Young: It was medical marijuana ... no, no really

Dmitri Young, the Oakland County Cruisers' vice president/bench coach who was recently arrested in Bloomington, Ill., on a drug charge, told the Detroit Free Press that the marijuana he was in possession of when arrested was for medical reasons:

“Since retirement, I’ve been in a lot of serious pain,” he told the Free Press in a telephone interview Wednesday from Florida. “From my quads to my back to anxiety from my mother’s death, it takes a toll. I didn’t want to use pills. I had already been to rehab before and knew I didn’t want to be on opiates. So, in talking with physicians, we decided this was the best way to go.”

Unfortunately, he said, “I used poor judgment. And I have to pay the consequences.”

Medcial reasons? C'mon.

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