Ricky Williams talks NFL’s evolving drug polices, development of hashish way of life model

Ricky Williams believes the NFL will proceed to make modifications to its drug polices because it learns extra about hashish. On3 just lately spoke to the previous NFL working again concerning the NFL probably making further modifications to its polices after doing so final yr.

“It’s to the point where it’s lax enough where the players aren’t complaining,” Ricky Williams mentioned. “So they discovered a candy spot, and it’d keep there till a participant or gamers take a stand and say, ‘This is important for us.’

“I’m idealistic here, but being a professional football player, being a cannabis advocate, it makes sense to me that the NFL should give players, should facilitate players having every reasonable means to be able to take care of themselves. So my hope in the future, the same way Kevin O’Neill, our head trainer (for the Miami Dolphins), would walk down the aisle of the airplane and hand out Vicodin and Ambien that people might have, or THC capsules or gummies or something that honors people’s choice and how they take care of themselves.”

In December, the NFL and NFL Players Association agreed to changes to the league’s drug insurance policies, together with modifications to testing procedures, fines and different self-discipline related to violations of performance-enhancing drug coverage and the coverage of substance abuse. A major change made was that the extent of THC required to set off a optimistic hashish check was elevated from 150 nanograms per milliliter to 350.

Ricky Williams has large expansions plans for Highsman

During Williams’ NFL profession, he was suspended a number of instances for hashish, together with in May of 2004, months earlier than he retired from the league. He returned to the NFL in 2005, however was suspended for the complete 2006 season for violating the NFL’s drug coverage.

After retiring from the NFL in 2012, Williams turned a medical hashish advocate. It led to him launching the cannabis lifestyle brand, Highsman, in 2021. Williams advised On3 that he’s completely satisfied to see Highsman “survive” in “an unregulated market,” however “we’ve had to grow pivot, make a lot of adjustments.” The Pro Bowl and All-Pro working again additionally mentioned increasing Highsman into new markets, because it’s already in 10 states.

“We’re launching New York on the next week or two,” Williams revealed. “We’re launching Missouri next week, and we just launched Rhode Island last two weeks ago. So, those are the freshest new markets that we’re we’re going into now. Our pattern is leading up into the football season, the off-season, we do a lot of work to get into new markets, and then during the football season, we really grow and take care of those markets. And then next winter, we’ll look to enter some new markets.”