Marijuana use in the NFL has been a controversial topic for many years now.
The subject has continued to evolve lately as the league loosened its hard stance on the substance, taking a more liberal approach. The Kansas City Chiefs have encountered the once strict rules that prohibited any use of cannabis in the league, but those fines and suspensions that affected player availability appear to be a thing of the past as the NFL embraces change. The words cannabis and marijuana are directly associated with wellness and business for today’s players.
The league took a significant step forward in March 2020 when they implemented the new collective bargaining agreement. The new CBA declared that players who test positive for cannabis use would no longer be suspended. Testing would be limited to the first two weeks of training camp instead of a range spanning April to August. The threshold for the amount of THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana needed to trigger a positive test, was also raised.
