Former NBA All-Star, Oregon weed farmer Cliff Robinson talks marijuana

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Former NBA All-Star, Oregon weed farmer Cliff Robinson talks marijuana's potential



An upcoming marijuana business conference will, to NBA fans, feature a very familiar face.
The 2016 Cannabis Collaborative Conference, which takes place Feb. 3 and Feb. 4 at the Portland Expo Center, will host former Blazers great Cliff Robinson. The former NBA All-Star has become a cannabis advocate and will address the expected crowd of 2,500 attendees.

The conference will provide a chance for Robinson — who played 18 seasons in the league, made the NBA All-Star team in 1994 and was also a contestant on the CBS show "Survivor" — a chance to rebrand himself.

"It's an opportunity for me to get out there and tell people a little bit about myself outside of basketball," Robinson said. "People in Oregon know me as a basketball player, but I want to distill the stigma around cannabis, the misperception that athletes and cannabis are incompatible."

In at least one sense, that's spot on: Robinson agrees that football players or others who engage in contact sports might do well to treat themselves with cannabis as opposed to prescription painkillers.

"Cannabis is definitely a more positive alternative to pharmaceuticals at the end of the day," he said. "Those are synthetics. I'm talking about something that's natural that can bring the outcomes you're looking for, be it for muscle tension or relaxation or preparedness. There are a whole lot of different things that are beneficial."

Full article: http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/2016/01/former-nba-all-star-oregon-weed-farmer-cliff.html

In his playing days, Cliff Robinson was known as Uncle Cliffy.

Now as he begins a new business venture, the former UConn star also has a new nickname: Uncle Spliffy.

That's the name he has registered for his upcoming foray into the marijuana business; the registered domain name currently features a marijuana leaf and a promise that the rest of the site is "Coming Soon." Robinson, along with a group of investors, will open a grow operation in Portland, Oregon, according to a story in the Portland Business Journal, with plans to have a product by the end of the year.

Full article: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/14621057/cliff-robinson-open-marijuana-business-called-uncle-spliffy