During the first half of the 1980s, companies like Federal Express learned to fire employees on the basis of a single positive test despite a federal survey that found drug testing procedures to be in error at least twenty percent of the time.
There was a time not long ago when the idea of the government compelling any American citizen to take a random suspicionless drug test was unthinkable.
This transcript is excerpted from a longer conversation mostly concerned with the details of the emerging hemp industry, circa 1995. Most of this talk has
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For all you baseball fans out there… When it comes to COVID-19 the first question we need to ask ourselves is Who are we going
By Rick Cusick (Editor’s Note: DTN correspondent Rick Cusick is the former associate publisher, co-editor and ad director for High Time magazine. His popular column
Brain Scans Are Coming Up From Behind! Multiple companies announce a new era of drug testing that is designed to literally take your breath away…
In 2020 the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana laws is preparing to mark its 50th anniversary just as the U.S., is finally getting
[DTN] A Gallup Poll released at the end of 2019 reported that 66% of Americans now favor marijuana legalization. That’s up six points in the
The Godfather of American drug testing has died. I knew no one would notice. I knew years ago when I studied his career that Bud
When I first began to cover drug testing for a little alternative newsweekly twenty years ago, the tests were laughably flawed. Fifty percent false positives
What Happened to Georgia Southern’s Star Quarterback Was A Real Shit Show… I. When Georgia Southern starting quarterback Shai Werts was
If time is short (as in “I have a drug test the day after tomorrow”), or if you are a somewhat heavyset daily weed smoker
When I first started writing critically about drug testing in 2005 it was like shooting fish in a barrel. During the second Bush Administration
The drug test companies maintain that the reliability of their tests has improved dramatically over the last decade, but I’m not sure I believe that.
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