Corridor of Famer gave me blunt with Vicodin

Ricky Williams has hardly ever been shy when it arrives to publicizing his cannabis usage during his 11-yr job in the NFL. Now, the 45-yr-old is sharing the techniques others close to the league utilized the substance to tackle the bumps and bruises of the sport.

Williams – who performed for the Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints and Baltimore Ravens – in the end noticed his vocation occur to an abrupt conclude in 2011 after he was suspended for violating the NFL’s material abuse plan on several instances. When the former star operating again is arguably the most infamous case in point of cannabis use in the league, he argues a lot of players eaten the drug beneath wraps.

“I played a long time in the past, and I played for a very long time. So matters have adjusted a ton when I initial got into the league,” Williams explained on United states of america Today’s “Sports Significantly.”

“My rookie yr, a Hall of Fame participant on the workforce, he’s in the Corridor of Fame now, invited me more than to his property and he gave me the speech about how to choose treatment of oneself in the NFL. And he pulled out some cannabis, crushed it up, break up a blunt, opened it up, place the cannabis in there, took a Vicodin, crushed it up, sprinkled the Vico in there, rolled up the blunt and passed it to me. That was a vet, teaching me as a rookie, how to consider treatment of myself in the NFL.”

Williams who was straight away put below the highlight upon entering the NFL in 1999 immediately after the Saints traded multiple  picks to select him at No. 5, sighted a different tale exactly where his teammates had been examine you have a unique sort of snack all through a film session.

“My previous 12 months in the NFL, I was participating in for the Ravens,” Williams reported. “And a person issue we were being in the playoffs and I was leaving the facility and there were men coming in with a plate full of ‘brownies.’ They [were] going to go watch movie, so yeah…” 

Williams recognized that a great deal has altered considering the fact that his enjoying times in the league, particularly the bigger acceptance of cannabis both equally in the legal and soccer realms. According to him, it’ll only be a issue of time ahead of marijuana will come to be a commonality in NFL locker rooms.

“And now, because it’s a lot more authorized, it is to the place, why would not you [use it] if you are in the NFL?” Williams asked. “I believe in the foreseeable future, teams are gonna be supplying cannabis for the gamers because they’ve realized it’s a wholesome option [to] prescribed drugs.”
As for Williams, the outspoken jogging again has now entered the marijuana market himself as a happy proprietor of the cannabis brand name ‘Highsman.’