
Retired TE Bennett says '89 percent' of players use marijuana
Recently retired NFL tight end Martellus Bennett said on the NFL Channel on Wednesday that he believes about 90 percent of the players in the National Football League use marijuana. When Bennett was asked if the number of players who use marijuana is over or under 70 percent, he answered with "over" before estimating the actual figure to be somewhere around "89 percent." "There's medical marijuana," said Bennett, who played 10 seasons in the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, Chicago Bears, New England Patriots and Green Bay Packers. "So it's like, there's times of the year where your body just hurts so bad that you don't want to just be popping pills all the time. "That sh--, it ruins your liver. There's a lot of these anti-inflammatories that you take for so long that like, it...