NFL blowing smoke on marijuana usage

Shane Ray, left, the Missouri pass rusher selected by Denver Broncos in the first round of the NFL Draft, holds his team jersey with his mother Sebrina Johnson after a news conference Friday, May 1, 2015, in Englewood. (David Zalubowski, The Associated Press)

Let's call a cease-fire on the NFL's senseless war against marijuana.

When Broncos rookie Shane Ray messes up and gets pulled over by police with 35 grams of marijuana in his car, he needs to answer to his mom, not NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

"My mom just started crying," Ray said, when I asked how he broke the news to Sebrina Johnson about getting busted for pot possession 80 hours before the draft's opening bell.

"And when something like that happens, you understand that it was such a disappointment. But, even through that, she said we were going to get through it. She backed me. All anybody...

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