Josh Gordon is not Eligible for Reinstatement until June 2018.

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UPDATE:  Josh Gordon has been reinstated, despite having not complied with the NFL drug policy as recently as June 2017.   I can't explain the legal rational, as it seems cut and dried to me that he should have been kept out until next year.  Maybe the Commissioner wants to cut the Browns a break by not enforcing the policy.  I don't see where in the current drug policy and collective bargaining agreement he is allowed to do that, but as a society we are moving away from banning marijuana, and in some states it is legal.  So it's probably the right thing to have a less draconian drug policy, although that is not the way that the current NFL drug policy is written.  No matter, here's hoping that Josh Gordon complies with the requirements to stay clean and sober, and gets his life back on course. 

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  Many of my fellow Browns fans believe that Josh Gordon will be soon reinstated to the Cleveland Browns.  For the record, I believe that the NFL marijuana policy needs to be liberalized.   However, that has not happened yet.  

     The current policy is available on the net, and shows that players in Stage 3 (that would be Gordon) are suspended for a year in the event that they fail to get tested.  I've appended the pertinent section so that you can read it for yourself.
       Josh missed a drug test in June 2017.  That's an automatic one year suspension.  No time off for good behavior, no time off if we believe that he didn't actually take drugs, so special exemption for marijuana.    The suspension can not be lifted until June 2018 at the earliest.  There's no decision to be made.  There's not going to be any review, no interview, nothing. 
    But didn't the Commissioner say last winter that Josh could re-apply for reinstatement in September?  Yes, but that assumed he would comply with the drug policy.   Josh did not comply, so that is off the table.  The rule is, you fail to take a drug test, that's another one year suspension.  

    But feel free to disbelieve it.  All I ask is that you not blame me for Josh's situation, because I had nothing to do with writing the policy, I'm just reading it to you.  

   Without further ado, here it is, from the 2016 NFLPA NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE POLICY AND PROGRAM ON SUBSTANCES OF ABUSE,  as agreed by the National Football League Players Association and the National Football League Management Council Section 1.5.3 paragraph B: 

A Player who: fails to cooperate with testing, treatment, evaluation or other requirements imposed on him by this  (2016) Policy or fails to comply with his Treatment Plan, both as determined by the Medical Director; or who has a Positive Test Result, will be banished from the NFL for a minimum period of one (1) calendar year.