No more urine tests: Proposed California law would end most workplace marijuana tests

SF Gate ^ | March 1, 2021 | by Andrew Sheeler, The Sacramento Bee

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[RomanSoldier19]

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[ClearCase_guy]

Also exempted would be employers in the building and construction trades.

Why? Is it because drug use can affect job performance?

[mewzilla]

There are also insurance and liability issues.

Talk to contractors here, I live in Upstate NY, and you’ll find that it’s a nightmare trying to hire someone who’s not a pothead.

[Hot Tabasco]

"It is those tests that we want to ban, because they don't detect anything related to impairment,"

Companies don't just test for pot, there's other things like coke, heroin, meth, etc.......

I worked for a tier 1 auto stamping plant in Detroit and mandatory random drug testing for employees on probation was a part of the disciplinary control process.

The plant was a dangerous environment with all the presses and hi-lo's buzzing around. You don't want someone working in the shop who is high........

[Kozak]

This is going to stimulate testing that actually shows impairment.
Either a breathe, blood or saliva test that correlates with a blood level of THC and indicates whether the person is actively impaired.

For example. imagine if that alcohol test you took while driving showed you had consumed alcohol in the last 2 weeks. Thats what current urine and hair testing for THC shows.

[mewzilla]

I don’t want someone who’s high installing my nat gas furnace, either.

Or doing my surgery.

Or driving on my highways.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Update on the WAR ON DRUGS - Drugs won

[Shadylake]

It’s more like Vietnam. No so much that we can’t win.. The will is lost.

[Sir_Humphrey]

I don’t want someone who is drunk doing those things either. But we legalize alcohol which is exponentially more harmful than pot

[Gen.Blather]

Can’t get a tree cutter job in my county without a weekly drug test. The insurance companies insist. With no testing virtually all legitimate tree companies would go out of business.

[faithhopecharity]

Good!

[HighSierra5]

Who would you rather have pilot your jetliner? A pilot that smokes a joint or one that smokes a cigar?

[LouAvul]

But we legalize alcohol which is exponentially more harmful than pot

Go peddle your drug agenda someplace else. You're not welcome here. Just because you're "tolerated", doesn't mean you're welcome.

[stanne]

Maybe newsom needs to rearrange funding to find some of the 85 bil he’s giving to the new wave of illegal immigrants. He still doesn’t have it. Last I checked ca was 55 B in debt.

“Talk to contractors here, I live in Upstate NY, and you’ll find that it’s a nightmare trying to hire someone who’s not a pothead.“

Wow.

[Sir_Humphrey]

Drug agenda??LOL. What the hell does that even mean? And who are you to say who is welcome and who is not? Do you own the site?

Besides, I am not the only Freeper here who has no issue with occasionally smoking and yes enjoying pot. It's legal now in most states so there in not much you can do about it.

[IamConservative]

Go peddle your drug agenda someplace else. You're not welcome here. Just because you're "tolerated", doesn't mean you're welcome.

Has there been a change in ownership that has not been announced? Or, is this a self-appointment to the morality police?

I support legalizing marijuana. The OP is correct, alcohol is many times more harmful to society than marijuana. Guess you'll be doing a lot more tolerating.

[mmichaels1970]

Submitting your bodily fluids to get and keep a job should be abolished. Treasure trove of people’s dna out there to be passed around.

[mmichaels1970]

Besides, I am not the only Freeper here who has no issue with occasionally smoking and yes enjoying pot.

I HATE pot. But I LOVE privacy. And I support your right to it. 👍

[Sir_Humphrey]

Merci Beaucoup