Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former.
Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.
The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.
Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.
In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.
It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.
Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'
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