Philadelphia: Mayor Signs Law Prohibiting Pre-Employment Drug Screening for Cannabis

The measure, Bill No.

Armentano said: “Suspicionless marijuana testing in the workplace, such as pre-employment drug screening, is not now, nor has it ever been, an evidence-based policy.

A study published in November in the journal Occupational Medicine of 136,000 employees in various occupations identified “no association between past-year cannabis use and work-related injury” for employees in any occupation, including those who worked in high injury risk occupations.

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