4:20 My Dudes featuring Mike James

Liz and Patrick meet up with Cannabis Advocate and NFL Running Back, Mike James. They discuss life in the cannabis game and sample some good greens. Mike James is an advocate for the medical use of cannabis, which he says can help reduce addiction to opioids among NFL players. James says cannabis helped him overcome his own painkiller addiction while recovering from a severe ankle injury sustained in 2013.[14] In 2018, after failing a drug test the previous year, James filed a therapeutic use exemption with the NFL to allow him to use cannabis. The petition was later denied, but James' attorney said that discussion with league officials was ongoing. James was featured in the CNN documentary Weed 4 discussing his use of cannabis as an alternate pain-reliever and his push for the NFL to allow its use. James is also a co-chair of the Doctors for Cannabis Regulation NFL steering committee.