Workforce drug testing positivity rates continue to climb. BUT we have GOOD News that can counterbalance the BAD News of rising positivity rates. BAD NEWS The rate of workforce drug positivity hit a fourteen-year high in 2018, according to a new analysis released by Quest Diagnostics, the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services. Increases […]

If you, as an employer, have an employee with a medical marijuana card, you should be sure NOT to discontinue testing other employees in your workforce. A recent article in the Baltimore Sun reports that a Belcamp woman with a medical marijuana card told police that she sells the product she gets from an Aberdeen dispensary […]

If your neighbor engaged in an activity that resulted in injury, would you want to emulate it? We think not. So why do so many states want to legalize marijuana given Colorado’s experience? We have written before about Colorado’s experience with marijuana and its effects on traffic-related deaths. Now, this article highlights the fact that […]

72% of marijuana users drive high according to a recent study.  And, a survey of 790 adults seeking medical cannabis certification or re-certification in Michigan found that: Fifty-six percent of participants reported driving within two hours of using marijuana Fifty-one percent reported they drove while a “little high” Twenty-one percent reported driving while “very high” This […]

The highest marijuana positivity rates in the country are discussed in this Quest Blog Post. Click here However, data from Quest Diagnostics shows that the states with the highest positivity rates do not necessarily contain the cities or metropolitan areas with the highest marijuana positivity. Given these results, the stereotype of marijuana-use as solely a […]