I realized just today that Major League Baseball does not punish its players for using non-performance enhancing drugs, even if they are illegal outside of baseball. White Sox SP Freddy Garcia tested positive for marijuana while playing for Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic. According to International Baseball rules, it is illegal to use marijuana, a cannabis plant containing the psychoactive compound THC, but MLB has no rules against it. Commissioner Bud Selig says he wants to abolish steroids in baseball, in part, because he wants to let the public know that they are bad for kids. Well... The NFL has one of the toughest drug testing policies in all of sports. Miami Dolphins RB Ricky Williams was suspended for 4 weeks in 2005 for his second positive test of marijuana, and is officially ineligible for the entire 2006 season after losing his appeal last week regarding a third failed test. It was confirmed that Williams' latest setback was not for marijuana, and speculation is that it was cocaine. If the MLB Player's Association is willing to accept a full one year suspension for a second positive steroids test, they should at least be willing to listen to a rule change involving all drugs. After taking criticism for being reactive instead of proactive involving the steroids investigation (the United States Congress was involved, threatening to take its own action if Selig did not start testing and suspending players), Selig is in a position to show baseball fans he can instigate his own action. I don't know of any employers who would allow me to work for them if they knew I was using marijuana or cocaine. MLB should mimic the NFL and suspend a player who gets caught using any drug that one cannot legally use at home.