phoenixnewtimes.com PHOENIX NEW TIMES NOV 10TH–NOV 16TH, 2022 State Licensed Dispensaries & Doctor Certifications | CANNABIS | Revenant MJ Retired Reefer Super Bowl champ Jim McMahon and former NFL players expand cannabis line to Arizona. BY MIKE MADRIAGA Revenant MJ brand of cannabis products into the Valley. So yes, NFL fans can smoke a joint A inspired by pro football players while watching all the Sunday action on TV. It might even help fans feel less anxious about their wagers on the games. Sports betting is big in Arizona, after all. McMahon, Kyle Turley, and Eben Britton launched their brand of flower, distillate and pre-rolls in California in July 2021. The former pro athletes brought it to the Valley in August when they met fans and signed autographs at The Mint dispen- sary in Tempe. The Mint sells Revenant’s Skywalker OG, Kush Cookies, and King Louis in flower or boxes of five pre-rolls. “We really wanted to bring cannabis as medicine to the forefront in the cannabis trio of former NFL players — including Scottsdale resi- dent and Super Bowl champion Jim McMahon — has expanded their Scottsdale resident Jim McMahon. legalization realm,” Britton told Phoenix New Times. “It’s a 10,000-year-old medi- cine, as far as I know.” “Kyle, Jim, and [I] have been speaking about cannabis as medicine for the football players for a while now,” he added. “The number one issue facing NFL football players is CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy.” CTE is a progressive degenerative brain disorder that occurs in people with a history of repetitive head impact, often received during contact sports, such as football, military service, or other activities involving blows to the head. Britton believes that cannabis is “the only remedy on the planet that helps to heal the physical tissue in the brain. The federal government has a patent on cannabinoids, which have neuroprotectants and antioxidants.” Britton was drafted by the NFL in 2009 and played offensive tackle for the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Chicago Bears. Before that, he attended and played football for the University of Arizona. In 2016, two years after Britton left the NFL, he told the New York Post that he played three NFL games while high on marijuana. “My performances were solid, and I felt really good after,” Britton said. The cannabis sometimes relieved “psycholog- ical distress or sciatica or pain in my shoul- ders,” he added. McMahon, who quarterbacked the Chicago Bears to a Super Bowl win in 1986, moved to Scottsdale in 2010, the same year that Arizona legalized medical marijuana. “We started Revenant in California two >> p 37 years ago, and now we’re coming 35
