Browns OL Joe Thomas wants NFL marijuana policy updated
Josh Gordon is not the only one upset about the NFL’s policy on marijuana.
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After the Cleveland Browns played their preseason finale on Thursday night, the first since the one-year suspension for a failed drug test from Gordon was upheld, offensive tackle Joe Thomas spoke out on the league’s outdated policy on marijuana.
"“I think looking at the NFL drug program, I think they haven’t really touched it in a lot of years because it’s kinda been the one thing when you’re collectively bargaining that it kinda gets put to the end and then when you’re close on a deal you just say ‘ahh let’s just leave it how it’s been’ rather than actually work on maybe some issues that are there,” Thomas said via the Cleveland Plain-Dealer."
The collective bargaining agreement won’t expire for the next eight years so an amendment to how the NFL views marijuana would not figure to be altered any time soon. Thomas thinks changing morals in society and cultural changes need to be reflected in an updated policy from the league.
"“I think there’s a resistance from management of the NFL and also from the players association to do that type of needed updating of the drug policy because obviously there’s some oversights when they wrote the program and some cultural changes that have happened that I don’t think the program accurately reflects the morals of society today and the NFL and pro sports in general,” Thomas said."
We saw the NFL come up with clear and concise penalties for players who commit domestic or sexual abuse with a six-game suspension for the first offense and a lifetime ban for a repeat offender.
Could we see NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith sit down and modify the league’s views on marijuana?
What do you think the NFL should do when a player tests positive for marijuana? Fine, suspension, nothing?