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

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    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.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        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.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      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.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        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.