Major-League Stoners: Why Pro Baseball is Full of Marijuana
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The pay is so low it should be illegal. The bus rides are so long, they are illegal. And unlike their well-compensated and chartered-flight-riding counterparts in Major League Baseball, minor league ballplayers canāt even get away with smoking marijuana.
Before a minor-leaguer can earn $12,000 a year for a spring and summer of cramming into buses for 13-hour rides with other hopefuls, their pee is tested. An end to that ignominy is just one of the many, many benefits of promotion to the show.
When youāre on a big-league teamās 40-man roster, you can smoke all you want with no fear of discovery via a drug testāand, according to one former professional baseball player, many, many do[ā¦] Read the rest: http://hightimes.com/culture/major-league-stoners-why-pro-baseball-is-full-of-marijuana/