The NFL's Ricky Williams is being featured in an upcoming Sports Illustrated documentary and a special edition article chronicling his life over the past five years since he retired from the National Football League. The film and article come out on Wednesday, July 13, 2016.
The film, “Ricky
Williams Takes the High Road,” is the first in-depth look at Williams’s life
today, five years after his NFL career ended. He reflects on his clashes with
the NFL drug testing program, his support of marijuana as a medicinal tool in
the NFL and the anguish he felt as his image was tarnished because of his
public support of the drug.
“It’s kind of true, but not the way that people see it, that I quit
football to go smoke weed,” Williams says in the film.
The film also examines how Williams has become an entrepreneur in the
marijuana industry. SI’s cameras followed Williams in several different
locations, including the 2016 “Spannabis” World Cannabis Conference in
Barcelona and the Williams family home in Austin, Texas.
You can watch a preview of the film above.
