I guy i worked with for a bit was a former pro body builder. Phoenix has a huge pro training scene, and he was in it. He knew Gordon from the gym and trainer and hung out with him a bit.
This is 2nd hand knowledge, but still pretty reliable. Gordon is well liked, nice guy. He has some depression he deals with. I understand there are rules and some think its easy to deal with just not smoking weed. For me that would be the case, but for others its a matter of life and death some times and just takes some empathy and understnading to realize this.
Most days Gordon can manage, just fine, without weed. He is in control and his career is mor eimportant. But as OI said, deppression happens every day. Some bad days you just want to end your life..not often, but depression is very serious. It is life threatening. Its just not as easy to say, well dont kill yourself. Its a complete abandoment of trying to understnad mental illness. So that day, he cant deal, he either smokes and risk getting caught or maybe killing himself.
But here is the thing, weed doesnt make you fun faster. It is legal in 36 states, that is 72% of the country. By population its 80%. Yes i think its funking hypocritical that Gordon is demonized like if a football player had to take sterioids recovering from lung cancer. It was taken to live. Just that simple.
Actually weed is worse because it doesnt help your performance, so why ban it unless you are just a complete asshole. But thats it, Goddell is a complete asshole.