Marijuana laws challenging workplace drug testing
Marijuana laws challenging workplace drug testing
More than a third of American private employers have drug testing policies for their workers in accordance with the federal drug-free workplace act. But, times have changed since that law was passed 25 years ago. 23 states have legalized medical marijuana and voters in Colorado and Washington State have legalized recreational pot. CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman joins “CBS This Morning: Saturday” to discuss how employers balance “zero tolerance” with these more lenient laws.
Here’s a solution, stop testing people.
just like alcohol; be responsi-fucking-ble
Hey cbs the government never gave us citizens a vote on makong weed illegal. But now they have gotten so greedy they figured if they legalize rec. Use they can get all the tax dollars and wages taxes and pocket that money too just like alll the rest of the money that disappears in government and NOONE IS EVER HELD ACCOUNTABLE AND QUESTIONED THEY SIMPLY ANNOUNCE MONEY IS GONE THEN LEAN ON THE CITIZENS TO BAIL OUT EVERY CORP THAT DOESNT PAY TAXES YET THE CEO STILL GETS HIS BONUS ..YEAH REAL TWISTED AND YOU MEDIA. FOLKS ARE LIKE A TALKING HEAD.
CBS Corp. is in New York where marijuana is illegal! This talk show is telling us in Colorado that we need to keep up drug testing alive and well! Just an FYI: A lot of jobs that require a drug test don’t even pay that much.
I’d advise everyone to do hard drugs that are out of your system in 2-3 days , marijuana users are bad people .
Its an obvious double legal standard and selective enforcement of work impairment policies for it to be perfectly legal to come to work with a hangover (which is alcohol poisoning) or to drink at office parties or get drunk with coworkers, but for smoking marijuana outside of the workplace to be grounds for dismissal. States will either have to make alcohol illegal or marijuana legal.
That settles it, the world is flat!
This pathetic behavior is the scheming of fools. This is discrimination where is the justice where is the equality? Let farmers grow their crops! Farmers are one of the most important pieces in society. Who puts the clothes on your backs the food on your table you sit and drown in an office cubicle being poisoned by bud light then you go and discriminate against the cannabis user are we not to love our neighbors as ourselves? Shame on you who become bitter with a marijuana user yet favor the alcoholic you have brought judgment upon your generations do you know the laws of the lords kingdom have you heard the good news
The problem is talking about this like its an issue, there is no problem if you don’t make it.
I think marijuana smoking is not bad it just makes people intolerent of competitive bs on the job !! I think code of conduct on the job is critical !! but marijuana may amplify the anger from sublte or overt competitive harassment on the job !!
Fuckin employers need to stop invading people’s privacy 💨💨💨💨😋🤔
Media always disguises itself as “trying to help us”! B.S., the media is always trying to undermine or attempting to limit our freedoms under the guise of just trying to help us!
Potheads hurt no one except for the occasional, extremely rare case!
The powers that be should try to make adjustments for the changing times! Don’t try to change the attitude of the public against pot!
This is why law enforcement is unliked! Stop protecting me from the boogeyman scenarios! Law enforcement should protect us from having our rights limited! Not promote propaganda to make it easier to arrest, prosecute and confiscate our personal property, so law enforcement can take our possessions and then make money when they sell our crap at auction!
That’s more likely how you’ll be effected if they have their way! Not by some “dangerous pothead behind the wheel”!
You don’t wanna use marijuana, don’t!
I really hate the media!!! Bunch of instigating idiots! Btw I don’t even use pot, but I don’t want my rights limited! I’m not a child!
my dr actually recommended sure gel
it should’ve never been illegal in the first place!!!!!!!!!! everybody knows it’s medicine and all the ailments it helps and cures! thanks big pharma for you pos are the ones in the way of it being legalized! all you scumbags are just legalized drug dealers and most of your legal meds are horrible on the body and the side effects are way worse then the symptoms it is used for to treat! big pharmas got to go!!!!!!!!!!!
I definitely agree with her💯
End proabition
Its very simple, you follow federal laws.
http://lawyers.norml.org/oklahoma
test all goverment
>being this stupid
THC metabolizes before the day is over.
THC-COOH- stays in your system as a metabolite that has NO psychoactive properties.
Drug tests check for THC-COOH-, not THC. Learn your material before you hatemonger
It’s in your system for months but it doesn’t impair your ability a day after haha, Unless you smoke and then immediately fall asleep you aren’t going to wake up "Impaired" In the morning. You are clearly inflating marijuana facts to try and get people against it, it almost depends upon the person entirely. No one has the same side effects.
So they debated this for years and bring us no solution… Basically people still can’t smoke if
they want to work…same story having to avoid drug tests. And if you are in an accident at work, and you take a drug test, they will blame the accident on the THC that is in your system.
simple why the fuck made it difficult… apply the same to alcahol .and meds. thecnically some prescription are synthetic forms of meth,heroin,depressants ,stimulants you name it lol. and these as listed above are totaly legal and allowed in your piss as long as you got the script…so again why make it complicated. the only diff b/t medical and rec is the tax ,it is diff . rec is higher tax…and thats were the difrences ends, in laymens terms.
So is it it still a zero policy even tho they federally legilized medical marijuana cause i recently started working union and im scared to lose my job
There should be a 12 hour law because after approximately 12 hours psychoactive ingredients like THC and Alcohol no longer affect the person, the products are still testible but are not in any way affecting judgment, There is a certain amount of both THC and Alcohol that is within impairing levels and that can be told by a blood screen and if that certain level is not reached the person should not face any work consequences because they are not impaired by the drug that is in their system at that time however if the person is within impairing levels than the person could face consequences but keep in mind no one is in danger if its like a retail employee, however, if it’s a doctor, taxi driver, bus driver, construction worker, firefighter, or police officer that’s a different story because if they are under the influence people’s lives could be in jeopardy.
employers should only drug test if there is a stupid accident that should have not happened
My employer went from urine to swob test basically making it easier for weed users
But is weed imparing ? (Playing devil’s advocate)
Want a job making $10 an hour taking things out of boxes and putting them on shelves? Drug test. Hour long questionnaire. Background check. Social media check.
Want to be a US senator who makes six figures and has access to legal insider trading? No drug test. No tests of any kind. No background check. Nothing.
Good job America. Doing great.
this woman deserves to die
She says you can’t measure impairment, but that is not true. If someone is impaired they won’t be able to do their work on the same level as when they are not. As long as someone is being productive and shows no signs of impairment, then there is no reason to suspect them of being drunk or stoned.
I wanna know corporate test results too…they have mine
Their list of side effects is absolute bullshit.
Sadly, god failed his drug test. He never showed up to the lab.
why is this a tuff dilemma ? Take Cannabis off drug panels in Legal states for medical and recreational. Stupid 120 Billion lost in productivity non sense….
The only reason we have drug testing is due weak minded individuals with no self-control or impulse control. I will never agree with any recreational use of mind-altering substances and these politicians passing it inactive is supporting recreational use that’s the incompetent working with the incompetent. Someone who lacks basic self control and can’t stay away from these mind-altering substances should be locked up to avoid interfering with the constructive parts of society.
Wrong its none of the companiesbusiness as long as you don’t show up to work high. I’m not a user i must add. This is my personal problem with the testing, specifically blood or saliva testing. We are at the mercy of not only the lab but also the person that fills out the paperwork. We have rights to protect our dna from being taken and pocessed and stored in databases without being charged for a crime. Where are our protections from these plantations.
No victim no crime…. none of your business.
The swab test is better suited for employers as it will detect drug use on the job and not just metabolites from personal time use of THC.
What a person does off the job is THEIR BUISNESS and not the employers.
This should be the focus of employers and not the UA test which intrudes into a person’s private life.
Rejoice with the truth! Repent and be saved or be crushed as pharaohs army was under the weight of the Red Sea
FREE MARIJUANA VS CIGARS, ALCOHOL, DIALYSIS PATIENTS DIED!
anyone else notice that poorly rolled joint?
I have a photo of a big marijuana plant in my office so when I ask if they smoke and they say yes I DON’T hire them and I just say they don’t Qualify for the position
Hate when they say drugs or alcohol tf alcohol is a drug…
Just cheat. These tests can be beat.
employers need to stop digging their nose in peoples privacy!!whatever happens at home is nobodies business
She obviously doesn’t understand UA testing for marijuana.
There are 2 tests performed which check for metabolites.
The initial test and conformation test.
Look at the SAMSHA guidlines:
The initial test cutoff for THC is 50 ng/ml any result at or above that is a positive.
The conformation test is 15 ng/ ml.
This means incidental contact with THC such as a lotion or CBD concentrate can produce a positive result.
Now look at the standard for METH:
The initial test is 500 ng/ml
And the conformation test is 250 ng/ml.
So if I were to do meth and an employer does a UA and the conformation test says 249 mg/ml that means I didn’t do meth.
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
This unfair standard for THC snares many users and is nothing more than a "witch hunt"
Now look at the Morphine test standards:
The standard for morphine is even more shocking: 2000 ng/ml For both initial and conformation tests.
The human body does not produce meth or morphine.
See the problem here:
Employers ignore the more dangerous drugs and focus on THC.
Incidently since THC is a schedule 1 substance employers can opt out of the initial test and go straight to the conformation test EXCEPT for DOT testing which follows SAMSHA guidlines.
So if you want to use THC get a job driving a SEMI or be an Airline pilot. The test standards are loser than let’s say a factory or office job.
Stop testing WORKERS of USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸!
oh its OK to take oxy wtf a drug that can kill you and as long long term affects like withdraw and mood swing that can lead to stafty problems but a plant that will help me sleep and come in to work on time and fit for work with out acks and pain but I can get drunk come in hung over or just call off smfh she sounds so stupid