Talking Points: Drug Testing is Job-Based Discrimination

Drug testing does not protect public safety. It serves mainly to identify and ban cannabis consumers from the workforce, or sanction them at the workplace or schools.

Drug Testing primarily targets people who use marijuana, as the other drugs which are tested dissipate very quickly. Marijuana may remain detectable for up to 90 days — long after the effects are felt. Often people who have never done any drugs will fail a drug test as a result of false positives and inaccuracies within the testing industry itself.

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