Darren McCarty, who won four Stanley Cups with the Detroit Red Wings, has formed a partnership with a cannabis company, saying he wants to broaden the advocacy he's already done since he kicked an addiction to alcohol in 2015 with the help of pot. An article from the Detroit Free Press states McCarty is now a partner in Pincanna, a cannabis company that is building a massive marijuana grow and processing operation in Pinconning, Michigan.
“I'm a four-time Stanley Cup winner, they're a 45-time Cannabis Cup winner," McCarty tells the Free Press. "I'm going to be the first athlete with a Stanley Cup and a Cannabis Cup.”
McCarty claims his liver was about to explode from decades of alcohol abuse in 2015 when a friend suggested he try pot. He says “something went off in my head and it was like my body said yes.” While he didn't quit drinking right away, he says a cannabis care-giver isolated him, and for seven days, gave him “gram after gram” of a potent marijuana concentrate.
“I was in a coma and when I woke up after seven days, I didn't have a physical addiction,” McCarty said. “I dropped to my knees and said, 'Thank God,'" he told the Free Press.
McCarty will be lending his name to some of Pincanna's products, ranging from a CBD rub and gummy, to a mellowing strain of marijuana and a high-potency, marijuana-infused chocolate peanut-butter candy bar that will “crush” those who choose to indulge.
Source: Detroit Free Press
