Most employers in New York City would no longer be able to force job applicants to take drug tests for marijuana use, under a bill overwhelmingly approved this week by the City Council. If the drug-screening law is enacted, it would put New York in relatively uncharted territory. Several drug policy and employment experts said […]
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As marijuana gets legalized, companies drop THC testing of employees in Florida
At the Ed Morse empire of auto dealerships, testing for THC no longer is part of the hiring process. Ed Morse Automotive Group this month stopped screening for marijuana metabolites before offering positions to job candidates, says Teddy Morse, chairman and chief executive of the 1,200-employee company. Ed Morse Automotive Group still tests for signs of cocaine, heroin and […]
Testing positive for marijuana won’t get you fired at more than half of Colorado companies, survey says
A recent survey has found more Colorado employers are relaxing their marijuana testing policies and fewer of them are firing workers who test positive for weed compared to a few years ago. Only 48 percent of Colorado companies with “well-defined” drug testing policies will fire a worker for a first-time positive test for pot, according […]
How the Legalization of Marijuana Affects the Employer-Injured Worker Dynamic
By Denise Elliott and Paul Clouser Is there overlap between Pennsylvania’s 2-year-old Medical Marijuana Act and the much much older Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act? You bet there is. Just look at the list of qualifying medical conditions for which a Pennsylvania resident may obtain medical marijuana. Is there overlap between Pennsylvania’s 2-year-old Medical Marijuana Act […]
More employers are dropping marijuana from drug tests. Here’s why the trend in Iowa is a slow burn.
Job providers are going to greater lengths than they have in 20 years to find their best fits. They’re more proactive in recruiting. They’re trying to hire people faster. They’re even dropping certain drugs from employment screening in non-government, non-transportation occupations. Many more businesses have shifted away from mandatory marijuana testing in the past six months, said James […]
Closing the Gap between Cannabis and Employee Drug Testing Data
A study by Quest Diagnostics released earlier this month, the Quest Diagnositcs Drug Testing Index (DTI), reported that based on more than 10 million workplace drug tests, the number of workers who tested positive for marijuana is on a 5-year upward trajectory. Overall, the research found that the number of positive marijuana urine tests increased […]
Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America Part 5 (1984-1988)
Part of a year-long series, longtime cannabis law reform advocate and historian Allen St. Pierre examines monthly for Cannabis Business Executive the last fifty years of cannabis prohibition and the public advocacy efforts in America to bring about the ongoing and inescapable socio-political changes underway first at the state, and soon, federal level regarding cannabis policy. […]
Can Employers In California Still Test for Marijuana?
Recreational marijuana sales in California started in January, causing many employers in the state to re-evaluate their substance-abuse and drug-testing policies. But the rules governing marijuana and the workplace haven’t really changed … yet. Employers should note that they don’t have to tolerate on-the-job marijuana consumption or intoxication. They should think about recreational marijuana like […]
Drug Testing Post Pot Prohibition
Drug testing, one of the major components of the government’s war on some drugs, like the unpopular policy itself, may be waning as cannabis commerce replaces prohibition. According to the American Management Association, drug testing in the workplace hit a peak in the late 1990s*. Back then the federal government, under Presidents Reagan and Bush 1.0, […]
