{"id":19353,"date":"2019-12-10T12:44:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/?p=19353"},"modified":"2019-12-10T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:46:54","slug":"mlb-to-stop-testing-minor-leaguers-for-cannabis-as-part-of-new-drug-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/2019\/12\/10\/mlb-to-stop-testing-minor-leaguers-for-cannabis-as-part-of-new-drug-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB To Stop Testing Minor Leaguers For Cannabis As Part Of New Drug Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gettyimages-72317455.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gettyimages-72317455.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gettyimages-72317455-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/2019\/08\/10\/shane-victorino-announces-hawaii-cannabis-partnership\/\">Major Leage Basebal<\/a>l has decided to stop testing minor league players for cannabis per a new report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/news\/mlb-to-stop-testing-minor-leaguers-for-marijuana-as-part-of-new-drug-agreement-report-says\/\">Per CBS Sports<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>MLB would also remove marijuana from the league&#8217;s list of banned substances for minor-league players,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/1204228043339751424\" target=\"_blank\">according to The Athletic&#8217;s Ken Rosenthal<\/a>. Players on the 40-man roster are not tested for marijuana, but non-40-man roster minor leaguers are, and several are suspended for marijuana use each season. There were 13 such suspensions in 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Under the current drug agreement non-40-man roster minor leaguers are suspended 25 games for their first positive test for a &#8220;drug of abuse,&#8221; 50 games for a second positive test, 100 games for a third positive test, and are banned for life for a fourth positive test. Former&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/MIL\/milwaukee-brewers\/\">Brewers<\/a>&nbsp;reliever&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/fantasy\/baseball\/players\/1630082\/jeremy-jeffress\/\">Jeremy Jeffress<\/a>&nbsp;is among the notable players suspended three times for marijuana use in the minors.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news comes on the heels that MLB was looking to remove various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/amp.usatoday.com\/amp\/4382518002\">minor league<\/a> clubs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Leage Baseball has decided to stop testing minor league players for cannabis per a new report. Per CBS Sports MLB would also remove marijuana from the league&#8217;s list of banned substances for minor-league players,&nbsp;according to The Athletic&#8217;s Ken Rosenthal. Players on the 40-man roster are not tested for marijuana, but non-40-man roster minor leaguers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,6],"tags":[4921,4920],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19353"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19367,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19353\/revisions\/19367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}