Alexa Miller Comments on Cannabis Testing Policies With Bloomberg Law

In “Legal Weed Drives Companies to Relax Their Drug Testing Policies,” Bloomberg Law spoke to labor and employment partner Alexa Miller about businesses navigating cannabis testing as the legalization of marijuana increases.

“There’s not a one-size-fits-all approach for employers,” explained Miller, who added that multi-state companies are especially having difficulty properly balancing workplace safety issues, recruitment, employee morale and growing individual protections for off-duty marijuana use. “The patchwork of varying state laws makes legal compliance difficult,” she said.

The California and Washington laws “are kind of banking on this testing option by making it available in the market,” Miller noted. “But there’s still a significant number of employers who are using” testing methods that don’t reliably detect marijuana-induced impairment, she said.

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