Ok as a percent of the population 10 million is 10/330 = 3%. Its called math. Try it.
3% use marijuana, 97% do not.
The unemployment rate is near 3% in many areas do you see a correlation?
Plus that was the number who would admit to using it in the month prior. I am sure the real number is much higher if you figure in the ones who would not admit and the ones who smoked it but just not in the prior month.
The MJ use is much higher than 3%. But thats just MJ. Add in all the other goodies and the number of people unemployable because they cannot pass a drug test is quite high.
Then overlap the ones who are illiterate, innumerate, do not have a reliable means of transport, will not take orders, or think they should not start at the bottom , who don’t like shift work/overtime/evenings/heat/humidity/cold or actual physics labor or think welfare is a better deal, and you have run out of employable people and higher pay won’t cure most of those ills.
Hill Billy Elegy is a true story.
3% use marijuana, 97% do not.
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Even assuming that drug use was entirely random, is 330 million the number over 12?
The number is, however, not random. I’d say that in a variety of places that I have worked without random drug testing, that 3% is low for once-a-month user employees.
Further, a heavily-weighted portion of the “3%” is within the 5% “unemployed”.
Many, many, of the employable are already employed.
All of that said, employers have not yet made the adjustment to bringing in untrained people to do complex tasks. They’ve been in an environment where there is a labor supply with a surplus of moderately-to-highly trained competing for lesser positions, for nearly a decade.
3% use marijuana, 97% do not.
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Even assuming that drug use was entirely random, is 330 million the number over 12?
The number is, however, not random. I’d say that in a variety of places that I have worked without random drug testing, that 3% is low for once-a-month user employees.
Further, a heavily-weighted portion of the “3%” is within the 5% “unemployed”.
Many, many, of the employable are already employed.
All of that said, employers have not yet made the adjustment to bringing in untrained people to do complex tasks. They’ve been in an environment where there is a labor supply with a surplus of moderately-to-highly trained competing for lesser positions, for nearly a decade.
There’s also a gross culture of over-certification amongst employers - with legal consequences for having employees without them.
MJ & worse where I live. Meth everywhere.