The percentage of working Americans testing positive for drugs hit a two-decade high last year, driven by an increase in positive marijuana tests, as businesses might have loosened screening policies amid nationwide labor shortages.
Of the more than six million general workforce urine tests that Quest Diagnostics Inc., one of the country’s largest drug-testing laboratories, screened for marijuana last year, 3.9% came back positive, an increase of more than 8% from 2020, according to Quest’s annual drug-testing index.
That figure is up 50% since 2017. Since then, the number of states that legalized marijuana for recreational use grew to 18 from eight, plus the District of Columbia.
Despite the increase in positivity last year, fewer companies tested their employees for THC, the substance in marijuana primarily responsible for its effects, than in recent years.
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In my old field of construction, I have seen so many accidents from stupid stoners I agree with NOT allowing stoners on a jobsite. They ARE A DANGER to themselves and EVERYONE around them. Smoking dope or being around the odor makes me sick...THANK GOD! For those that say that is not true? opinions are like BUTT HOLES!
ReplyDeleteYou know that pot is legal in 18 states, right? And medical marijuana is legal in 37 states. So you're saying people should be fired for doing something that's legal?
ReplyDeleteAnd alcohol is legal in all 50 states, but if I showed up drunk to the job site I'd get canned. And I'd deserve it. And until the feds take it off the prohibited substances list, pot is still illegal, regardless of whether 18 states decide to not prosecute it.
ReplyDeleteThat "prohibition" thing worked pretty well in the 1920s, didn't it?
ReplyDeleteWeed will probably be legalized by the Feds in the next coupla weeks...
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