Golden State Warriors starters Draymond Green and Klay Thompson have stepped in to support their head coach Steve Kerr and his opinion in the use of medical marijuana.

Kerr mentioned on a CSN Bay Area podcast last Friday that he used marijuana for back pain over the past two years.

“I guess maybe I could even get in some trouble for this, but I've actually tried [marijuana] twice during the last year and a half when I've been going through this pain, this chronic pain that I've been dealing with,” Kerr told the host Monte Poole.

The answer was prompted after talking about football and injuries that players face in a daily basis, whether they happen during practice, in the weight room, or in actual games. When asked if he hoped the NFL would change its stance on the drug, he was firm to assert his belief that if it works to help people with severe pain, it could be a better option than other alternatives such as Vicodin.

Kerr's defensive anchor, Green, offered some of his own thoughts on the matter.

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“I’ve never been a guy who has done it, period,” Green told ESPN's Chris Haynes. “So, I can’t say that I know much about it, but from what I hear from whether it’s football guys, I think a lot of them do it because of all the pain that they go through. And when you read Steve’s comments, it makes a lot of sense. When you look at something that comes from the earth, any vegetable that comes from the earth, they encourage you to eat it. So, I guess it does make a little sense as opposed to giving someone a manufactured pill. If something takes your pain away like some of these pills do, it can’t be that good for you.”

The 6-foot-7 power forward read the story through his phone right before answering to the media.

“The only thing I can really think of is that it’s from the earth. It’s grown from the earth,” Green said. “So, maybe it is better than a Vicodin, like [Kerr] said. … It usually takes a guy like Steve to do something like that to where it even starts the conversation. And then you start the conservation, stuff is still at least three or four years out. Who knows?”

Thompson followed up specifying that his approval of the drug is merely for treatment purposes, not recreational ones.

“But not recreation use,” he said. “That should not be of its use ever, but there’s obviously a medicinal side to [marijuana] that people are finding out have benefits, especially people in really high pain.”