In United States recorded a record number of workers consumed by cannabis

In the United States recorded a record number of workers who use cannabis. As part of the study, more than seven million analyzes were conducted, reports The Insider with reference to the report of the largest laboratory for drug testing in the country Quest Diagnostics.

According to Quest Diagnostics for 2020, the number of such employees has reached record indicators. So, the study of seven million tests showed that almost three percent (2.7 percent) of the total number of its participants, or 189 thousand people, use marijuana. Back in 2019, a similar study revealed 2.5 percent of these employees, and in 2016 – two percent.

Marijuana receives widespread distribution in the United States, since many states legalize her use. As a result, some employers began to skip the testing of workers to cannabis to qualify for a vacancy could have a greater number of people. However, there are areas of activity where checks are necessary: ​​for example, this is a public transport service or on the railway.

At the same time, the positive result of the test cannabis does not always fail to fail. In 2015, the Hotel Company Hospitality Ventures Management Group opened a hotel in Denver, where drugs were allowed to recreate. Therefore, the company’s management refused to conduct an appropriate test among employees. The chief personnel officer Susan M. Sanders stated that this decision was made in order to become an “attractive employer.”

Earlier it was reported that in the US state of Virginia will be allowed to marijuana in entertainment purposes. The bill accepted due to the fact that the democrats are now controlled by both chambers of the legislature.

/Media reports.