As a growing number of states legalize marijuana, employers are rethinking their testing policies. NBC News’ Jacob Ward takes us to Michigan, where a car part manufacturer that quit screening applicants for marijuana use saw a boost in applications.
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Smart move
I love how Alcohol kills more yet its commercialized
I LOVE how people who come to work with a hangover from a night of drinking aren’t reliable until some time after 12pm
Cannabis has NEVERE killed anyone.
😂 I laugh because people really believe that legalizing marijuana will change the result of a DUI. Good luck with that. ✌
@Anunnaki Gold
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/327126#health-risks
Who REALLY WANTS TO WORK WITH drug addicts ?? Keep your cash locked in the trunk of your car. I hate drug addicts.
Frankly , the companies insurance rate has to go up. Drug addicts working around all that machinery . How does that program work when it comes to workman’s comp ??
Prolly more fake news dont trusk commies
you misspelled commies
@John Wilharm sorry
This is gonna cause a lot of divorces. Lots of folks don’t want that in the house with the kids.
first of all its already legal in the states they are talking about, second of all do you know how many families have been destroyed because of alcohol? And yet they dont screen for Alcohol. When was the last time you herd someone say, he hits me when he smokes a joint lol
@Ripper High She has been going all over this thread posting coo-coo anti-pot messages
Cannabis prohibition of any kind is pure tyranny! Boycott any company that insists on testing as a condition of employment.
Just legalize it for every state and get it over with already.
Good company I like this company should not test for drugs unless needed to because of an employee coming in on drugs and cost an accident they should not be interfering in our personal lives after hours.
I guess I’m going to work for Amazon good pay good health benefits and no marijuana test just the perfect job for me I know they’re quota is only to pack 100 items in boxes a hour but that ain’t s*** to me wonder what they would give me if I packed 400 in a hour.
Plus they line you up for whatever dream job that you want so theres room to improve in not only the company itself but higher educational careers as well. Its a perfect job for anyone that wants better!
Love the first lawsuit based on drug-induced accident. Someone will pay out the nose because their car or family failed because the insurance company declined.
Yawn. Loser
Anyone who has any experience with alcohol or pot knows that pot is certainly the lesser of a vice. We have been subjugated to decades of misinformation
Nah… they are finally ditching it because they want to hire people. It has always been an unnessicary obstical for employment. I have always found it odd that someone who drinks like a fish every night would be hired over someone who smokes weeb before bed so they can sleep.
It was used as a tool by employers so they could force their views onto their employees.
God is good
I knew the labor shortage would bring them to this point and it’s past time.
Its not going to help workplaces and definitely not going to help driving laws. So really look forward to getting pulled over, DUI’s are an different creature. Maybe why they are improving bus and railway travel, there is always Uber.
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Thank You…we need respect.
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@John Wilharm i wasnt even born when he was running whats wrong with u son
I worked for multiple companies that supposedly do drug testing (according to their policy manual), but they never actually do the testing because they know they’ll lose good employees that are difficult to replace. If someone can get drunk off the clock, then other people ought to be able to get high off the clock. Both are legal drugs.
Been a long time coming, should have been done long ago
40 years ago we’d say don’t just go to high school, go to school high🌲🧐
just to mention Amazon. speak how they need with; their workers head
Sleepy Joe need to get out of his cage and start legalizing marijuana. Even Harris is smoking weed when she is not working with you.
Just don’t be high at work man. And let them work!
Agree, unless they smoke a sativa which makes works fun but still guarantee top performance.
I think its should have drug test but if it only show Marijuana and they admit to like smoking they should he fine as long they don’t smoke before working.
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A beautiful display of the domino effect working for the good of the people and for cannabis.
I still can’t believe call centers are drug testing.
Awesome…
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They also have real and accurate marijuana breath analyzer that can accurately determine within a few hours or days, even weeks was the last time you smoked marijuana. As long as you are sober on the job. He hit it bullseye. Doesn’t care what they do on there days off.
And how!
Joe Biden coined the term Drug Czar after watching Reefer Madness. He thought government must do more to warn people about the dangerous plant and how it was a gateway drug to LSD.
Sure
@Dlo brown -ok 🙂
HOLY SMOKE ——”
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Republicans would have you doing thirty years hard time for a joint if they had it their way.
It’s about time , in jobs sometimes our hardest working use that excuse you have to get stoned to put up with all the stressful work … Now bring back some Marijuana legal smoking establishments for entertainment and USA be back in business. .
Insurance companies won’t cover accidents.
Literallyyyyy
what they do on there own time I don’t care?
This company knows how to get money
Doe’s heighten perception !
Biden hey Man works for me.
If only my country would even legalise it for rec use
And be high at work? Ok
What we need to do, we are at that point. We can’t find anyone here cause of weed.
Duh! Drug testing is unconstitutional to begin with.
So what…all State, Local, and Federal employees, uses Dope/Drugs too!
The big ones aren’t doing this though.
HIGH workers are GOOD workers???? INSANE!!!
Yah. How the heck am I supposed to pass a drug test when my apartment has turned into a cloud of marijuana smoke just from the smoke from my neighbors. I don’t even smoke…
Yesssss!!!! Smoke at work I love it
Let them shoot up on there on time dammit
The ‘drug testing’ scam was a child of Nancy Reagan’s failed ‘war on drugs’. I took a few with weed in my system, got hired and didn’t hear a word about it. You think those drug testing companies were actually testing every sample?? Hahaha, right.
They say ‘what workers do on the weekends…’ but in reality, workers are getting high before their shifts. Seen too many near deadly forklift and warehouse accidents because people came to work high, and endanger innocent peoples’ lives.
God bless this woman
This is ABSOLUTELY a step in the right direction. 👍
Good, now start hiring good people!
Cmon TEXAS WTF
I gotta b me…so I gotta be 🆓
Thank you.
😏 average number of Weekly applications went up from 1 to 6 after they stopped testing for Cannabis…
So, over 80% of people seeking employment like to relax and toke in their off time? 👀
Ya duh you don’t even know we smoke unless you smell it
Thanks god, you starting to look at professional skills, not personal habits
This is a very positve change.
employers are getting desperate
Too funny. In two of the most liberal states you can be fired for smoking weed OFF the job.
😁 Yay it’s a win! Win! 🎉 Woohoo!😃🍻
Cali wtf are you doing smh
Its about time.
Alcohol is worse
Still nurses will never be able to use it and work. ESP in Florida. I’m a nurse and have to go back in meds to go back to work but that’s ok!!???
In UK they unofficially do not test people because all management would fail . Its so funny that in America its the Employers doing the testing ! and not the workers .
Nice about time
Now your Mcdouble will take double to time to be prepared.
Thank you
Took them long enough! Jesus people are dumb. I blame the movie REEFER MADNESS.
A big step forward..we definitely need this in cali
I almost forgot about those tests
I remember drinking cranberry juice and borrowing my brothers pee 🤣😻😻
My job says they DT.. but there’s not one person that works here that doesn’t smoke,. And this is Texas. 😎
WHy? you idiots! you are going to put people’s lives at risk when people are stonned. The heavy equipments and machinery can fall on someone and people can die.
As they should. My company suffers greatly for this. They’ve fired great employees because of a dirty weed test. (Random tastings…. I know…)
Finally!!!
about time
I was shocked that my job doesn’t drug test and that was 8 years ago when I started
Not so fkn picky now are they?
To
I have more problems with alcohol abuse on the job. Always have
Say hello to workplace injuries if the workers are allowed to work high on drugs. If thier doing it at home, they will do it at work. Going to have to pay for extra insurance which will come out of employee pay somehow.
They need to do this with fentanyl I have many friends that can’t find jobs and could really use the money
To buy more fentanyl, I guess.
I wake up everyday healthy and sound without any pain, recovering so fast from my herpes disease damages after using a herbal supplements from Dr IGUDIA on YouTube.
Good, ppl smoke weed get over it!
Ppl are high on the job…your high if your taking blood pressure meds, xanax or oxycodone or beer and wine. So don’t just single cannabis I know my NP is on something he talks an move 100 miles per hour. So for the crappy pay and horrible bosses and pay ppl need to be on something. Those that doesn’t get high RUN OR WALK OR go HICKING.
I love her ❤️😁. The lady who came up with the idea
Oh well, already quit. 2 years of back pain finally gone & it beats popping 20 pills a day, n i ain’t sayin nothin bad for those who actually need it🙌💯❤
Good. It’s just weed guys…
So I can finally get a job now? Nice to know
Had they given weed away to applicants they would’ve had 500 applications per week.
“Radical Idea”?????? WTF
Rule still apply that if you were involved in an accident at work, the first thing you’ll be asked to do is to go down and get tested to see if you were under the influence at work.
You can still be fired/reprimanded if you are suspected to have caused the accident because you were intoxicated at work.
What I do on my personal time is my personal business, just because my urine test shows positive for marijuana that day does not mean I’m high on the job.
It’s either this or pay them more, but god knows yall billionaires cant do that.
Tesla doesn’t test for THC… just saying.
companies should be sued for testing you for something that legal in most of the country. you should have the right to travel to a legal state and partake. wake up America. the land of taxing everything