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this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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That implies that drug use in general would severly negatively impact your work performance.
And thats simply not the case. John smoking a joint before dinner and partying on MDMA one Saturday in a month, will not make him a worse employee than Jim, who takes no illegalized drugs, but is consistently sleep deprived and over caffeinated.
Drug tests don't test for current intoxication. They test for drug consumption in the past few days, or in the case of weed, past few weeks. So even for heavy machinery or other typical cases where current intoxication is not acceptable, they test for the wrong thing. Finally it is extremely inconsistent. If you have a opiod prescription, you are allowed to drive cars, while the medication is working if the impairment isn't too strong . But it impairs you in the same way like recreational opiod use would. So the same impairment is perfectly acceptable in one case, and a reason for losing your licencse and possible criminal charges in the other.
Often because those are the most accessible/cheap tests. More accurate ones usually require blood analysis, which is far more convoluted, expensive, and does carry some health risks for the one subjected to them.
As for prescriptions, in many countries they do put a restriction on driving (or at least an advisory, combined with a potential DUI if you're caught driving while under the influence of said medication).