NBA players will no longer be drug tested for cannabis.
Topic: Drug Testing
The agency explained that the “rationale for considering the change … includes the consensus opinion that cannabis is not a performance-enhancing drug.”
“A lot more research is needed to show that a cannabis breathalyzer can produce useful results,” the study’s lead author concluded.
Since 2020, over 100,000 commercially licensed truck drivers have tested positive for past exposure to marijuana, leading to driver shortages and supply chain issues.
The new agreement codifies changes first implemented on a temporary basis in 2020.
Clinicians ordered drug tests to be performed on Black newborns at nearly four times the rate of other children, the study found.
Hispanic patients were twice as likely to be mandated to undergo testing and Black patients were four times as likely to be ordered to do so.
Findings showed that the daily use of oral hemp-derived CBD extracts consistently resulted in positive urine IA [immunoassay] screening results.