Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association recently announced significant changes to the Drug of Abuse provisions of the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.
They will go into effect this spring and are expected to continue to favor a treatment-based approach to drugs of abuse, with a particular emphasis on protecting players from lethal and addictive substances.
Among the changes are that natural cannabinoids, most notably marijuana, will be removed from the program’s list of what they consider drugs of abuse. Therefore, Minor League players will no longer be tested for it, as he been the case in the Majors for years.