Former NFL Star Percy Harvin Says He Was High Before Every Game of His Career

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Percy Harvin is a former NFL star that helped the Seahawks win the Super Bowl in 2013 and was a first round draft pick back in 2009 who played through 2016. And for someone who’s had a great career, many were likely shocked to hear him admit in an interview with Bleacher Report for their YouTube series, Untold Stories that he smoked weed throughout his career. Now this is astonishing considering how just this spring, former Cowboys player David Irving was just suspended indefinitely for marijuana usage. If I were Harvey, I’d sue the league for discrimination. And not only did Harvin smoke weed, he said there wasn’t a game he played where he didn’t spark up and get high.

“That’s what I kind of want the world to see today, is it’s not a stigma and people doing it and getting into a whole bunch of trouble. It’s just people that’s just living regular life that just got deficiencies or maybe just want to enjoy themselves. It’s a natural way to do so,” Harvin said during the interview. It’s also worth noting that Harvin was never suspended for drug use during any of his time with the Minnesota Vikings, Seattle Seahawks, New York Jets, and Buffalo Bills.

As for why Harvin was smoking weed, he did have a legitimate medical reason and not just to be defiant. He was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and regarded the time he was traded to the Seakhawks as the worst of his life. “My anxiety is at its worst when I go into unfamiliar situations,” Harvin said regarding being traded to the Seahawks in 2013, time which he described as the “worst years of my life.” He had a lockerroom encounter once with teammate Golden Tate before the Seahawks Superbowl XLVIII game against the Denver Broncos where Tate said it didn’t matter if he played after returning from having a concussion because they made it to the Super Bowl without him.

And if you think that Harvin’s the only former to make such an admission, former Detroit Lions player Calvin Johnson also admitted to smoking weed while in the NFL. In his case, he suffered at least 9 concussions and marijuana helped with the healing process. “I used Percocet and stuff like that. And I did not like the way that made me feel. I had my preferred choice of medicine. Cannabis,” Johnson told Sports Illustrated.

This year the NFL and NFL Players’ Association announced studying the effects of marijuana in the use of pain management. It’s only about time. How many years have we heard of people using marijuana for pain management and that the subject has been in the mainstream media for the NFL to just now take notice? The unfortunate part about this are those whose careers were harmed for doing what these two openly admitted to doing.