Like I don’t even think it’s a pharma lobby issue anymore. They’ll just acquire nascent marijuana companies. The people around Biden are just that ideological?
Edit: I think @Baoist has a point about this stealing media attention from Covid outbreak and Biden going with herd immunity
It's not pharma, it's prisons and cops.
It's all employers. Companies love drug testing because it's another barrier to keep people from switching jobs and makes it harder to get hired.
Actually many have dropped this requirement because they need people, and it was most an excuse to be racist
Nah, I've actually seen it come back. Remember that unless you make hundreds of thousands, no job actually "needs" you, and even then, a lot of jobs will just make less money than try to do the impossible task of changing a bureaucratic policy like waive drug testing. Workers "need" a job to eat. Companies "need" people because, all things equal, they can make more money. Once things aren't equal, i.e. the price or conditions of labor change, suddenly companies might not "need" you anymore.
I definitely think it varies more than that. No company needs you in particular, but some need lots of people and drug testing makes it harder to find employees (and means you might have to pay them more :porky-scared:)
Like the university I work for doesnt drug test, and the reason people always say is they’d have to fire half the faculty and most of the grad students lmao. I think only like 2 people in my lab would pass a drug test.
Academia is a bubble, and trust me, they could get rid of you all in an instant. I've never had a job that didn't require drug testing, and I've found that that's the case in pretty much every job that actually makes society run - think utilities, healthcare, public works, manufacturing. The things that people need to live.
We have a massive trucker shortage right now, and no one is even suggesting that we drop THC testing from the DoT. That should tell you where we're at.
No one's suggesting that because the "trucker shortage" is a scam. They've been doing it like clockwork for decades now.
What they did do is manage to get age restrictions lifted and some overtime regulations relaxed, which is all the trucking companies wanted.
they dont normally drug test for white collar jobs tho do they?
I just got one and they didn't, most service industry jobs don't either. Or of they do (usually event serving/"high class" service) it's only once then they give up.
The ones that love testing are the dangerous factory/construction jobs where you can get hurt and they have to pay out. They love it because having weed in your system basically makes any accident you're involved in your fault.