Martellus Bennett estimates 89 percent of NFL players smoke weed

Now he's retired, Martellus Bennett isn't too worried about revealing how many NFL players he believes use marijuana.

"I want to say about 89 percent (of NFL players smoke weed)," Bennett told the "Simms & Lefkoe" podcast.

Bennett suggested players would rather take the healthier route of the natural drug marijuana than the opioids and painkillers prescribed by NFL training staffs.

"There's medical marijuana. So its like, there's times of the year where your body just hurts so bad that you don't want to just be popping pills all the time," said Bennett. "It ruins your liver, all these anti-inflammatory (drugs) that you take for so long that, like, it starts to eat at your liver and your kidneys and things like that.

"The human made (pills). God made weed."

The former Super Bowl champion also discussed the global disparity in the access to and legality of marijuana.

"I think its crazy that guys have to do drug deals across the world, and then in California (where it is legal to purchase), you can just go to 'In 'N Out' and then right into the store."