Former WWE star Sean “Val Venis” Morley recently appeared on The Two Man Power Trip Of Wrestling podcast. Here are the highlights.
WWE testing for Marijuana and fining Superstars for usage as part of the Wellness Policy:
To me it’s not a stringent Wellness Policy at all. I could drive a Mack Truck through their Wellness Policy. The reality of the situation is I was on those pills and I was testing positive for those pills yet I passed my drug test every single time. The reason I passed my drug test every single time was because as soon as I’d test positive for Hydrocodone, Dr. Black from Omega Sciences who is the main Doctor at the testing facility would call me up and ask for a valid prescription for Hydro codon pills. I would send him a valid prescription and two weeks later I would get a letter in the mail saying CONGRATULATIONS you passed your wellness exam. The fact that you have a valid prescription for these pills doesn’t change the fact that people get addicted to them and die. “Test” had a prescription for them. Almost every wrestler has had a prescription for them. They don’t test for it, they say they test for the quantity of hydro codon in your system. That’s bullsh*t they don’t test for the quantity they test for the presence. Even though you may have a prescription for 90 (pills) you may have 1000 sitting in your house right now. The testing policy is a step in the right direction but still we are allowing WWE talent to utilize Heroin in a pill yet we will fine them $2500 every time they test positive for THC.
What brought on his pursuit of educating himself on Cannabis:
Up until I was about 27-28 years old I was very much anti-marijuana. I was anti-drugs period at the time. I started noticing there was a lot of guys that I had wrestled with or had shared a locker room with at one point in time or that I became really good friends with that have ended up with their feet in the grave and eventually six feet under. It seemed to happen over and over again and one thing that I noticed was the fact that none of my friends, none of my colleagues that were using marijuana instead of taking pharmaceutical pills that none of them were having any medical issues whatsoever. They were still in the gym training, they weren’t waking up hungover and weren’t dying at an accelerated rate by any means. Nobody died from marijuana and in contrast anybody that was utilizing pharmaceutical pain medication, anti-inflammatories, anti-anxiety medications, sleeping medications and any kind of pharmaceutical drugs that I think were pushed down all athletes throats not just in WWE but all athletes throats (did). You just recognize that it’s like common sense. These people were falling off like flies being fumigated from a home. I started to recognize these instances to be FACT, people using marijuana were staying alive and not only alive but were staying healthy and people using big pharmaceutical medications were dying at an accelerated rate.
Full Episode Download Link:
http://tmptow.podomatic.com/entry/2016-01-19T04_19_22-08_00
