Cannabis Culture: 12 Athlete Advocates
Who they are and what they're up to
Here are my top twelve 420 friendly athletes
Chris Long
Long spent two seasons with the Eagles and won the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year Award in 2018 for outstanding community service. He played a key role for the Birds during their Super Bowl 2017 season. Long won back-to-back Super Bowls, first with the Patriots in 2017 and then the Eagles (beating the Pats) in 2018.
He started the Chris Long Foundation with the mission of bringing together a community of elite athletes and passionate fans, we relentlessly serve our overlooked neighbors, both domestic and international, by creating solutions for clean water and education access.
We believe in a world that stands up to inequity to ensure access to clean water and education are considered basic human rights that no person lacks.
Ricky Williams
Highsman is an appreciation for greatness and an appreciation for cannabis. When I started experimenting with it recreationally, I became very reflective and a lot of the time the things I was reflecting on didn’t feel good to me. But through that inner reflection, I started making changes in myself– I realized that there was more to me than just being a football player, and it created an urge to start developing those other sides of myself. It was, and still is, my appreciation for cannabis that helped me to realize my potential for greatness outside the game of football.
Eben Britton
CANNABIS WAS A MAJOR PART OF MY RECOVERY PROCESS THROUGH SIX YEARS IN THE NFL. IN TRUTH, I WAS FOLLOWING MY INSTINCTS. I KNEW IT WAS ILLEGAL, SO I EDUCATED MYSELF ON THE SYSTEM. I LEARNED WHEN TO EXPECT TESTS AND THE WINDOWS IN WHICH I COULD UTILIZE THE ONE THING THAT MADE ME FEEL BETTER. I WAS DEATHLY AFRAID OF TESTING POSITIVE ON A DRUG TEST, YET I WAS WILLING TO USE CANNABIS BECAUSE AS THE INJURIES AND SCAR TISSUE PILED UP IN MY BODY IT SOOTHED MY MENTAL AND PHYSICAL PAIN LIKE NOTHING ELSE HAD. – THE CASE FOR CANNABIS
Floyd Leadville
Floyd’s story is that of a world-class athlete who attained both extraordinary peaks (winning the Tour De France) and painful valleys (injury and depression). As a professional cyclist, discomfort was a way of life, along with injuries in an ultra-competitive sport. One in particular—a 35 mile-per-hour crash—changed everything, and resulted in a hip replacement at the age of 31. Floyd turned to opioids, powerful drugs with well-documented side effects, to manage the pain.
Dee Dussault
Dee Dussault is an internationally-recognized pioneer in the cannabis-enhanced wellness, spirituality, and sexual health movement.
Cannabis and spiritual wellness are an ancient pairing that started in South Asia several thousand years ago and made its way around the globe to you. ‘Ganja Yoga’ the brand started in 2009. It’s designed to help people of all age, body size, race, and fitness and experience-level find deep relaxation and rad community.
Jim Mcalpine
Jim McAlpine is serial cannabis entrepreneur best-known for his roles as founder and organizer of the New West Summit, 420 Games, and Powerplant Fitness.
Eugene Monroe
“On March 9, 2016, I became the first active NFL player to openly advocate for the use of cannabinoids to treat chronic pain and sports-related injuries. It’s time for the NFL to change its archaic standards to better protect its players. For too long, I’ve watched my teammates and good friends battle with opioid addiction and leave the game with a long road still ahead; it’s time to make a change.” – Eugene Monroe
Nate Jackson
Kyle Turley
Life was a rocky road for former Saints player Kyle Turley during and after his playing days in the NFL. Turley turned to CBD and has opened his own cannabis dispensary in California under the Shango brand ecosystem.
Nick and Nate Diaz
Nick Diaz earned a 5-year suspension from the UFC for repeatedly testing positive for THC. The suspension was lifted after nearly a year and the UFC no longer considers marijuana to be a punishable offense.
CBD Products Made from Hemp are 100% Legal
CBD products are produced one of two places, medical cannabis or industrial hemp plants. While still illegal under federal law, cannabis is legal in several states but because it has a low THC content (>.3%), industrial hemp does not fall under these same regulations. This allows consumers to purchase and use CBD as a natural supplement without worrying about any legal repercussions.
Many cannabis users who are solely interested in the medicinal value of marijuana find CBD isolate products to be extremely appealing and effective.
Greta Gaines
Greta Gaines is a leading advocate on the reform of cannabinoid law, spending years becoming an authority while serving on the Board of Directors of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Law (NORML); the Board of the NORML Women’s Alliance Foundation (as a Founding Member); and the Advisory Board of Patients Out of Time. Ms. Gaines is well known as an innovator in the use of hemp and developer of cannabinoid-based solutions as a valuable and healing commodity.
Riley Cote
Riley Cote is a former professional ice hockey left winger who played four National Hockey League (NHL) seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers and was mainly known as an enforcer. Upon retiring from the Philadelphia Flyers Riley founded the Hemp Heals Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization that promotes cannabis/hemp as a viable renewable resource, that can help people increase quality of life and perform better. Cote is a co-founder of Athletes For Care, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating a community where athletes can find support, opportunity, and purpose in life after a career in sports.
Riley Cote is a co-founder of Bodychek Wellness that specializes in organically grown hemp-derived CBD extracts and functional mushroom blends that help flush inflammation, increase recovery time and optimize everyday performance. The line reinforces Cote’s passion to help individuals discover safe nontoxic methods for pain management and self-healing.
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