This is a few months old, but I don't think anyone shared it... Can DRUGS mitigate the effects of CTE in football players? This hippie thinks so (although a PubMed search didn't exactly reveal a glut of peer-reviewed evidence in his favor--10 papers since 1975). It seems to be based on a SPARTY study of the antioxidant effects of THC in the brain to reduce deposits of the dastardly tau protein, which seems plausible enough. There are other non-illegal antioxidants that may work as well, however.