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Friday, September 19, 2014NFL: New Pot Testing Cutoffs Higher
Rolling Stone Magazine. By James Montgomery | September 18, 2014
Earlier
this week, the NFL and its Players Association – who, as you are probably
aware, have been at odds over a few things recently – were somehow able
to hammer out a new drug policy, that includes a liberalized marijuana policy.
The
new plan raises the acceptable level of THC found in a player's
urine from 15 nanograms per milliliter to 35, a change that reflects the recent
trend towards marijuana legalization.
(Federal
DOT testing standards for reported positives are 50 ng/ml on the initial screen, and 15 ng/ml for the
confirmation test.)
Men's Journal has a by-the-numbers
breakdown of the NFL's relationship with drug use, and its new pot policy. Here
are some of the statistics.
3,000: The estimated number
of NFL retirees who take narcotics, based on a study from Washington University School of
Medicine, commissioned by ESPN. 1,500: The estimated number
of those retirees dependent on pain pills, based on the same study.
104: Number of players who
have been suspended for drug-related offenses since 2011 according to commissioner Roger Goodell at
a news conference.
20: Number of suspensions in 2014 for other substances including
performance enhancing drugs, alcohol, and cocaine.
Read the complete article at http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/take-a-hit-the-nfls-pot-policy-by-the-numbers-20140918#ixzz3Dlute1eq
