Those pursuits came after his most familiar one, as a Heisman Trophy–winning and All-Pro running back-just one of many connected stops on what Williams calls his “path.”Īnother protracted drag from the J and Williams heads inside the convention center in the name of. This marks Williams’s latest experience, after involvements (some but not all of them ongoing) in sports broadcasting, photography, fatherhood, coaching, yoga, Ayurveda and other holistic medicines, Tai Chi, massage therapy, The Celebrity Apprentice, herbology, psychology and global exploration. This is what we’re here to do-to have all these experiences.” “I’m a Gemini,” he says, “and if we’re getting it right, we’re saying Wow at least five times a day.

This is a typical Ricky conversation, deep and cosmic, tangential to everyone there but him.

The 39-year-old Williams is deep into a conversation about astrology-the positions of stars and the movements of planets, how the assumptions we’re born with interact with the lives we’re born into. Vendors sell marijuana-infused beer, energy drinks and espressos, not to mention the cookies, brownies and licorice ropes. . . . T-shirts read RARE DANKNESS and DIE HIGH and NICE PEOPLE TAKE DRUGS. Reggae beats thump from towering speakers. It’s March, and Williams is in Barcelona at something called Spannabis-part trade show, part research conference and 100% festival of copious cannabis consumption. He takes the handoff, inhales deeply and blows out a plume of smoke so thick that it temporarily shields him from the sun. He joint moves from smoker to smoker, puff-puff-passing its way to Ricky Williams.

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