On Monday, we shared a couple of tweets that Jets wide receiver Brandon Marshall sent from Jamaica over the weekend making reference to the amount of marijuana smoke in the air around the island.
One of them was directed to the NFL’s Twitter account with Marshall writing that he’s an occasional wine drinker and asking for the league’s help because he appeared to be worried about failing a drug test because of secondhand inhalation. At an event on Tuesday, Marshall was asked about the tweets and said he was “just having fun” after noticing the constant smell of pot in the air.
“I was at my sister’s wedding and I was just thinking about it because you hear about these cases all the time,” Marshall said, via Newsday. “I was just kidding around. It was like everywhere we would walk. I walk into my room after the day is over and it was like, ‘You smell that?!’ Or you’ll just be on the bus and the driver smells like it. I was like oh, man, this is crazy.”
The NFL raised the threshold for a positive marijuana test to 35 ng/ml in the updated drug policy, which should be high enough to keep Marshall and any other player exposed to secondhand smoke from failing a drug test.
