brains that have been tested. Simultaneously, more states are letting doctors recommend cannabis as a medicine – 23 as of right now, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws reports.
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