Posted on 01/04/2019 10:48:24 AM PST by nikos1121
A 2018 survey of employers across the U.S. found that 5% are considering removing marijuana from their workplace drug testing panel in the next 12 months[1]. Perhaps more frightening is the number of employers who are on the fence about the removal of marijuana from their panels – a shocking 23% of employers from the same survey. At first glance, removing marijuana from the panel may seem like a good idea – but is it really?
Aren’t There Pros to Removing Marijuana From my Testing Panel?
Undoubtedly, an employer could identify pros in deciding to stop testing for marijuana in their workplace. The removal of marijuana might bring down the costs of drug testing – with fewer marijuana positives comes faster hiring and positions fill quicker.
Perhaps the biggest perceived pro to dropping marijuana from workplace drug testing is the freedom that employers have to hire more workers. The most common complaint seen in the media about workplace marijuana testing is that it rules out an ever-growing class of potential employees. An associate professor of economics, Abigail Wozniak, recently stated:
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Here in West Georgia, Drug testing (hair) is showing 10-15% positive for marijuana, which is widely grown in the area.
In short, marijuana use is on the increase, but is also a high cause of injuries, loss time, absenteeism and poor work effort.
For your interest.
It’s also still illegal
How do Federal contractors/vendors comply with “zero tolerance drug policy” rules these days?
Why not random drug testing for Congress and the Prez? And high-level bureaucrats..?
head’s up- apparently gettign medical marijuana can result in loss of ‘right to own guns’
Medical or Recreational Marijuana Means No Gun Rights
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/11/john-boch/medical-marijuana-means-no-gun-rights/
so.....
Get run over by a co-worker in a forklift who has been smoking crack, bad.
Get run over by a co-worker in a forklift who has been smoking weed, good.
Kind of undermines the entire rationale for drug testing in the first place.
Cannabis shows on tests for weeks or months after any psychoactive effects cease.
If all tests of alcohol intoxication registered positive results for weeks after the last drink the data and conclusions drawn from it would be equally useless.
It’s very difficult, expensive and almost impossible to test for mental health disorders.
So drug testing is the next best thing.
There ain't no 'apparently' about it. Marijuana use automatically makes you a prohibited person and not only can you not purchase guns through an FFL, you are not legally allowed to possess guns or ammunition.
still illegal on the federal level.
Since I’m from Seattle I now have a lot of friends and family members that use Marijuana like many people use alcohol. And all of them are professionals, one of which is a second level manager at Microsoft. And most of them were doing it in the decade before it became legal. The law didn’t change their activity at all other than maybe how they acquire it.
It’s returned to the same level as it was before prohibition, just like what happened to alcohol a long time ago.
I’d hire a person that uses marijuana but never drinks before I’d hire a person that drinks but never uses marijuana, all other factors being equal.
Disclaimer - I have not touched the evil weed since 1977.
Depends on the job. If someone smokes weed on their days off, they should be able to work at Subway and make e a sandwich. However, they should not drive a Subway train.
Yeah, a person could pull a muscle reaching for the Cheetos or mebbe fall off the couch.
Imagine your pilot being exempt from being tested for marijuana.
It seems like testing for pot is a waste of time for those employees.
Kind of undermines the entire rationale for drug testing in the first place.
It's already undermined unless they're also testing for the impairing drug alcohol; how many employers have ever done that?
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