Talk:Cannabis drug testing

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Commentary from article

This section is inaccurate and the references are questionable at best. One reference is not even linkable anymore. NSAIDs are not attributable to false positives

Pasting here Sizeofint (talk) 06:50, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

References

Re testing. It is stated here; 'tests cannot determine an approximate degree of impairment' after mentioning the alcohol breathalyzer. What's this about impairment? To my knowledge, all tests on driving ability with cannabis use have shown improved driving skills; more care and attention to other road users, anticipation of the actions of others, and a slower average speed, and less aggressive driving. In what way is this impairment? Why are old myths being recycled in Wikipedia? The idea it impairs skills may be the 'opinion' of some politicians and other ignorance bigots, but scientific research has shown otherwise and it is important new knowledge is not smothered by the climate of fear and bigotry which still exists in many areas. By all means talk about measures being taken to prefect testing, but don't encourage it with repetition of ignorance. PetePassword (talk) 09:05, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Biological timeline

I have removed a bit of information about testing methods in "Biological timeline", without a reliable source per WP:RS and WP:MEDRS. If this information is correct, it should be referenced by reliable academic sources, not by online shops with zero recognizable medical expertise. GermanJoe (talk) 08:25, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Testing

The testing needs to be separated into two different types of testing: 1. Testing if a substance is cannabis 2. Testing if a person has taken cannabis — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.216.215.186 (talk) 04:42, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Drug Testing Laws in the American Workplace

Nine states and the District of Columbia (DC) have passed laws allowing the recreational use of marijuana while thirty one states and DC have passed laws allowing the medical use of marijuana (ProCon.org, 2018), however many prospective applicants are being turned away due to testing positive for marijuana use, even in states where they are recreationally legal. Many argue that marijuana is federally illegal overruling states that counter their laws to make the drug legal with the leading example being the 2015 court case Coats v. Dish Network that supports termination of employees (even with a medical marijuana card and after work hours usage). Because of this federal and state law disconnect, a solution in the right direction is exemplified in New York’s law to protect registered medical marijuana users by having the company and employee work together in an interactive process to establish whether accommodations can be made in support of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (Nagele-Piazza, 2018). Taking policies even further, a positive solution would be to exclude the testing of marijuana completely for work related purposes. Traces of alcohol are expelled from a person’s system after 24 hours depending on consumption, but marijuana can take over a month depending on consumption.

SBean14 (talk) 00:01, 20 November 2018 (UTC)SBean14

ProCon (n.d.). 33 Legal medical marijuana states and DC. ProCon.org. Retrieved from http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000881