Professional athletes, including NFL players, smoke weed and use cannabis. That’s just a fact, and nothing about said fact is surprising. What may be a bit of a shock is just how many players around the league indulge in the devil’s lettuce, which Travis Kelce estimates up to 80% of them take part.
“If you just stop (using) in the middle of July, you’re fine,” Kelce told Vanity Fair, while also estimating anywhere from 50-80% of players take part in cannabis use. “A lot of guys stop a week before, and they still pass (drug tests) because everybody’s working out in the heat and sweating their tail off. Nobody’s really getting hit for it anymore.”
Kelce didn’t just grab that 80% number out of thin air. He’s obviously been around long enough to see teammates and other players partake in cannabis use, but the face of weed use in the NFL, Ricky Williams, predicted at least 80% of NFL players smoke weed as well.