There are many worries in marijuana policies. One major concern is that there is discrimination against workers who smoke weed. Most employers fear that those who do smoke pot and get hired will come back to work high.
Arizona is the only state in the country where a worker may not be fired if they test positive for THC during a drug test. In all other states, employers are legally allowed to fire anyone who tests positive for THC in their system, whether tests indicate a few days of consumption or a few months.
Some believe this is wrong because THC may remain in a person’s system for days or months, but they are only high for ninety minutes. Most smokers make it clear that they believe that those ninety minutes should be the time frame of concern rather than the probable off-work smoking.
The federal government has advised many corporations to drug test randomly. Over eighty percent of corporations have taken their advice so that they may enforce the anti-drug laws. Workers have also claimed that it is hypocritical not to test for alcohol, that one may use the night before, and to test for a substance that will stay in your body for longer and have a shorter high-time.
Private corporations were encouraged by the federal government to drug test their employees as a way enforcing anti-marijuana laws. Those who drug test their workers – 80 percent of all private US employers – seem oblivious to the hypocrisy of allowing workers to get drunk the night before, while treating off-the-job marijuana use as a fireable offense, even if it occurred days or weeks earlier.
The justification of these tests was with the argument that marijuana was – at the time – illegal, unlike alcohol. However, now that marijuana is becoming more widespread and legal, this justification is no longer valid.
There is also another factor that influences workplace drug testing: the influence of the drug-testing industry. “Drug-free workplaces” are often a label that holds no real value. In addition, the drug testing industries have convinced most private corporation owners that by not drug testing, many employers will be stoned on the job, and they will lose their full potential.
NORML, a blog, referred to this act as “an ignorant and self-defeating policy that no longer has any place in the American workplace.”
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