Sidelined (P Harvin) because he can't use the medicine that works!

[Bennyboy]

The idiocy of our country’s approach to medical marijuana was on full display for all to see at the Minnesota Vikings training camp yesterday.

Since the age of 10, Percy Harvin, a Vikings wide receiver, has suffered from chronic, debilitating migraines. Luckily, later in life, Harvin found a therapeutic substance that not only relieved his migraines effectively, but also allowed him to play football. It was marijuana.

But during last year’s NFL combine, Harvin, a promising prospect, tested positive for marijuana, and was subsequently drafted much lower than expected. The Vikings finally picked him 22nd overall, reportedly after a long talk about his marijuana use, and specifically, how it needed to stop if he wanted to keep playing.

Harvin complied, and the migraines didn’t seem to be a problem for much of his breakout rookie season. “Questions about his ability as a receiver seem silly now,” Jim Trotter of Sports Illustrated wrote at the time. “The only thing that has slowed him is migraines.” Toward the end of last season, the migraines got worse, and Harvin was sidelined. Except now he wasn’t able to use marijuana to treat them, and nothing else seemed to work.

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READ MORE:http://blog.mpp.org/medical-marijuana/sidelined-because-he-can%E2%80%99t-use-the-medicine-that-works/08202010/

[ejpoeta]

1. why use something that grows like a weed and you could grow yourself

if it were legal when there is a very expensive alternative that will make a pharmaceutical company a lot of friggin money. it's the free market. see how it works.

[Bennyboy]

2. You really can't grow it though...

not quality stuff. Schwag maybe. but for most the growers have learned to grow it way better than a person without that background.

[Bennyboy]

3. Bump to the top(NT)

[alarimer]

4. This is too bad.

I think he is a very good player but maybe he shouldn't sacrifice his personal health to this sport. He can't play as it is, it seems. I assume he has tried everything else (botox supposedly helps until it wears off, so maybe he should do that).