“The utility of using isolated marijuana use as a criterion for urine drug screening appears limited in benefit but rife with inequitable potential to harm,” authors concluded.
Topic: Drug Testing
Judges opined that the state’s employee protection law only provides protections for activities defined as legal under both state and federal law.
Employers were least likely to engage in drug testing if they resided in a state that has legalized the adult use of marijuana.
Federal statistics have identified the suspension of over 72,000 truck drivers as a result of failed drug tests; over half of those failed tests were for marijuana.
Nine percent of respondents acknowledged that they had “eliminated job screenings or drug tests” as a way to either attract or keep their employees.”
Employees who test positive for marijuana will no longer be sanctioned absent “articulable symptoms of cannabis impairment.”
The League announced that it will “extend the suspension of random testing for marijuana for the 2021-22 season and focus our random testing program on performance-enhancing products and drugs of abuse.”
“We support removing cannabis from the Controlled Substance Act,” Amazon stated.