Drug Testing: Tech Firms Adopt 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Stance on Cannabis Use
Your boss may not care if you smoke weed when you’re not at work. But then again, you might get fired.
While marijuana is now legal after the passage of Proposition 64, Northern California businesses are taking widely different approaches to testing to see if you use the drug.
If you design computer chips at Intel or web pages at Google, you won’t be tested. But if you drive a Samtrans bus or operate a crane for a construction company, you will be.
At UC Berkeley, professors aren’t tested, but campus police officers are. The network company Cisco Systems doesn’t test; the construction company Cisco does.
In many ways it’s a digital divide, with zero-tolerance for many blue-collar workers and a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy among tech-savvy cubicle dwellers. And as marijuana is about to become more bountiful in the Golden State, the gap between increased toughness and greater acceptance...
This marijuana news is brought to you by 420 Intel. For the latest breaking cannabis industry news, subscribe to the 420 Intel newsletter. If you'd like to promote your product or service in this area after every article, contact us.
Follow us on Instagram
Connect with us on Linkedin