North Texas Football Vet Marvin Washington Wants the NFL to Expand the Rules on Cannabis

After a long career in football, Marvin Washington wants to help other injured athletes as an advocate for treatments with cannibanoids and mushrooms.For Marvin Washington, sleep isn’t easy to come by. Taking a combination of CBD and melatonin helps, but most days he is out of bed by 2 a.m. If he’s lucky, 2:30.

Washington, a 6-foot-6, 285-pound defensive end who racked up 40.5 sacks and 10 forced fumbles across a career spent with the New York Jets, San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos from 1989 through 1999, likens life on the football field to repeatedly ramming his head into a wall — every day. “I was out there the next Sunday and was being told by the coaches and the GM, ‘Hey Marvin, you are going to play this Sunday and you are going to play well.’ I couldn’t play well. I never got healthy that season."

Washington has become a prominent advocate and entrepreneur in medical cannabis, devoting himself to advancing the use of cannabis and other naturally occurring psychedelic compounds for their utility as pain relievers in lieu of opioids, anxiety aids and treatment options for both post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries.

Washington has also been active as a board member and investor in several companies, including BudTrader, an online market for cannabis; Athletes for Care, a non-profit that works to use the influence of former professional athletes to advocate for better standards of health and safety for athletes at all levels across the world; and, most prominent, Isodiol, a nutraceutical company that specializes in CBD products.

Washington describes his current relationship with the NFL as “love-hate.” He still enjoys watching but he would advise parents against letting their kids play.

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