This NFL scandal re drugs and hiding injuries

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I still have a DVD and a videotape of HBOs Fields of Fire - Sports in the Sixties and Seventies and they showed a locker room full of syringes with every imaginable drug available to the NFL players while their coaches were attacking people for smoking ganja and hippies.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-11-14/sports/1995318113_1_olbermann-hbo-sports-fans
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Lost in all the tumult and turmoil that affected the American body politic in the 1960s was the upheaval that turned the sports culture on its ear, as virtually everything that touched the society at large, from protests to drug use and everything in between, invaded the athletic realm.

The volatility of the era is painstakingly captured in yet another wonderful HBO documentary, "Fields of Fire: Sports in the '60s," which premieres tonight at 10, with repeats Thursday and Saturday

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1. This is why they need to okay marijuana use.

Players use it to alleviate their pain. It keeps them from becoming addicted to prescription drugs. They hurt a helluva lot.
If they are current players, they risk losing a year if caught.

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2. That 1995 documentary pointed out that while the ganja was considered a drug

The real drugs in the syringes in the locker room were fine and dandy.